Isabel Wagner - Measuring Privacy in Vehicular Networks
Details
The July 5th meet up is going to be presented by Isabel Wagner
Abstract:
Vehicular communication plays a key role in near-future automotive transport, promising features such as increased traffic safety, intersection collision avoidance, and wireless software updates. To realize these features, vehicles communicate with each other and transmit sensitive data – often without encryption – for example their location, speed, and heading. This information can be used to track vehicles and their drivers on a large scale, which raises privacy concerns. These privacy issues are well recognized, and many approaches have been proposed to protect privacy. For example, vehicles are often assumed to have a pool of pseudonyms in addition to a long-term identifier, and different schemes have been proposed to change pseudonyms in a privacy-preserving way without compromising safety and accountability.
This talk will introduce vehicular communications technology and its use cases, with a particular focus on privacy protections, highlighting current research on methods to compare the effectiveness of privacy protections. The talk will finish with an overview of how Docker containers and the grid computing platform Boinc have been used in this research project.
Before/After the Meetup:
Isabel Wagner is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science (Cybersecurity) at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK. Her research activities are focused on questions regarding privacy and privacy-enhancing technologies, particularly on metrics to quantify the effectiveness of privacy protection mechanisms, as well as on privacy-enhancing technologies in smart cities, genomics, vehicular networks, and smart grids. She is also interested in bio-inspired mechanisms for privacy.
Parking:
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