Internet DRAFT - draft-ietf-ipwave-vehicular-networking
draft-ietf-ipwave-vehicular-networking
IPWAVE Working Group J. Jeong, Ed.
Internet-Draft Sungkyunkwan University
Intended status: Informational 24 October 2022
Expires: 27 April 2023
IPv6 Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (IPWAVE): Problem
Statement and Use Cases
draft-ietf-ipwave-vehicular-networking-30
Abstract
This document discusses the problem statement and use cases of
IPv6-based vehicular networking for Intelligent Transportation
Systems (ITS). The main scenarios of vehicular communications are
vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), and
vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications. First, this document
explains use cases using V2V, V2I, and V2X networking. Next, for
IPv6-based vehicular networks, it makes a gap analysis of current
IPv6 protocols (e.g., IPv6 Neighbor Discovery, Mobility Management,
and Security & Privacy).
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Use Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.1. V2V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.2. V2I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.3. V2X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4. Vehicular Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.1. Vehicular Network Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.2. V2I-based Internetworking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.3. V2V-based Internetworking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5. Problem Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
5.1. Neighbor Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
5.1.1. Link Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
5.1.2. MAC Address Pseudonym . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
5.1.3. Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
5.2. Mobility Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
6.1. Security Threats in Neighbor Discovery . . . . . . . . . 32
6.2. Security Threats in Mobility Management . . . . . . . . . 34
6.3. Other Threats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
8.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
8.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Appendix A. Support of Multiple Radio Technologies for V2V . . . 50
Appendix B. Support of Multihop V2X Networking . . . . . . . . . 50
Appendix C. Support of Mobility Management for V2I . . . . . . . 52
Appendix D. Support of MTU Diversity for IP-based Vehicular
Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Appendix E. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Appendix F. Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
1. Introduction
Vehicular networking studies have mainly focused on improving road
safety and efficiency, and also enabling entertainment in vehicular
networks. To proliferate the use cases of vehicular networks,
several governments and private organizations have committed to
allocate dedicated spectrum for vehicular communications. The
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the US allocated wireless
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channels for Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC) [DSRC] in
the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) with the frequency band
of 5.850 - 5.925 GHz (i.e., 5.9 GHz band). In November 2020, the FCC
adjusted the lower 45 MHz (i.e., 5.850 - 5.895 GHz) of the 5.9 GHz
band for unlicensed use instead of DSRC-dedicated use
[FCC-ITS-Modification]. DSRC-based wireless communications can
support vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I),
and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) networking. The European Union (EU)
allocated radio spectrum for safety-related and non-safety-related
applications of ITS with the frequency band of 5.875 - 5.905 GHz, as
part of the Commission Decision 2008/671/EC [EU-2008-671-EC]. Most
other countries and regions in the world have adopted the 5.9 GHz
band for vehicular networks, though different countries use different
ways to divide the band into channels.
For direct inter-vehicular wireless connectivity, IEEE has amended
standard 802.11 (commonly known as Wi-Fi) to enable safe driving
services based on DSRC for the Wireless Access in Vehicular
Environments (WAVE) system. The Physical Layer (L1) and Data Link
Layer (L2) issues are addressed in IEEE 802.11p [IEEE-802.11p] for
the PHY and MAC of the DSRC, while IEEE 1609.2 [WAVE-1609.2] covers
security aspects, IEEE 1609.3 [WAVE-1609.3] defines related services
at network and transport layers, and IEEE 1609.4 [WAVE-1609.4]
specifies the multichannel operation. IEEE 802.11p was first a
separate amendment, but was later rolled into the base 802.11
standard (IEEE 802.11-2012) as IEEE 802.11 Outside the Context of a
Basic Service Set (OCB) in 2012 [IEEE-802.11-OCB].
3GPP has standardized Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X)
communications to support V2X in LTE mobile networks (called LTE V2X)
and V2X in 5G mobile networks (called 5G V2X) [TS-23.285-3GPP]
[TR-22.886-3GPP][TS-23.287-3GPP]. With C-V2X, vehicles can directly
communicate with each other without relay nodes (e.g., eNodeB in LTE
and gNodeB in 5G).
Along with these WAVE standards and C-V2X standards, regardless of a
wireless access technology under the IP stack of a vehicle, vehicular
networks can operate IP mobility with IPv6 [RFC8200] and Mobile IPv6
protocols (e.g., Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) [RFC6275], Proxy MIPv6 (PMIPv6)
[RFC5213], Distributed Mobility Management (DMM) [RFC7333], Network
Mobility (NEMO) [RFC3963], and Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP)
[I-D.ietf-lisp-rfc6830bis]. In addition, ISO has approved a standard
specifying the IPv6 network protocols and services to be used for
Communications Access for Land Mobiles (CALM)
[ISO-ITS-IPv6][ISO-ITS-IPv6-AMD1].
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This document describes use cases and a problem statement about
IPv6-based vehicular networking for ITS, which is named IPv6 Wireless
Access in Vehicular Environments (IPWAVE). First, it introduces the
use cases for using V2V, V2I, and V2X networking in ITS. Next, for
IPv6-based vehicular networks, it makes a gap analysis of current
IPv6 protocols (e.g., IPv6 Neighbor Discovery, Mobility Management,
and Security & Privacy) so that those protocols can be tailored to
IPv6-based vehicular networking. Thus, this document is intended to
motivate development of key protocols for IPWAVE.
2. Terminology
This document uses the terminology described in [RFC8691]. In
addition, the following terms are defined below:
* Context-Awareness: A vehicle can be aware of spatial-temporal
mobility information (e.g., position, speed, direction, and
acceleration/deceleration) of surrounding vehicles for both safety
and non-safety uses through sensing or communication [CASD].
* DMM: "Distributed Mobility Management" [RFC7333][RFC7429].
* Edge Computing Device (ECD): It is a computing device (or server)
at edge for vehicles and vulnerable road users. It co-locates
with or connects to an IP-RSU, which has a powerful computing
capability for different kinds of computing tasks, such as image
processing and classification.
* Edge Network (EN): It is an access network that has an IP-RSU for
wireless communication with other vehicles having an IP-OBU and
wired communication with other network devices (e.g., routers, IP-
RSUs, ECDs, servers, and MA). It may have a global navigation
satellite system (GNSS), such as Global Positioning System (GPS),
radio receiver for its position recognition and the localization
service for the sake of vehicles.
* IP-OBU: "Internet Protocol On-Board Unit": An IP-OBU denotes a
computer situated in a vehicle (e.g., car, bicycle, autobike,
motorcycle, and a similar one), which has a basic processing
ability and can be driven by a low-power CPU (e.g., ARM). It has
at least one IP interface that runs in IEEE 802.11-OCB and has an
"OBU" transceiver. Also, it may have an IP interface that runs in
Cellular V2X (C-V2X) [TS-23.285-3GPP]
[TR-22.886-3GPP][TS-23.287-3GPP]. It can play the role of a
router connecting multiple computers (or in-vehicle devices)
inside a vehicle. See the definition of the term "IP-OBU" in
[RFC8691].
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* IP-RSU: "IP Roadside Unit": An IP-RSU is situated along the road.
It has at least two distinct IP-enabled interfaces. The wireless
PHY/MAC layer of at least one of its IP-enabled interfaces is
configured to operate in 802.11-OCB mode. An IP-RSU communicates
with the IP-OBU over an 802.11 wireless link operating in OCB
mode. Also, it may have a third IP-enabled wireless interface
running in 3GPP C-V2X in addition to the IP-RSU defined in
[RFC8691]. An IP-RSU is similar to an Access Network Router
(ANR), defined in [RFC3753], and a Wireless Termination Point
(WTP), defined in [RFC5415]. See the definition of the term "IP-
RSU" in [RFC8691].
* LiDAR: "Light Detection and Ranging". It is a scanning device to
measure a distance to an object by emitting pulsed laser light and
measuring the reflected pulsed light.
* Mobility Anchor (MA): A node that maintains IPv6 addresses and
mobility information of vehicles in a road network to support
their IPv6 address autoconfiguration and mobility management with
a binding table. An MA has End-to-End (E2E) connections (e.g.,
tunnels) with IP-RSUs under its control for the address
autoconfiguration and mobility management of the vehicles. This
MA is similar to a Local Mobility Anchor (LMA) in PMIPv6 [RFC5213]
for network-based mobility management.
* OCB: "Outside the Context of a Basic Service Set - BSS". It is a
mode of operation in which a Station (STA) is not a member of a
BSS and does not utilize IEEE Std 802.11 authentication,
association, or data confidentiality [IEEE-802.11-OCB].
* 802.11-OCB: It refers to the mode specified in IEEE Std
802.11-2016 [IEEE-802.11-OCB] when the MIB attribute
dot11OCBActivited is 'true'.
* Platooning: Moving vehicles can be grouped together to reduce air-
resistance for energy efficiency and reduce the number of drivers
such that only the leading vehicle has a driver, and the other
vehicles are autonomous vehicles without a driver and closely
follow the leading vehicle [Truck-Platooning].
* Traffic Control Center (TCC): A system that manages road
infrastructure nodes (e.g., IP-RSUs, MAs, traffic signals, and
loop detectors), and also maintains vehicular traffic statistics
(e.g., average vehicle speed and vehicle inter-arrival time per
road segment) and vehicle information (e.g., a vehicle's
identifier, position, direction, speed, and trajectory as a
navigation path). TCC is part of a vehicular cloud for vehicular
networks.
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* Urban Air Mobility (UAM): It refers to using lower-altitude
aircraft to transport passengers or cargo in urban and suburban
areas. The carriers used for UAM can be manned or unmanned
vehicles, which can include traditional helicopters, electrical
vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft (eVTOL), and unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAV).
