Securisation des VANETs par la methode de reputation des noeuds

Vehicular ad-hoc network is a specific type of Mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) that provides communication between nearby vehicles and nearby roadside equipments. This communication provides several advantages. The first one is to increase road safety. The second one is the improvement of the driving experience. Road safety is ensured by applications category called "safety applications". The second category includes comfort applications of road users, such as access to an Internet connection during the trip, downloading multimedia content, online and network gaming, tool payment services. The third category includes remote maintenance applications. All these applications require efficient secured communication. This constraint is particularly important for safety applications, as the information transmitted by these applications can lead to drivers' behavior changing and caused catastrophic situations such as cars' accidents.;In recent years, several studies have been conducted, both in the automotive industry and universities or government researches' institutions to secure VANETs. From all these researches several VANETS' security methods have emerged, including the public/private key cryptographic methods, communication protocols' security methods, certificate revocation methods, reputation methods and so one. The reputation method is used to check information such as speed, acceleration, location, transmission range, direction, etc. To prevent attacks from malicious nodes that would lie about the variables that they are publishing to mislead motorists' behavior and cause cars' accidents or traffic jam on certain stretches of road. That is why the objective of our work is to provide hosts nodes with a reputation system to check different variables published by transmitting nodes. This analysis allows filtering nodes that publish false information about their geographical position, speed or acceleration. This information is important because, for the majority of safety applications, the host node relies on them and the motorist will react considering them. Our system performs tests on the information received to make sure that they are consistent with the expected parameters. These parameters are given by observations thanks to sensors, GPS receivers and vehicles' communication equipments on board. Our first contribution in this work is the design of a filter system that removes all messages whose variables are erroneous and thus to detect and eject potential adversaries out of the network. Our second contribution is to provide our system with a capacity of rehabilitation of nodes that were previously regarded as adversaries who now behave in an exemplary manner. Our third contribution is the establishment of a two-tier system, a first binary level and a second level which introduces flexibility and allows users to customize them during the implementation. Our fourth contribution is to be able to modify the AODV protocol in NS-2 simulator to test our reputation system for realistic simulations.;Keywords: Security, vehicular ad hoc networks, reputation.