Description
Date depot: 15 décembre 2023
Titre: Securing V2X communication exchanges for automated telematic control unit
Directeur de thèse:
Didier VERNA (LRE)
Encadrant :
Badis HAMMI (SAMOVAR)
Encadrante :
Ghada GHARBI (LRE)
Domaine scientifique: Sciences et technologies de l'information et de la communication
Thématique CNRS : Systèmes et réseaux
Resumé: Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV) have become a prominent technology for the future of passenger & freight mobility. As the number of connected vehicles is almost 200 million in 2023 and is expected to reach 367 million by 2027, the need for resilient and secured communication infrastructures is crucial. By exploiting various communication links such as vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), vehicle-to-network (V2N), usually clustered under the term V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything), connected vehicles offer multiple services and applications for a safer, more efficient, and more comfortable mobility.Connected vehicles interact with V2X applications deployed in cloud or edge servers for multiple functionalities such as data offloading, remote monitoring and diagnostics, software updates, and so on. To support these functionalities, they are equipped with a Telematic Control Unit (TCU) which represents the main vehicle gateway between the in-vehicle network and external entities. Current TCUs integrate multiple radio technologies such as cellular network (4G/5G), C-V2X, Wi-Fi and can be extended with other bearers such as satellite communication. Being the main component from which data packets are going in and out from the vehicle, it is important to ensure that the TCU can keep a safe and secured behaviour against potential attacks from external entities. Among potential attacks, we can denote GNSS jamming and spoofing, network flooding, data messages corruption.In this work, we focus on securing the information exchange between vehicular TCU and backend servers from the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and the service providers. Given the vulnerabilities of technologies used for V2X communication, it is very likely that a TCU can be attacked, potentially resulting into severe consequences on the on-board vehicle equipment if timely detection and countermeasures are not implemented.
Doctorant.e: Sghaier Khaoula