* Vehicle: A Vehicle in this document is a node that has an IP-OBU
for wireless communication with other vehicles and IP-RSUs. It
has a GNSS radio navigation receiver for efficient navigation.
Any device having an IP-OBU and a GNSS receiver (e.g., smartphone
and tablet PC) can be regarded as a vehicle in this document.
* Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET): A network that consists of
vehicles interconnected by wireless communication. Two vehicles
in a VANET can communicate with each other using other vehicles as
relays even where they are out of one-hop wireless communication
range.
* Vehicular Cloud: A cloud infrastructure for vehicular networks,
having compute nodes, storage nodes, and network forwarding
elements (e.g., switch and router).
* V2D: "Vehicle to Device". It is the wireless communication
between a vehicle and a device (e.g., smartphone and IoT device).
* V2P: "Vehicle to Pedestrian". It is the wireless communication
between a vehicle and a pedestrian's device (e.g., smartphone and
IoT device).
* V2I2V: "Vehicle to Infrastructure to Vehicle". It is the wireless
communication between a vehicle and another vehicle via an
infrastructure node (e.g., IP-RSU).
* V2I2X: "Vehicle to Infrastructure to Everything". It is the
wireless communication between a vehicle and another entity (e.g.,
vehicle, smartphone, and IoT device) via an infrastructure node
(e.g., IP-RSU).
* V2X: "Vehicle to Everything". It is the wireless communication
between a vehicle and any entity (e.g., vehicle, infrastructure
node, smartphone, and IoT device), including V2V, V2I, and V2D.
* VMM: "Vehicular Mobility Management". It is an IPv6-based
mobility management for vehicular networks.
* VND: "Vehicular Neighbor Discovery". It is an IPv6 ND extension
for vehicular networks.
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* VSP: "Vehicular Security and Privacy". It is an IPv6-based
security and privacy term for vehicular networks.
* WAVE: "Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments" [WAVE-1609.0].
3. Use Cases
This section explains use cases of V2V, V2I, and V2X networking. The
use cases of the V2X networking exclude the ones of the V2V and V2I
networking, but include Vehicle-to-Pedestrian (V2P) and Vehicle-to-
Device (V2D).
IP is widely used among popular end-user devices (e.g., smartphone
and tablet) in the Internet. Applications (e.g., navigator
application) for those devices can be extended such that the V2V use
cases in this section can work with IPv6 as a network layer protocol
and IEEE 802.11-OCB as a link layer protocol. In addition, IPv6
security needs to be extended to support those V2V use cases in a
safe, secure, privacy-preserving way.
The use cases presented in this section serve as the description and
motivation for the need to augment IPv6 and its protocols to
facilitate "Vehicular IPv6". Section 5 summarizes the overall
problem statement and IPv6 requirements. Note that the adjective
"Vehicular" in this document is used to represent extensions of
existing protocols such as IPv6 Neighbor Discovery, IPv6 Mobility
Management (e.g., PMIPv6 [RFC5213] and DMM [RFC7429]), and IPv6
Security and Privacy Mechanisms rather than new "vehicular-specific"
functions.
3.1. V2V
The use cases of V2V networking discussed in this section include
* Context-aware navigation for safe driving and collision avoidance;
* Collision avoidance service of end systems of Urban Air Mobility
(UAM);
* Cooperative adaptive cruise control in a roadway;
* Platooning in a highway;
* Cooperative environment sensing.
The above use cases are examples for using V2V networking, which can
be extended to other terrestrial vehicles, river/sea ships, railed
vehicles, or UAM end systems.
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Context-Aware Safety Driving (CASD) navigator [CASD] can help drivers
to drive safely by alerting them to dangerous obstacles and
situations. That is, a CASD navigator displays obstacles or
neighboring vehicles relevant to possible collisions in real-time
through V2V networking. CASD provides vehicles with a class-based
automatic safety action plan, which considers three situations,
namely, the Line-of-Sight unsafe, Non-Line-of-Sight unsafe, and safe
situations. This action plan can be put into action among multiple
vehicles using V2V networking.
A collision avoidance service of UAM end systems in air can be
envisioned as a use case in air vehicular environments
[I-D.templin-ipwave-uam-its]. This use case is similar to the
context-aware navigator for terrestrial vehicles. Through V2V
coordination, those UAM end systems (e.g., drones) can avoid a
dangerous situation (e.g., collision) in three-dimensional space
rather than two-dimensional space for terrestrial vehicles. Also,
UAM end systems (e.g., flying car) with only a few meters off the
ground can communicate with terrestrial vehicles with wireless
communication technologies (e.g., DSRC, LTE, and C-V2X). Thus, V2V
means any vehicle to any vehicle, whether the vehicles are ground-
level or not.
Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) [CA-Cruise-Control] helps
individual vehicles to adapt their speed autonomously through V2V
communication among vehicles according to the mobility of their
predecessor and successor vehicles in an urban roadway or a highway.
Thus, CACC can help adjacent vehicles to efficiently adjust their
speed in an interactive way through V2V networking in order to avoid
a collision.
Platooning [Truck-Platooning] allows a series (or group) of vehicles
(e.g., trucks) to follow each other very closely. Trucks can use V2V
communication in addition to forward sensors in order to maintain
constant clearance between two consecutive vehicles at very short
gaps (from 3 meters to 10 meters). Platooning can maximize the
throughput of vehicular traffic in a highway and reduce the gas
consumption because the leading vehicle can help the following
vehicles to experience less air resistance.
Cooperative-environment-sensing use cases suggest that vehicles can
share environmental information (e.g., air pollution, hazards/
obstacles, slippery areas by snow or rain, road accidents, traffic
congestion, and driving behaviors of neighboring vehicles) from
various vehicle-mounted sensors, such as radars, LiDARs, and cameras,
with other vehicles and pedestrians. [Automotive-Sensing] introduces
millimeter-wave vehicular communication for massive automotive
sensing. A lot of data can be generated by those sensors, and these
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data typically need to be routed to different destinations. In
addition, from the perspective of driverless vehicles, it is expected
that driverless vehicles can be mixed with driver-operated vehicles.
Through cooperative environment sensing, driver-operated vehicles can
use environmental information sensed by driverless vehicles for
better interaction with the other vehicles and environment. Vehicles
can also share their intended maneuvering information (e.g., lane
change, speed change, ramp in-and-out, cut-in, and abrupt braking)
with neighboring vehicles. Thus, this information sharing can help
the vehicles behave as more efficient traffic flows and minimize
unnecessary acceleration and deceleration to achieve the best ride
comfort.
To support applications of these V2V use cases, the required
functions of IPv6 include IPv6-based packet exchange in both control
and data planes, and secure, safe communication between two vehicles.
For the support of V2V under multiple radio technologies (e.g., DSRC
and 5G V2X), refer to Appendix A.
3.2. V2I
The use cases of V2I networking discussed in this section include
* Navigation service;
* Energy-efficient speed recommendation service;
* Accident notification service;
* Electric vehicle (EV) charging service;
* UAM navigation service with efficient battery charging.
A navigation service, for example, the Self-Adaptive Interactive
Navigation Tool (SAINT) [SAINT], using V2I networking interacts with
a TCC for the large-scale/long-range road traffic optimization and
can guide individual vehicles along appropriate navigation paths in
real time. The enhanced version of SAINT [SAINTplus] can give fast
moving paths to emergency vehicles (e.g., ambulance and fire engine)
to let them reach an accident spot while redirecting other vehicles
near the accident spot into efficient detour paths.
Either a TCC or an ECD can recommend an energy-efficient speed to a
vehicle that depends on its traffic environment and traffic signal
scheduling [SignalGuru]. For example, when a vehicle approaches an
intersection area and a red traffic light for the vehicle becomes
turned on, it needs to reduce its speed to save fuel consumption. In
this case, either a TCC or an ECD, which has the up-to-date
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trajectory of the vehicle and the traffic light schedule, can notify
the vehicle of an appropriate speed for fuel efficiency.
[Fuel-Efficient] studies fuel-efficient route and speed plans for
platooned trucks.
The emergency communication between accident vehicles (or emergency
vehicles) and a TCC can be performed via either IP-RSU, 4G-LTE or 5G
networks. The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet)
[FirstNet] is provided by the US government to establish, operate,
and maintain an interoperable public safety broadband network for
safety and security network services, e.g., emergency calls. The
construction of the nationwide FirstNet network requires each state
in the US to have a Radio Access Network (RAN) that will connect to
the FirstNet's network core. The current RAN is mainly constructed
using 4G-LTE for the communication between a vehicle and an
infrastructure node (i.e., V2I) [FirstNet-Report], but it is expected
that DSRC-based vehicular networks [DSRC] will be available for V2I
and V2V in the near future. An equivalent project in Europe is
called Public Safety Communications Europe (PSCE) [PSCE], which is
developing a network for emergency communications.
An EV charging service with V2I can facilitate the efficient battery
charging of EVs. In the case where an EV charging station is
connected to an IP-RSU, an EV can be guided toward the deck of the EV
charging station or be notified that the charging station is out of
service through a battery charging server connected to the IP-RSU.
In addition to this EV charging service, other value-added services
(e.g., firmware/software update over-the-air and media streaming) can
be provided to an EV while it is charging its battery at the EV
charging station. For a UAM navigation service, an efficient battery
charging plan can improve the battery charging schedule of UAM end
systems (e.g., drone) for long-distance flying [CBDN]. For this
battery charging schedule, a UAM end system can communicate with a
cloud server via an infrastructure node (e.g., IP-RSU). This cloud
server can coordinate the battery charging schedules of multiple UAM
end systems for their efficient navigation path, considering flight
time from their current position to a battery charging station,
waiting time in a waiting queue at the station, and battery charging
time at the station.
