A Novel Cybersecurity Architecture for IoV Communication

The growth of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) has brought out the need for secure data transfer between devices that are connected to the vehicle network. Internet of Vehicles (IoV) offers the ability to AVs in order to connect wirelessly not only to each other but to a variety of devices and entities that may use the same network. This ability for interconnection and the need for data exchange from the in-vehicle parts make the self-driving vehicle systems vulnerable to a variety of attacks that can be performed by a malicious user. This paper presents a secure architectural solution for data transfer and storage between data generated from in-vehicle components and cloud data management portal. The toolset for the data transfer includes: MQTT, LENSES.io, Apache KAFKA, MongoDB and Flask whereas, the tools and mechanisms which are used for cyber security are : KEYCLOAK, CLOUDFLARE, SNORT, NGINX and HASHING for integrity. The experiments conducted highlighted the performance of the solution regarding cyber security and revealed its potential for wider adoption.