Dear Sharma,

The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) consists of vehicles that communicate with each other and with public networks through V2V (vehicle-to-vehicle), V2I (vehicle to-infrastructure) and V2P (vehicle-to-pedestrian) interactions, which enables both the collection and the real-time sharing of critical information about the condition on the road network.

In following article, They explore the concept of the Social Internet of Vehicles (SIoV), a network that enables social interactions both among vehicles and among drivers.

They discuss technologies and components of the SIoV, possible applications and issues of security, privacy and trust that are likely to arise.

www.mdpi.com/2224-2708/5/1/3/pdf

or

Social Internet of Vehicles for Smart Cities - MDPI.com

•  please reply me regarding security gaps .
• previous technology and current technology used.

The term IoV covers lot of ground that has been addressed, and continues to be addressed, for security vulnerabilities. I'm not sure that one should expect the security aspects to be significantly different for IoV than they are when applied to those same networks in other situations.

For instance, if you do a search on V2V comms, you will find familiar 802.11 solutions offered. Here I'm referring to the short-range, real time "tactical" communications, between cars that are in close proximity..Check out IEEE 802.11p, for example. These V2V comms may operate at layer 2, and therefore MACsec solutions, like 802.1ae and 802.1x, would seem a good bet.

V2I, or even V2V between distant vehicles, will instead require something at layer 3 and above, since now cars would be communicating with distant hosts, perhaps even in a client-server scenario. Much like web browsing. Or like two computers that are far apart, communicating using IP..So the choices would involve, most likely, TLS (Transport Layer Security) or possibly IPsec.

There are vulnerabilities at these network layers that have been studied for many years. I think this is where you should start. Define the flavor of V2V or V2I you are interested in, see what technologies apply, and then investigate the security mechanisms that already exist, and are being developed currently, for that type of network.

No doubt, rapid mobility will present its own unique problems, which should make the work interesting. I think this would affect your V2V communications security more so than V2I. The mobility issues with V2I will be managed at layer 2, but the end to end links are going to be controlled at higher layers.

Previous research in IoV can be the framework proposed by Pacheco et al. (2016). They proposed an IoT Security Development Framework (ISDF) for building trustworthy Smart car services. The ISDF enables developers to consider security issues at all IoT layers and integrates security algorithms with the functions and services offered in each layer rather than considering security in an ad-hoc and after thought manner.

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7745481/

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