In some scenarios such as vehicles moving in highways or staying in
parking lots, a V2V2I network is necessary for vehicles to access the
Internet since some vehicles may not be covered by an IP-RSU. For
those vehicles, a few relay vehicles can help to build the Internet
access. For the nested NEMO described in [RFC4888], hosts inside a
vehicle shown in Figure 3 for the case of V2V2I may have the same
issue in the nested NEMO scenario.
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To better support these use cases, the existing IPv6 protocol must be
augmented either through protocol changes or by including a new
adaptation layer in the architecture that efficiently maps IPv6 to a
diversity of link layer technologies. Augmentation is necessary to
support wireless multihop V2I communications in a highway where RSUs
are sparsely deployed, so a vehicle can reach the wireless coverage
of an IP-RSU through the multihop data forwarding of intermediate
vehicles as packet forwarders. Thus, IPv6 needs to be extended for
multihop V2I communications.
To support applications of these V2I use cases, the required
functions of IPv6 include IPv6 communication enablement with
neighborhood discovery and IPv6 address management, reachability with
adapted network models and routing methods, transport-layer session
continuity, and secure, safe communication between a vehicle and an
infrastructure node (e.g., IP-RSU) in the vehicular network.
3.3. V2X
The use case of V2X networking discussed in this section is for a
vulnerable road user (VRU) (e.g., pedestrian and cyclist) protection
service. Note that the application area of this use case is
currently limited to a specific environment, such as construction
sites, plants, and factories, since not every VRU (e.g., children) in
a public area (e.g., streets) is equipped with a smart device (e.g.,
smartphone, smart watch, and tablet).
A VRU protection service, such as Safety-Aware Navigation Application
(SANA) [SANA], using V2I2P networking can reduce the collision of a
vehicle and a pedestrian carrying a smartphone equipped with a
network device for wireless communication (e.g., Wi-Fi, DSRC, 4G/5G
V2X, and BLE) with an IP-RSU. Vehicles and pedestrians can also
communicate with each other via an IP-RSU. An edge computing device
behind the IP-RSU can collect the mobility information from vehicles
and pedestrians, compute wireless communication scheduling for the
sake of them. This scheduling can save the battery of each
pedestrian's smartphone by allowing it to work in sleeping mode
before the communication with vehicles, considering their mobility.
The location information of a VRU from a smart device (e.g.,
smartphone) is multicasted only to the nearby vehicles. The true
identifiers of a VRU's smart device shall be protected, and only the
type of the VRU, such as pedestrian, cyclist, and scooter, is
disclosed to the nearby vehicles.
For Vehicle-to-Pedestrian (V2P), a vehicle can directly communicate
with a pedestrian's smartphone by V2X without IP-RSU relaying.
Light-weight mobile nodes such as bicycles may also communicate
directly with a vehicle for collision avoidance using V2V. Note that
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it is true that either a pedestrian or a cyclist may have a higher
risk of being hit by a vehicle if they are not with a smartphone in
the current setting. For this case, other human sensing technologies
(e.g., moving object detection in images and wireless signal-based
human movement detection [LIFS][DFC]) can be used to provide the
motion information of them to vehicles. A vehicle by V2V2I
networking can obtain the motion information of a VRU via an IP-RSU
that either employs or connects to a human sensing technology.
The existing IPv6 protocol must be augmented through protocol changes
in order to support wireless multihop V2X or V2I2X communications in
an urban road network where RSUs are deployed at intersections, so a
vehicle (or a pedestrian's smartphone) can reach the wireless
coverage of an IP-RSU through the multihop data forwarding of
intermediate vehicles (or pedestrians' smartphones) as packet
forwarders. Thus, IPv6 needs to be extended for multihop V2X or
V2I2X communications.
To support applications of these V2X use cases, the required
functions of IPv6 include IPv6-based packet exchange, transport-layer
session continuity, and secure, safe communication between a vehicle
and a pedestrian either directly or indirectly via an IP-RSU, and the
protection of identifiers of either a vehicle or smart device (such
as MAC address and IPv6 address), which is discussed in detail in
Section 6.3.
4. Vehicular Networks
This section describes the context for vehicular networks supporting
V2V, V2I, and V2X communications. It describes an internal network
within a vehicle or an edge network (called EN). It explains not
only the internetworking between the internal networks of a vehicle
and an EN via wireless links, but also the internetworking between
the internal networks of two vehicles via wireless links.
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Traffic Control Center in Vehicular Cloud
*******************************************
+-------------+ * *
|Correspondent| * +-----------------+ *
| Node |<->* | Mobility Anchor | *
+-------------+ * +-----------------+ *
* ^ *
* | *
* v *
*******************************************
^ ^ ^
| | |
| | |
v v v
+---------+ +---------+ +---------+
| IP-RSU1 |<--------->| IP-RSU2 |<--------->| IP-RSU3 |
+---------+ +---------+ +---------+
^ ^ ^
: : :
+-----------------+ +-----------------+ +-----------------+
| : V2I | | : V2I | | : V2I |
| v | | v | | v |
+--------+ | +--------+ | | +--------+ | | +--------+ |
|Vehicle1|===> |Vehicle2|===>| | |Vehicle3|===>| | |Vehicle4|===>|
+--------+<...>+--------+<........>+--------+ | | +--------+ |
V2V ^ V2V ^ | | ^ |
| : V2V | | : V2V | | : V2V |
| v | | v | | v |
| +--------+ | | +--------+ | | +--------+ |
| |Vehicle5|===> | | |Vehicle6|===>| | |Vehicle7|==>|
| +--------+ | | +--------+ | | +--------+ |
+-----------------+ +-----------------+ +-----------------+
Subnet1 Subnet2 Subnet3
(Prefix1) (Prefix2) (Prefix3)
<----> Wired Link <....> Wireless Link ===> Moving Direction
Figure 1: An Example Vehicular Network Architecture for V2I and V2V
4.1. Vehicular Network Architecture
Figure 1 shows an example vehicular network architecture for V2I and
V2V in a road network. The vehicular network architecture contains
vehicles (including IP-OBU), IP-RSUs, Mobility Anchor, Traffic
Control Center, and Vehicular Cloud as components. These components
are not mandatory, and they can be deployed into vehicular networks
in various ways. Some of them (e.g., Mobility Anchor, Traffic
Control Center, and Vehicular Cloud) may not be needed for the
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vehicular networks according to target use cases in Section 3.
Existing network architectures, such as the network architectures of
PMIPv6 [RFC5213], RPL (IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy
Networks) [RFC6550], and AERO/OMNI
[I-D.templin-6man-aero][I-D.templin-6man-omni], can be extended to a
vehicular network architecture for multihop V2V, V2I, and V2X, as
shown in Figure 1. Refer to Appendix B for the detailed discussion
on multihop V2X networking by RPL and OMNI. Also, refer to
Appendix A for the description of how OMNI is designed to support the
use of multiple radio technologies in V2X. Note that though AERO/
OMNI is not actually deployed in the industry, this AERO/OMNI is
mentioned as a possible approach for vehicular networks in this
document.
As shown in Figure 1, IP-RSUs as routers and vehicles with IP-OBU
have wireless media interfaces for VANET. The three IP-RSUs (IP-
RSU1, IP-RSU2, and IP-RSU3) are deployed in the road network and are
connected with each other through the wired networks (e.g.,
Ethernet). A Traffic Control Center (TCC) is connected to the
Vehicular Cloud for the management of IP-RSUs and vehicles in the
road network. A Mobility Anchor (MA) may be located in the TCC as a
mobility management controller. Vehicle2, Vehicle3, and Vehicle4 are
wirelessly connected to IP-RSU1, IP-RSU2, and IP-RSU3, respectively.
The three wireless networks of IP-RSU1, IP-RSU2, and IP-RSU3 can
belong to three different subnets (i.e., Subnet1, Subnet2, and
Subnet3), respectively. Those three subnets use three different
prefixes (i.e., Prefix1, Prefix2, and Prefix3).
Multiple vehicles under the coverage of an IP-RSU share a prefix just
as mobile nodes share a prefix of a Wi-Fi access point in a wireless
LAN. This is a natural characteristic in infrastructure-based
wireless networks. For example, in Figure 1, two vehicles (i.e.,
Vehicle2, and Vehicle5) can use Prefix 1 to configure their IPv6
global addresses for V2I communication. Alternatively, mobile nodes
can employ a "Bring-Your-Own-Addresses (BYOA)" (or "Bring-Your-Own-
Prefix (BYOP)") technique using their own IPv6 Unique Local Addresses
(ULAs) [RFC4193] over the wireless network.
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In wireless subnets in vehicular networks (e.g., Subnet1 and Subnet2
in Figure 1), vehicles can construct a connected VANET (with an
arbitrary graph topology) and can communicate with each other via V2V
communication. Vehicle1 can communicate with Vehicle2 via V2V
communication, and Vehicle2 can communicate with Vehicle3 via V2V
communication because they are within the wireless communication
range of each other. On the other hand, Vehicle3 can communicate
with Vehicle4 via the vehicular infrastructure (i.e., IP-RSU2 and IP-
RSU3) by employing V2I (i.e., V2I2V) communication because they are
not within the wireless communication range of each other.
As a basic definition for IPv6 packets transported over IEEE
802.11-OCB, [RFC8691] specifies several details, including Maximum
Transmission Unit (MTU), frame format, link-local address, address
mapping for unicast and multicast, stateless autoconfiguration, and
subnet structure.
