IoVCom: Reliable Comprehensive Communication System for Internet of Vehicles

By 2020, around 25 billion “things” will be connected to the Internet for a better society using different technological systems. Vehicle users have better experience by collaborating the Internet of Things (IoT) and vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) architectures, and this emerging field is called the Internet of vehicles (IoV). Therefore, the IoV architecture will play an important role in the industry, research organization, and academics for various public and commercial applications. However, the IoV structure should ensure secure and efficient performance for vehicular communications, else an attacker may interfere in the system. In this article, we propose protected comprehensive data dissemination protocols (say IoVCom) based on one-way hash function and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) for the IoV structure. Next, we analyze security strengths of the IoVCom against various security attacks and discuss performance results in terms of communication overhead, computation time, storage cost, and energy consumption.