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Dear Colleagues,

After many years of development, techniques in computing and security have caused profound societal and financial effects. With the amount of data rapidly increasing, traditional methods can no longer guarantee efficiency. Providing strong and effective methods to ensure the safety, efficiency, and security of design and implementation is becoming urgent, both in the academy and industry. With the emergence of many applications, it is challenging for the current method to deal with such data effectively and safely. In particular, it is urgent to explore and exploit new technologies to collect, process, analyze, and apply such big data. Moreover, there are still many open problems in this area that need to be studied more deeply. Therefore, research focusing on advanced techniques in computing and security can establish countless potential improvements.

The objective of this Special Issue is to attract the latest research results dedicated to computing and security. This Special Issue will bring leading researchers and developers from both academia and industry together, presenting their novel research on intelligent computing and cyber security. The submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and will be selected based on the quality and relevance to the main themes of this Special Issue.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Interconnection networks;
Sensor, wireless, and RFID systems;
Network-on-chip architectures;
Resource allocation and management;
Distributed computing;
Network routing and traffic control;
Operating systems for parallel/distributed systems;
Software engineering for parallel/distributed systems;
Generalized functional safety;
Cloud security;
Intrusion detection;
Data provenance;
Cyberscience and engineering.

Prof. Dr. Jie Li
Dr. Xianfu Chen
Prof. Dr. Lei Shi
Dr. Yangjie Cao
Dr. Bo Zhang
Guest Editors

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18 pages, 936 KiB

Open AccessArticle

BPA: A Novel Blockchain-Based Privacy-Preserving Authentication Scheme for the Internet of Vehicles

by Jie Li, Yuanyuan Lin, Yibing Li, Yan Zhuang and Yangjie Cao

Electronics 2024, 13(10), 1901; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13101901 - 13 May 2024

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Abstract

The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) connects an isolated individual on the road to share information, which can improve traffic efficiency. However, the promotion of information sharing brings the critical security issues of identity authentication, followed by privacy protection issues in the authentication process in the IoV. In this study, we designed a blockchain-based conditional privacy-preserving authentication scheme for the IoV (BPA). Our scheme implements zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) to verify the identities of vehicles, which moves the authentication process down to the Roadside Units (RSUs) and achieves decentralized authentication at the edge nodes. Moreover, blockchain technology is utilized to synchronize a consistent ledger across all RSUs for recording and disseminating vehicle authentication states, which enhances the overall authentication process efficiency. We provide a theoretical analysis asserting that the BPA ensures enhanced security and effectively protects the privacy of all participating vehicles. Experimental evaluations confirm that our scheme outperforms existing solutions in terms of the computational and communication overhead. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Techniques in Computing and Security, 2nd Edition)

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