An IPv6 mobility solution is needed for the guarantee of
communication continuity in vehicular networks so that a vehicle's
TCP session can be continued, or UDP packets can be delivered to a
vehicle as a destination without loss while it moves from an IP-RSU's
wireless coverage to another IP-RSU's wireless coverage. In
Figure 1, assuming that Vehicle2 has a TCP session (or a UDP session)
with a correspondent node in the vehicular cloud, Vehicle2 can move
from IP-RSU1's wireless coverage to IP-RSU2's wireless coverage. In
this case, a handover for Vehicle2 needs to be performed by either a
host-based mobility management scheme (e.g., MIPv6 [RFC6275]) or a
network-based mobility management scheme (e.g., PMIPv6 [RFC5213],
NEMO [RFC3963] [RFC4885] [RFC4888], and AERO
[I-D.templin-6man-aero]). This document describes issues in mobility
management for vehicular networks in Section 5.2. For improving TCP
session continuity or successful UDP packet delivery, the multi-path
TCP (MPTCP) [RFC8684] or QUIC protocol [RFC9000] can also be used.
IP-OBUs, however, may still experience more session time-out and re-
establishment procedures due to lossy connections among vehicles
caused by the high mobility dynamics of them.
4.2. V2I-based Internetworking
This section discusses the internetworking between a vehicle's
internal network (i.e., mobile network) and an EN's internal network
(i.e., fixed network) via V2I communication. The internal network of
a vehicle is nowadays constructed with Ethernet by many automotive
vendors [In-Car-Network]. Note that an EN can accommodate multiple
routers (or switches) and servers (e.g., ECDs, navigation server, and
DNS server) in its internal network.
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A vehicle's internal network often uses Ethernet to interconnect
Electronic Control Units (ECUs) in the vehicle. The internal network
can support Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to accommodate a driver's and
passenger's mobile devices (e.g., smartphone or tablet). The network
topology and subnetting depend on each vendor's network configuration
for a vehicle and an EN. It is reasonable to consider interactions
between the internal network of a vehicle and that of another vehicle
or an EN. Note that it is dangerous if the internal network of a
vehicle is controlled by a malicious party. These dangers can
include unauthorized driving control input and unauthorized driving
information disclosure to an unauthorized third party. A malicious
party can be a group of hackers, a criminal group, and a competitor
for industrial espionage or sabotage. To minimize this kind of risk,
an augmented identification and verification protocol, which has an
extra means, shall be implemented based on a basic identity
verification process. These extra means can be certificate-based,
biometric, credit-based, and one-time passcode (OTP) approaches in
addition to a used approach [RFC8002]. The parties of the
verification protocol can be from a built-in verification protocol in
the current vehicle, which is pre-installed by a vehicle vendor. The
parties can also be from any verification authorities that have the
database of authenticated users. The security properties provided by
a verification protocol can be identity-related information, such as
the genuineness of an identity, the authenticity of an identity, and
the ownership of an identity [RFC7427].
The augmented identification and verification protocol with extra
means can support security properties such as the identification and
verification of a vehicle, driver, and passenger. First, a credit-
based means is to let a vehicle classify the received messages sent
by another host to different severity levels for driving safety in
order to calculate the credit for the sender. Based on an
accumulated credit, a correspondent node can verify the other party
to see whether it is genuine or not. Second, a certificate-based
means includes a user certificate (e.g., X.509 certificate [RFC5280])
to authenticate a vehicle or its driver. Third, a biometric means
includes a fingerprint, face or voice to authenticate a driver or
passenger. Lastly, one-time passcode (called OTP) means lets another
already-authenticated device (e.g., smartphone and tablet) of a
driver or passenger be used to authenticate a driver or passenger.
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+-----------------+
(*)<........>(*) +----->| Vehicular Cloud |
(2001:db8:1:1::/64) | | | +-----------------+
+------------------------------+ +---------------------------------+
| v | | v v |
| +-------+ +-------+ | | +-------+ +-------+ |
| | Host1 | |IP-OBU1| | | |IP-RSU1| | Host3 | |
| +-------+ +-------+ | | +-------+ +-------+ |
| ^ ^ | | ^ ^ |
| | | | | | | |
| v v | | v v |
| ---------------------------- | | ------------------------------- |
| 2001:db8:10:1::/64 ^ | | ^ 2001:db8:20:1::/64 |
| | | | | |
| v | | v |
| +-------+ +-------+ | | +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ |
| | Host2 | |Router1| | | |Router2| |Server1|...|ServerN| |
| +-------+ +-------+ | | +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ |
| ^ ^ | | ^ ^ ^ |
| | | | | | | | |
| v v | | v v v |
| ---------------------------- | | ------------------------------- |
| 2001:db8:10:2::/64 | | 2001:db8:20:2::/64 |
+------------------------------+ +---------------------------------+
Vehicle1 (Mobile Network1) EN1 (Fixed Network1)
<----> Wired Link <....> Wireless Link (*) Antenna
Figure 2: Internetworking between Vehicle and Edge Network
As shown in Figure 2, as internal networks, a vehicle's mobile
network and an EN's fixed network are self-contained networks having
multiple subnets and having an edge router (e.g., IP-OBU and IP-RSU)
for the communication with another vehicle or another EN. The
internetworking between two internal networks via V2I communication
requires the exchange of the network parameters and the network
prefixes of the internal networks. For the efficiency, the network
prefixes of the internal networks (as a mobile network) in a vehicle
need to be delegated and configured automatically. Note that a
mobile network's network prefix can be called a Mobile Network Prefix
(MNP) [RFC3963].
Figure 2 also shows the internetworking between the vehicle's mobile
network and the EN's fixed network. There exists an internal network
(Mobile Network1) inside Vehicle1. Vehicle1 has two hosts (Host1 and
Host2), and two routers (IP-OBU1 and Router1). There exists another
internal network (Fixed Network1) inside EN1. EN1 has one host
(Host3), two routers (IP-RSU1 and Router2), and the collection of
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servers (Server1 to ServerN) for various services in the road
networks, such as the emergency notification and navigation.
Vehicle1's IP-OBU1 (as a mobile router) and EN1's IP-RSU1 (as a fixed
router) use 2001:db8:1:1::/64 for an external link (e.g., DSRC) for
V2I networking. Thus, a host (Host1) in Vehicle1 can communicate
with a server (Server1) in EN1 for a vehicular service through
Vehicle1's moving network, a wireless link between IP-OBU1 and IP-
RSU1, and EN1's fixed network.
For the IPv6 communication between an IP-OBU and an IP-RSU or between
two neighboring IP-OBUs, they need to know the network parameters,
which include MAC layer and IPv6 layer information. The MAC layer
information includes wireless link layer parameters, transmission
power level, and the MAC address of an external network interface for
the internetworking with another IP-OBU or IP-RSU. The IPv6 layer
information includes the IPv6 address and network prefix of an
external network interface for the internetworking with another IP-
OBU or IP-RSU.
Through the mutual knowledge of the network parameters of internal
networks, packets can be transmitted between the vehicle's moving
network and the EN's fixed network. Thus, V2I requires an efficient
protocol for the mutual knowledge of network parameters. Note that
from a security point of view, a perimeter-based policy enforcement
can be applied to protect parts of the internal network of a vehicle.
As shown in Figure 2, the addresses used for IPv6 transmissions over
the wireless link interfaces for IP-OBU and IP-RSU can be link-local
IPv6 addresses, ULAs, or global IPv6 addresses. When IPv6 addresses
are used, wireless interface configuration and control overhead for
DAD [RFC4862] and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD)
[RFC2710][RFC3810] should be minimized to support V2I and V2X
communications for vehicles moving fast along roadways.
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Let us consider the upload/download time of a ground vehicle when it
passes through the wireless communication coverage of an IP-RSU. For
a given typical setting where 1km is the maximum DSRC communication
range [DSRC] and 100km/h is the speed limit in highway for ground
vehicles, the dwelling time can be calculated to be 72 seconds by
dividing the diameter of the 2km (i.e., two times of DSRC
communication range where an IP-RSU is located in the center of the
circle of wireless communication) by the speed limit of 100km/h
(i.e., about 28m/s). For the 72 seconds, a vehicle passing through
the coverage of an IP-RSU can upload and download data packets to/
from the IP-RSU. For special cases such as emergency vehicles moving
above the speed limit, the dwelling time is relatively shorter than
that of other vehicles. For cases of airborne vehicles, considering
a higher flying speed and a higher altitude, the dwelling time can be
much shorter.
4.3. V2V-based Internetworking
This section discusses the internetworking between the moving
networks of two neighboring vehicles via V2V communication.
(*)<..........>(*)
(2001:db8:1:1::/64) | |
+------------------------------+ +------------------------------+
| v | | v |
| +-------+ +-------+ | | +-------+ +-------+ |
| | Host1 | |IP-OBU1| | | |IP-OBU2| | Host3 | |
| +-------+ +-------+ | | +-------+ +-------+ |
| ^ ^ | | ^ ^ |
| | | | | | | |
| v v | | v v |
| ---------------------------- | | ---------------------------- |
| 2001:db8:10:1::/64 ^ | | ^ 2001:db8:30:1::/64 |
| | | | | |
| v | | v |
| +-------+ +-------+ | | +-------+ +-------+ |
| | Host2 | |Router1| | | |Router2| | Host4 | |
| +-------+ +-------+ | | +-------+ +-------+ |
| ^ ^ | | ^ ^ |
| | | | | | | |
| v v | | v v |
| ---------------------------- | | ---------------------------- |
| 2001:db8:10:2::/64 | | 2001:db8:30:2::/64 |
+------------------------------+ +------------------------------+
Vehicle1 (Mobile Network1) Vehicle2 (Mobile Network2)
<----> Wired Link <....> Wireless Link (*) Antenna
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Figure 3: Internetworking between Two Vehicles
Figure 3 shows the internetworking between the mobile networks of two
neighboring vehicles. There exists an internal network (Mobile
Network1) inside Vehicle1. Vehicle1 has two hosts (Host1 and Host2),
and two routers (IP-OBU1 and Router1). There exists another internal
network (Mobile Network2) inside Vehicle2. Vehicle2 has two hosts
(Host3 and Host4), and two routers (IP-OBU2 and Router2). Vehicle1's
IP-OBU1 (as a mobile router) and Vehicle2's IP-OBU2 (as a mobile
router) use 2001:db8:1:1::/64 for an external link (e.g., DSRC) for
V2V networking. Thus, a host (Host1) in Vehicle1 can communicate
with another host (Host3) in Vehicle2 for a vehicular service through
Vehicle1's mobile network, a wireless link between IP-OBU1 and IP-
OBU2, and Vehicle2's mobile network.
