Workload Distribution for Supporting Anonymous Communications in Automotive Network

Automotive systems are widely upgraded with Internet-based applications. In these applications, we could be interested in preserving anonymity of communications and that senders (automotive system) could communicate in an anonymous way. For this purpose, we need to introduce the model of an anonymous communication system in automotive systems. The design of this system requires a workload model in the system. In this paper, we present how to distribute this workload in a Controller Area Network (CAN)-based automotive system so that anonymous communications are feasible at the same time we make sure sensitive jobs meet their deadlines. We proposed a systematic method in order to deal with incorporating anonymity service into the automotive system. The proposed system has been modelled and simulated using RTaW-Sim for a VOLVO XC90 car. The results show that this model can be applied successfully to automotive systems.

Anonymous communication systems, Privacy, Automotive systems, Cyber-physical systems security