As a V2V use case in Section 3.1, Figure 4 shows the linear network
topology of platooning vehicles for V2V communications where Vehicle3
is the leading vehicle with a driver, and Vehicle2 and Vehicle1 are
the following vehicles without drivers. From a security point of
view, before vehicles can be platooned, they shall be mutually
authenticated to reduce possible security risks.
(*)<..................>(*)<..................>(*)
| | |
+-----------+ +-----------+ +-----------+
| | | | | |
| +-------+ | | +-------+ | | +-------+ |
| |IP-OBU1| | | |IP-OBU2| | | |IP-OBU3| |
| +-------+ | | +-------+ | | +-------+ |
| ^ | | ^ | | ^ |
| | |=====> | | |=====> | | |=====>
| v | | v | | v |
| +-------+ | | +-------+ | | +-------+ |
| | Host1 | | | | Host2 | | | | Host3 | |
| +-------+ | | +-------+ | | +-------+ |
| | | | | |
+-----------+ +-----------+ +-----------+
Vehicle1 Vehicle2 Vehicle3
<----> Wired Link <....> Wireless Link ===> Moving Direction
(*) Antenna
Figure 4: Multihop Internetworking between Two Vehicle Networks
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As shown in Figure 4, multihop internetworking is feasible among the
mobile networks of three vehicles in the same VANET. For example,
Host1 in Vehicle1 can communicate with Host3 in Vehicle3 via IP-OBU1
in Vehicle1, IP-OBU2 in Vehicle2, and IP-OBU3 in Vehicle3 in the
VANET, as shown in the figure.
In this section, the link between two vehicles is assumed to be
stable for single-hop wireless communication regardless of the sight
relationship such as line of sight and non-line of sight, as shown in
Figure 3. Even in Figure 4, the three vehicles are connected to each
other with a linear topology, however, multihop V2V communication can
accommodate any network topology (i.e., an arbitrary graph) over
VANET routing protocols.
(*)<..................>(*)<..................>(*)
| | |
+-----------+ +-----------+ +-----------+
| | | | | |
| +-------+ | | +-------+ | | +-------+ |
| |IP-OBU1| | | |IP-RSU1| | | |IP-OBU3| |
| +-------+ | | +-------+ | | +-------+ |
| ^ | | ^ | | ^ |
| | |=====> | | | | | |=====>
| v | | v | | v |
| +-------+ | | +-------+ | | +-------+ |
| | Host1 | | | | Host2 | | | | Host3 | |
| +-------+ | | +-------+ | | +-------+ |
| | | | | |
+-----------+ +-----------+ +-----------+
Vehicle1 EN1 Vehicle3
<----> Wired Link <....> Wireless Link ===> Moving Direction
(*) Antenna
Figure 5: Multihop Internetworking between Two Vehicle Networks
via IP-RSU (V2I2V)
As shown in Figure 5, multihop internetworking between two vehicles
is feasible via an infrastructure node (i.e., IP-RSU) with wireless
connectivity among the mobile networks of two vehicles and the fixed
network of an edge network (denoted as EN1) in the same VANET. For
example, Host1 in Vehicle1 can communicate with Host3 in Vehicle3 via
IP-OBU1 in Vehicle1, IP-RSU1 in EN1, and IP-OBU3 in Vehicle3 in the
VANET, as shown in the figure.
For the reliability required in V2V networking, the ND optimization
defined in MANET [RFC6130] [RFC7466] improves the classical IPv6 ND
in terms of tracking neighbor information with up to two hops and
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introducing several extensible Information Bases, which serves the
MANET routing protocols such as the different versions of Optimized
Link State Routing Protocol (OLSR) [RFC3626] [RFC7181], Open Shortest
Path First (OSPF) derivatives (e.g., [RFC5614]), and Dynamic Link
Exchange Protocol (DLEP) [RFC8175] with its extensions [RFC8629]
[RFC8757]. In short, the MANET ND mainly deals with maintaining
extended network neighbors to enhance the link reliability. However,
an ND protocol in vehicular networks shall consider more about the
geographical mobility information of vehicles as an important
resource for serving various purposes to improve the reliability,
e.g., vehicle driving safety, intelligent transportation
implementations, and advanced mobility services. For a more reliable
V2V networking, some redundancy mechanisms should be provided in L3
in cases of the failure of L2. For different use cases, the optimal
solution to improve V2V networking reliability may vary. For
example, a group of vehicles in platooning may have stabler neighbors
than freely moving vehicles, as described in Section 3.1.
5. Problem Statement
In order to specify protocols using the architecture mentioned in
Section 4.1, IPv6 core protocols have to be adapted to overcome
certain challenging aspects of vehicular networking. Since the
vehicles are likely to be moving at great speed, protocol exchanges
need to be completed in a relatively short time compared to the
lifetime of a link between a vehicle and an IP-RSU, or between two
vehicles. In these cases, vehicles may not have enough time either
to build link-layer connections with each other and may rely more on
connections with infrastructure. In other cases, the relative speed
between vehicles may be low when vehicles move toward the same
direction or are platooned. For those cases, vehicles can have more
time to build and maintain connections with each other.
For safe driving, vehicles need to exchange application messages
every 0.5 second [NHTSA-ACAS-Report] to let drivers take an action to
avoid a dangerous situation (e.g., vehicle collision), so the IPv6
control plane (e.g., ND procedure and DAD) needs to support this
order of magnitude for application message exchanges. Also,
considering the communication range of DSRC (up to 1km) and 100km/h
as the speed limit in highway (some countries can have much higher
speed limit or even no limit, e.g., Germany), the lifetime of a link
between a vehicle and an IP-RSU is in the order of a minute (e.g.,
about 72 seconds), and the lifetime of a link between two vehicles is
about a half minute. Note that if two vehicles are moving in the
opposite directions in a roadway, the relative speed of this case is
two times the relative speed of a vehicle passing through an IP-RSU.
This relative speed leads the half of the link lifetime between the
vehicle and the IP-RSU. In reality, the DSRC communication range is
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around 500m, so the link lifetime will be a half of the maximum time.
The time constraint of a wireless link between two nodes (e.g.,
vehicle and IP-RSU) needs to be considered because it may affect the
lifetime of a session involving the link. The lifetime of a session
varies depending on the session's type such as a web surfing, voice
call over IP, DNS query, and context-aware navigation (in
Section 3.1). Regardless of a session's type, to guide all the IPv6
packets to their destination host(s), IP mobility should be supported
for the session. In a V2V scenario (e.g., context-aware navigation),
the IPv6 packets of a vehicle should be delivered to relevant
vehicles efficiently (e.g., multicasting). With this observation,
IPv6 protocol exchanges need to be done as short as possible to
support the message exchanges of various applications in vehicular
networks.
Therefore, the time constraint of a wireless link has a major impact
on IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (ND). Mobility Management (MM) is also
vulnerable to disconnections that occur before the completion of
identity verification and tunnel management. This is especially true
given the unreliable nature of wireless communication. Meanwhile,
the bandwidth of the wireless link determined by the lower layers
(i.e., link and PHY layers) can affect the transmission time of
control messages of the upper layers (e.g., IPv6) and the continuity
of sessions in the higher layers (e.g., IPv6, TCP, and UDP). Hence,
the bandwidth selection according to Modulation and Coding Scheme
(MCS) also affects the vehicular network connectivity. Note that
usually the higher bandwidth gives the shorter communication range
and the higher packet error rate at the receiving side, which may
reduce the reliability of control message exchanges of the higher
layers (e.g., IPv6). This section presents key topics such as
neighbor discovery and mobility management for links and sessions in
IPv6-based vehicular networks. Note that the detailed discussion on
the transport-layer session mobility and usage of available bandwidth
to fulfill the use cases is left as potential future work.
5.1. Neighbor Discovery
IPv6 ND [RFC4861][RFC4862] is a core part of the IPv6 protocol suite.
IPv6 ND is designed for link types including point-to-point,
multicast-capable (e.g., Ethernet) and Non-Broadcast Multiple Access
(NBMA). It assumes the efficient and reliable support of multicast
and unicast from the link layer for various network operations such
as MAC Address Resolution (AR), DAD, MLD and Neighbor Unreachability
Detection (NUD).
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Vehicles move quickly within the communication coverage of any
particular vehicle or IP-RSU. Before the vehicles can exchange
application messages with each other, they need IPv6 addresses to run
IPv6 ND.
The requirements for IPv6 ND for vehicular networks are efficient DAD
and NUD operations. An efficient DAD is required to reduce the
overhead of DAD packets during a vehicle's travel in a road network,
which can guarantee the uniqueness of a vehicle's global IPv6
address. An efficient NUD is required to reduce the overhead of the
NUD packets during a vehicle's travel in a road network, which can
guarantee the accurate neighborhood information of a vehicle in terms
of adjacent vehicles and RSUs.
The legacy DAD assumes that a node with an IPv6 address can reach any
other node with the scope of its address at the time it claims its
address, and can hear any future claim for that address by another
party within the scope of its address for the duration of the address
ownership. However, the partitioning and merging of VANETs makes
this assumption be not valid frequently in vehicular networks. The
merging and partitioning of VANETs frequently occurs in vehicular
networks. This merging and partitioning should be considered for the
IPv6 ND such as IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC)
[RFC4862]. SLAAC is not compatible with merging and partitioning,
and additional work is needed for ND to operate properly under those
circumstances. Due to the merging of VANETs, two IPv6 addresses may
conflict with each other though they were unique before the merging.
An address lookup operation may be conducted by an MA or IP-RSU (as
Registrar in RPL) to check the uniqueness of an IPv6 address that
will be configured by a vehicle as DAD. Also, the partitioning of a
VANET may make vehicles with the same prefix be physically
unreachable. An address lookup operation may be conducted by an MA
or IP-RSU (as Registrar in RPL) to check the existence of a vehicle
under the network coverage of the MA or IP-RSU as NUD. Thus, SLAAC
needs to prevent IPv6 address duplication due to the merging of
VANETs, and IPv6 ND needs to detect unreachable neighboring vehicles
due to the partitioning of a VANET. According to the merging and
partitioning, a destination vehicle (as an IPv6 host) needs to be
distinguished as either an on-link host or a not-onlink host even
though the source vehicle can use the same prefix as the destination
vehicle [I-D.ietf-intarea-ippl].
To efficiently prevent IPv6 address duplication due to the VANET
partitioning and merging from happening in vehicular networks, the
vehicular networks need to support a vehicular-network-wide DAD by
defining a scope that is compatible with the legacy DAD. In this
case, two vehicles can communicate with each other when there exists
a communication path over VANET or a combination of VANETs and IP-
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RSUs, as shown in Figure 1. By using the vehicular-network-wide DAD,
vehicles can assure that their IPv6 addresses are unique in the
vehicular network whenever they are connected to the vehicular
infrastructure or become disconnected from it in the form of VANET.
For vehicular networks with high mobility and density, DAD needs to
be performed efficiently with minimum overhead so that the vehicles
can exchange driving safety messages (e.g., collision avoidance and
accident notification) with each other with a short interval
suggested by NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)
[NHTSA-ACAS-Report]. Since the partitioning and merging of vehicular
networks may require re-perform DAD process repeatedly, the link
scope of vehicles may be limited to a small area, which may delay the
exchange of driving safety messages. Driving safety messages can
include a vehicle's mobility information (i.e., position, speed,
direction, and acceleration/deceleration) that is critical to other
vehicles. The exchange interval of this message is recommended to be
less than 0.5 second, which is required for a driver to avoid an
emergency situation, such as a rear-end crash.
ND time-related parameters such as router lifetime and Neighbor
Advertisement (NA) interval need to be adjusted for vehicle speed and
vehicle density. For example, the NA interval needs to be
dynamically adjusted according to a vehicle's speed so that the
vehicle can maintain its neighboring vehicles in a stable way,
considering the collision probability with the NA messages sent by
other vehicles. The ND time-related parameters can be an operational
setting or an optimization point particularly for vehicular networks.
Note that the link-scope multicast messages in ND protocol may cause
the performance issue in vehicular networks. [RFC9119] suggests
several optimization approaches for the issue.
For IPv6-based safety applications (e.g., context-aware navigation,
adaptive cruise control, and platooning) in vehicular networks, the
delay-bounded data delivery is critical. IPv6 ND needs to work to
support those IPv6-based safety applications efficiently.
[I-D.jeong-ipwave-vehicular-neighbor-discovery] introduces a
Vehicular Neighbor Discovery (VND) process as an extension of IPv6 ND
for IP-based vehicular networks.
From the interoperability point of view, in IPv6-based vehicular
networking, IPv6 ND should have minimum changes with the legacy IPv6
ND used in the Internet, including DAD and NUD operations, so that
IPv6-based vehicular networks can be seamlessly connected to other
intelligent transportation elements (e.g., traffic signals,
pedestrian wearable devices, electric scooters, and bus stops) that
use the standard IPv6 network settings.
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5.1.1. Link Model
A subnet model for a vehicular network needs to facilitate the
communication between two vehicles with the same prefix regardless of
the vehicular network topology as long as there exist bidirectional
E2E paths between them in the vehicular network including VANETs and
IP-RSUs. This subnet model allows vehicles with the same prefix to
communicate with each other via a combination of multihop V2V and
multihop V2I with VANETs and IP-RSUs.
[I-D.thubert-6man-ipv6-over-wireless] introduces other issues in an
IPv6 subnet model.
IPv6 protocols work under certain assumptions that do not necessarily
hold for vehicular wireless access link types [VIP-WAVE][RFC5889].
For instance, some IPv6 protocols such as NUD [RFC4861] and MIPv6
[RFC6275] assume symmetry in the connectivity among neighboring
interfaces. However, radio interference and different levels of
transmission power may cause asymmetric links to appear in vehicular
wireless links [RFC6250]. As a result, a new vehicular link model
needs to consider the asymmetry of dynamically changing vehicular
wireless links.
There is a relationship between a link and a prefix, besides the
different scopes that are expected from the link-local, unique-local,
and global types of IPv6 addresses. In an IPv6 link, it is defined
that all interfaces which are configured with the same subnet prefix
and with on-link bit set can communicate with each other on an IPv6
link. However, the vehicular link model needs to define the
relationship between a link and a prefix, considering the dynamics of
wireless links and the characteristics of VANET.
A VANET can have a single link between each vehicle pair within
wireless communication range, as shown in Figure 4. When two
vehicles belong to the same VANET, but they are out of wireless
communication range, they cannot communicate directly with each
other. Suppose that a global-scope IPv6 prefix (or an IPv6 ULA
prefix) is assigned to VANETs in vehicular networks. Considering
that two vehicles in the same VANET configure their IPv6 addresses
with the same IPv6 prefix, if they are not in one hop (that is, they
have the multihop network connectivity between them), then they may
not be able to communicate with each other. Thus, in this case, the
concept of an on-link IPv6 prefix does not hold because two vehicles
with the same on-link IPv6 prefix cannot communicate directly with
each other. Also, when two vehicles are located in two different
VANETs with the same IPv6 prefix, they cannot communicate with each
other. When these two VANETs converge to one VANET, the two vehicles
can communicate with each other in a multihop fashion, for example,
when they are Vehicle1 and Vehicle3, as shown in Figure 4.
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From the previous observation, a vehicular link model should consider
the frequent partitioning and merging of VANETs due to vehicle
mobility. Therefore, the vehicular link model needs to use an on-
link prefix and not-onlink prefix according to the network topology
of vehicles such as a one-hop reachable network and a multihop
reachable network (or partitioned networks). If the vehicles with
the same prefix are reachable from each other in one hop, the prefix
should be on-link. On the other hand, if some of the vehicles with
the same prefix are not reachable from each other in one hop due to
either the multihop topology in the VANET or multiple partitions, the
prefix should be not-onlink. In most cases in vehicular networks,
due to the partitioning and merging of VANETs, and the multihop
network topology of VANETS, not-onlink prefixes will be used for
vehicles as default.
The vehicular link model needs to support multihop routing in a
connected VANET where the vehicles with the same global-scope IPv6
prefix (or the same IPv6 ULA prefix) are connected in one hop or
multiple hops. It also needs to support the multihop routing in
multiple connected VANETs through infrastructure nodes (e.g., IP-RSU)
where they are connected to the infrastructure. For example, in
Figure 1, suppose that Vehicle1, Vehicle2, and Vehicle3 are
configured with their IPv6 addresses based on the same global-scope
IPv6 prefix. Vehicle1 and Vehicle3 can also communicate with each
other via either multihop V2V or multihop V2I2V. When Vehicle1 and
Vehicle3 are connected in a VANET, it will be more efficient for them
to communicate with each other directly via VANET rather than
indirectly via IP-RSUs. On the other hand, when Vehicle1 and
Vehicle3 are far away from direct communication range in separate
VANETs and under two different IP-RSUs, they can communicate with
each other through the relay of IP-RSUs via V2I2V. Thus, two
separate VANETs can merge into one network via IP-RSU(s). Also,
newly arriving vehicles can merge two separate VANETs into one VANET
if they can play the role of a relay node for those VANETs.
Thus, in IPv6-based vehicular networking, the vehicular link model
should have minimum changes for interoperability with standard IPv6
links efficiently to support IPv6 DAD, MLD and NUD operations.
5.1.2. MAC Address Pseudonym
For the protection of drivers' privacy, a pseudonym of a MAC address
of a vehicle's network interface should be used, so that the MAC
address can be changed periodically. However, although such a
pseudonym of a MAC address can protect to some extent the privacy of
a vehicle, it may not be able to resist attacks on vehicle
identification by other fingerprint information, for example, the
scrambler seed embedded in IEEE 802.11-OCB frames [Scrambler-Attack].
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Note that [I-D.ietf-madinas-mac-address-randomization] discusses more
about MAC address randomization, and [I-D.ietf-madinas-use-cases]
describes several use cases for MAC address randomization.
In the ETSI standards, for the sake of security and privacy, an ITS
station (e.g., vehicle) can use pseudonyms for its network interface
identities (e.g., MAC address) and the corresponding IPv6 addresses
[Identity-Management]. Whenever the network interface identifier
changes, the IPv6 address based on the network interface identifier
needs to be updated, and the uniqueness of the address needs to be
checked through DAD procedure.
5.1.3. Routing
For multihop V2V communications in either a VANET or VANETs via IP-
RSUs, a vehicular Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET) routing protocol may
be required to support both unicast and multicast in the links of the
subnet with the same IPv6 prefix. However, it will be costly to run
both vehicular ND and a vehicular ad hoc routing protocol in terms of
control traffic overhead [RFC9119].
A routing protocol for a VANET may cause redundant wireless frames in
the air to check the neighborhood of each vehicle and compute the
routing information in a VANET with a dynamic network topology
because the IPv6 ND is used to check the neighborhood of each
vehicle. Thus, the vehicular routing needs to take advantage of the
IPv6 ND to minimize its control overhead.
RPL [RFC6550] defines a routing protocol for low-power and lossy
networks, which constructs and maintains Destination-Oriented
Directed Acyclic Graphs (DODAGs) optimized by an Objective Function
(OF). A defined OF provides route selection and optimization within
an RPL topology. The RPL nodes use an anisotropic Distance Vector
(DV) approach to form a DODAG by discovering and aggressively
maintaining the upward default route toward the root of the DODAG.
Downward routes follow the same DODAG, with lazy maintenance and
stretched Peer-to-Peer (P2P) routing in the so-called storing mode.
It is well-designed to reduce the topological knowledge and routing
state that needs to be exchanged. As a result, the routing protocol
overhead is minimized, which allows either highly constrained stable
networks or less constrained, highly dynamic networks. Refer to
Appendix B for the detailed description of RPL for multihop V2X
networking.
An address registration extension for 6LoWPAN (IPv6 over Low-Power
Wireless Personal Area Network) in [RFC8505] can support light-weight
mobility for nodes moving through different parents. [RFC8505], as
opposed to [RFC4861], is stateful and proactively installs the ND
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cache entries, which saves broadcasts and provides deterministic
presence information for IPv6 addresses. Mainly it updates the
Address Registration Option (ARO) of ND defined in [RFC6775] to
include a status field that can indicate the movement of a node and
optionally a Transaction ID (TID) field, i.e., a sequence number that
can be used to determine the most recent location of a node. Thus,
RPL can use the information provided by the Extended ARO (EARO)
defined in [RFC8505] to deal with a certain level of node mobility.
When a leaf node moves to the coverage of another parent node, it
should de-register its addresses to the previous parent node and
register itself with a new parent node along with an incremented TID.
RPL can be used in IPv6-based vehicular networks, but it is primarily
designed for low-power networks, which puts energy efficiency first.
For using it in IPv6-based vehicular networks, there have not been
actual experiences and practical implementations, though it was
tested in IoT low-power and lossy networks (LLN) scenarios. Another
concern is that RPL may generate excessive topology discovery
messages in a highly moving environment such as vehicular networks.
This issue can be an operational or optimization point for a
practitioner.
Moreover, due to bandwidth and energy constraints, RPL does not
suggest using a proactive mechanism (e.g., keepalive) to maintain
accurate routing adjacencies such as Bidirectional Forwarding
Detection [RFC5881] and MANET Neighborhood Discovery Protocol
[RFC6130]. As a result, due to the mobility of vehicles, network
fragmentation may not be detected quickly and the routing of packets
between vehicles or between a vehicle and an infrastructure node may
fail.
5.2. Mobility Management
The seamless connectivity and timely data exchange between two end
points requires efficient mobility management including location
management and handover. Most vehicles are equipped with a GNSS
receiver as part of a dedicated navigation system or a corresponding
smartphone App. Note that the GNSS receiver may not provide vehicles
with accurate location information in adverse environments such as a
building area or a tunnel. The location precision can be improved
with assistance of the IP-RSUs or a cellular system with a GNSS
receiver for location information.
With a GNSS navigator, efficient mobility management can be performed
with the help of vehicles periodically reporting their current
position and trajectory (i.e., navigation path) to the vehicular
infrastructure (having IP-RSUs and an MA in TCC). This vehicular
infrastructure can predict the future positions of the vehicles from
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their mobility information (i.e., the current position, speed,
direction, and trajectory) for efficient mobility management (e.g.,
proactive handover). For a better proactive handover, link-layer
parameters, such as the signal strength of a link-layer frame (e.g.,
Received Channel Power Indicator (RCPI) [VIP-WAVE]), can be used to
determine the moment of a handover between IP-RSUs along with
mobility information.
By predicting a vehicle's mobility, the vehicular infrastructure
needs to better support IP-RSUs to perform efficient SLAAC, data
forwarding, horizontal handover (i.e., handover in wireless links
using a homogeneous radio technology), and vertical handover (i.e.,
handover in wireless links using heterogeneous radio technologies) in
advance along with the movement of the vehicle.
For example, as shown in Figure 1, when a vehicle (e.g., Vehicle2) is
moving from the coverage of an IP-RSU (e.g., IP-RSU1) into the
coverage of another IP-RSU (e.g., IP-RSU2) belonging to a different
subnet, the IP-RSUs can proactively support the IPv6 mobility of the
vehicle, while performing the SLAAC, data forwarding, and handover
for the sake of the vehicle.
For a mobility management scheme in a domain, where the wireless
subnets of multiple IP-RSUs share the same prefix, an efficient
vehicular-network-wide DAD is required. On the other hand, for a
mobility management scheme with a unique prefix per mobile node
(e.g., PMIPv6 [RFC5213]), DAD is not required because the IPv6
address of a vehicle's external wireless interface is guaranteed to
be unique. There is a trade-off between the prefix usage efficiency
and DAD overhead. Thus, the IPv6 address autoconfiguration for
vehicular networks needs to consider this trade-off to support
efficient mobility management.
Even though the SLAAC with classic ND costs a DAD during mobility
management, the SLAAC with [RFC8505] and/or AERO/OMNI do not cost a
DAD. SLAAC for vehicular networks needs to consider the minimization
of the cost of DAD with the help of an infrastructure node (e.g., IP-
RSU and MA). Using an infrastructure prefix over VANET allows direct
routability to the Internet through the multihop V2I toward an IP-
RSU. On the other hand, a BYOA does not allow such direct
routability to the Internet since the BYOA is not topologically
correct, that is, not routable in the Internet. In addition, a
vehicle configured with a BYOA needs a tunnel home (e.g., IP-RSU)
connected to the Internet, and the vehicle needs to know which
neighboring vehicle is reachable inside the VANET toward the tunnel
home. There is non-negligible control overhead to set up and
maintain routes to such a tunnel home [RFC4888] over the VANET.
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For the case of a multihomed network, a vehicle can follow the first-
hop router selection rule described in [RFC8028]. For example, an
IP-OBU inside a vehicle may connect to an IP-RSU that has multiple
routers behind. In this scenario, because the IP-OBU can have
multiple prefixes from those routers, the default router selection,
source address selection, and packet redirect process should follow
the guidelines in [RFC8028]. That is, the vehicle should select its
default router for each prefix by preferring the router that
advertised the prefix.
Vehicles can use the TCC as their Home Network having a home agent
for mobility management as in MIPv6 [RFC6275], PMIPv6 [RFC5213], and
NEMO [RFC3963], so the TCC (or an MA inside the TCC) maintains the
mobility information of vehicles for location management. Also, in
vehicular networks, asymmetric links sometimes exist and must be
considered for wireless communications such as V2V and V2I.
[I-D.jeong-ipwave-vehicular-mobility-management] discusses a
Vehicular Mobility Management (VMM) scheme to proactively do handover
for vehicles.
Therefore, for the proactive and seamless IPv6 mobility of vehicles,
the vehicular infrastructure (including IP-RSUs and MA) needs to
efficiently perform the mobility management of the vehicles with
their mobility information and link-layer information. Also, in
IPv6-based vehicular networking, IPv6 mobility management should have
minimum changes for the interoperability with the legacy IPv6
mobility management schemes such as PMIPv6, DMM, LISP, and AERO.
6. Security Considerations
This section discusses security and privacy for IPv6-based vehicular
networking. Security and privacy are paramount in V2I, V2V, and V2X
networking along with neighbor discovery and mobility management.
Vehicles and infrastructure must be authenticated to each other by a
password, a key, and/or a fingerprint in order to participate in
vehicular networking. For the authentication in vehicular networks,
vehicular cloud needs to support a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
efficiently, as either a dedicated or a co-located component inside a
TCC. To provide safe interaction between vehicles or between a
vehicle and infrastructure, only authenticated nodes (i.e., vehicle
and infrastructure node) can participate in vehicular networks.
Also, in-vehicle devices (e.g., ECU) and a driver/passenger's mobile
devices (e.g., smartphone and tablet PC) in a vehicle need to
communicate with other in-vehicle devices and another driver/
passenger's mobile devices in another vehicle, or other servers
behind an IP-RSU securely. Even though a vehicle is perfectly
authenticated by another entity and legitimate to use the data
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generated by another vehicle, it may be hacked for running malicious
applications to track and collect its and other vehicles'
information. In this case, an attack mitigation process may be
required to reduce the aftermath of malicious behaviors. Note that
when driver/passenger's mobile devices are connected to a vehicle's
internal network, the vehicle may be more vulnerable to possible
attacks from external networks due to the exposure of its in-flight
traffic packets. [I-D.jeong-ipwave-security-privacy] discusses
several types of threats for Vehicular Security and Privacy (VSP).
For secure V2I communication, a secure channel (e.g., IPsec) between
a mobile router (i.e., IP-OBU) in a vehicle and a fixed router (i.e.,
IP-RSU) in an EN needs to be established, as shown in Figure 2
[RFC4301][RFC4302] [RFC4303][RFC4308] [RFC7296]. Also, for secure
V2V communication, a secure channel (e.g., IPsec) between a mobile
router (i.e., IP-OBU) in a vehicle and a mobile router (i.e., IP-OBU)
in another vehicle needs to be established, as shown in Figure 3.
For secure V2I/V2V communication, an element in a vehicle (e.g., an
in-vehicle device and a driver/passenger's mobile device) needs to
establish a secure connection (e.g., TLS) with another element in
another vehicle or another element in a vehicular cloud (e.g., a
server). Note that any key management approach can be used for the
secure communication, and particularly for IPv6-based vehicular
networks, a new or enhanced key management approach resilient to
wireless networks is required.
IEEE 1609.2 [WAVE-1609.2] specifies security services for
applications and management messages, but this WAVE specification is
optional. Thus, if the link layer does not support the security of a
WAVE frame, either the network layer or the transport layer needs to
support security services for the WAVE frames.
6.1. Security Threats in Neighbor Discovery
For the classical IPv6 ND (i.e., the legacy ND), DAD is required to
ensure the uniqueness of the IPv6 address of a vehicle's wireless
interface. This DAD can be used as a flooding attack that uses the
DAD-related ND packets disseminated over the VANET or vehicular
networks. [RFC6959] introduces threats enabled by IP source address
spoofing. This possibility indicates that vehicles and IP-RSUs need
to filter out suspicious ND traffic in advance. [RFC8928] introduces
a mechanism that protects the ownership of an address for 6loWPAN ND
from address theft and impersonation attacks. Based on the SEND
[RFC3971] mechanism, the authentication for routers (i.e., IP-RSUs)
can be conducted by only selecting an IP-RSU that has a certification
path toward trusted parties. For authenticating other vehicles,
cryptographically generated addresses (CGA) can be used to verify the
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true owner of a received ND message, which requires using the CGA ND
option in the ND protocol. This CGA can protect vehicles against DAD
flooding by DAD filtering based on the verification for the true
owner of the received DAD message. For a general protection of the
ND mechanism, the RSA Signature ND option can also be used to protect
the integrity of the messages by public key signatures. For a more
advanced authentication mechanism, a distributed blockchain-based
approach [Vehicular-BlockChain] can be used. However, for a scenario
where a trustable router or an authentication path cannot be
obtained, it is desirable to find a solution in which vehicles and
infrastructures can authenticate each other without any support from
a third party.
When applying the classical IPv6 ND process to VANET, one of the
security issues is that an IP-RSU (or an IP-OBU) as a router may
receive deliberate or accidental DoS attacks from network scans that
probe devices on a VANET. In this scenario, the IP-RSU can be
overwhelmed for processing the network scan requests so that the
capacity and resources of IP-RSU are exhausted, causing the failure
of receiving normal ND messages from other hosts for network address
resolution. [RFC6583] describes more about the operational problems
in the classical IPv6 ND mechanism that can be vulnerable to
deliberate or accidental DoS attacks and suggests several
implementation guidelines and operational mitigation techniques for
those problems. Nevertheless, for running IPv6 ND in VANET, those
issues can be more acute since the movements of vehicles can be so
diverse that it leaves a large room for rogue behaviors, and the
failure of networking among vehicles may cause grave consequences.
Strong security measures shall protect vehicles roaming in road
networks from the attacks of malicious nodes, which are controlled by
hackers. For safe driving applications (e.g., context-aware
navigation, cooperative adaptive cruise control, and platooning), as
explained in Section 3.1, the cooperative action among vehicles is
assumed. Malicious nodes may disseminate wrong driving information
(e.g., location, speed, and direction) for disturbing safe driving.
For example, a Sybil attack, which tries to confuse a vehicle with
multiple false identities, may disturb a vehicle from taking a safe
maneuver. Since cybersecurity issues in vehicular networks may cause
physical vehicle safety issues, it may be necessary to consider those
physical security concerns when designing protocols in IPWAVE.
To identify malicious vehicles among vehicles, an authentication
method may be required. A Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) (or a
vehicle manufacturer certificate) and a user certificate (e.g., X.509
certificate [RFC5280]) along with an in-vehicle device's identifier
generation can be used to efficiently authenticate a vehicle or its
driver (having a user certificate) through a road infrastructure node
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(e.g., IP-RSU) connected to an authentication server in the vehicular
cloud. This authentication can be used to identify the vehicle that
will communicate with an infrastructure node or another vehicle. In
the case where a vehicle has an internal network (called Moving
Network) and elements in the network (e.g., in-vehicle devices and a
user's mobile devices), as shown in Figure 2, the elements in the
network need to be authenticated individually for safe
authentication. Also, Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates
[RFC8446][RFC5280] can be used for an element's authentication to
allow secure E2E vehicular communications between an element in a
vehicle and another element in a server in a vehicular cloud, or
between an element in a vehicle and another element in another
vehicle.
6.2. Security Threats in Mobility Management
For mobility management, a malicious vehicle can construct multiple
virtual bogus vehicles, and register them with IP-RSUs and MA. This
registration makes the IP-RSUs and MA waste their resources. The IP-
RSUs and MA need to determine whether a vehicle is genuine or bogus
in mobility management. Also, the confidentiality of control packets
and data packets among IP-RSUs and MA, the E2E paths (e.g., tunnels)
need to be protected by secure communication channels. In addition,
to prevent bogus IP-RSUs and MA from interfering with the IPv6
mobility of vehicles, mutual authentication among them needs to be
performed by certificates (e.g., TLS certificate).
6.3. Other Threats
For the setup of a secure channel over IPsec or TLS, the multihop V2I
communications over DSRC or 5G V2X (or LTE V2X) is required in a
highway. In this case, multiple intermediate vehicles as relay nodes
can help to forward association and authentication messages toward an
IP-RSU (gNodeB or eNodeB) connected to an authentication server in
the vehicular cloud. In this kind of process, the authentication
messages forwarded by each vehicle can be delayed or lost, which may
increase the construction time of a connection or some vehicles may
not be able to be authenticated.
Even though vehicles can be authenticated with valid certificates by
an authentication server in the vehicular cloud, the authenticated
vehicles may harm other vehicles. To deal with this kind of security
issue, for monitoring suspicious behaviors, vehicles' communication
activities can be recorded in either a centralized approach through a
logging server (e.g., TCC) in the vehicular cloud or a decentralized
approach (e.g., an edge computing device and blockchain [Bitcoin]) by
the help of other vehicles and infrastructure.
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There are trade-offs between centralized and decentralized approaches
in logging for vehicles' behaviors (e.g., location, speed, direction,
acceleration, deceleration, and lane change) and communication
activities (e.g., transmission time, reception time, and packet types
such as TCP, UDP, SCTP, QUIC, HTTP, and HTTPS). A centralized
approach is more efficient than a decentralized approach in terms of
logging data collection and processing in a central server in the
vehicular cloud. However, the centralized approach may cause a
higher delay than a decentralized approach in terms of the analysis
of the logging data and counteraction in a local edge computing
device or a distributed database like a blockchain. The centralized
approach stores logging data collected from VANET into a remote
logging server in a vehicular cloud as a central cloud, so it takes
time to deliver the logging data to a remote logging server. On the
other hand, the decentralized approach stores the logging data into a
nearby edge computing device as a local logging server or a nearby
blockchain node, which participates in a blockchain network. On the
stored logging data, an analyzer needs to perform a machine learning
technique (e.g., Deep Learning) and seek suspicious behaviors of the
vehicles. If such an analyzer is located either within or near the
edge computing device, it can access the logging data with a short
delay, analyze it quickly, and generate feedback to allow for a quick
counteraction against such malicious behaviors. On the other hand,
if the vehicular cloud with the logging data is far away from a
problematic VANET with malicious behaviors, the centralized approach
takes a long time with the analysis with the logging data and the
decision-making on malicious behaviors than the decentralized
approach. If the logging data is encrypted by a secret key, it can
be protected from the observation of a hacker. The secret key
sharing among legal vehicles, edge computing devices, and vehicular
clouds should be supported efficiently.
Logging information can release privacy breakage of a vehicle. The
logging information can contain the MAC address and IPv6 address for
a vehicle's wireless network interface. If the unique MAC address of
the wireless network interface is used, a hacker can track the
vehicle with that MAC address, so can track the privacy information
of the vehicle's driver (e.g., location information). To prevent
this privacy breakage, a MAC address pseudonym can be used for the
MAC address of the wireless network interface, and the corresponding
IPv6 address should be based on such a MAC address pseudonym. By
solving a privacy issue of a vehicle's identity in logging, vehicles
may observe activities of each other to identify any misbehavior
without privacy breakage. Once identifying a misbehavior, a vehicle
shall have a way to either isolate itself from others or isolate a
suspicious vehicle by informing other vehicles.
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For completely secure vehicular networks, we shall embrace the
concept of "zero-trust" for vehicles in which no vehicle is trustable
and verifying every message (such as IPv6 control messages including
ND, DAD, NUD, and application layer messages) is necessary. In this
way, vehicular networks can defense many possible cyberattacks.
Thus, we need to have an efficient zero-trust framework or mechanism
for the vehicular networks.
For the non-repudiation of the harmful activities from malicious
vehicles, which it is difficult for other normal vehicles to identify
them, an additional and advanced approach is needed. One possible
approach is to use a blockchain-based approach [Bitcoin] as an IPv6
security checking framework. Each IPv6 packet from a vehicle can be
treated as a transaction and the neighboring vehicles can play the
role of peers in a consensus method of a blockchain [Bitcoin]
[Vehicular-BlockChain]. For a blockchain's efficient consensus in
vehicular networks having fast moving vehicles, a new consensus
algorithm needs to be developed, or an existing consensus algorithm
needs to be enhanced. In addition, a consensus-based mechanism for
the security of vehicular networks in the IPv6 layer can also be
considered. A group of servers as blockchain infrastructure can be
part of the security checking process in the IP layer.
To prevent an adversary from tracking a vehicle with its MAC address
or IPv6 address, especially for a long-living transport-layer session
(e.g., voice call over IP and video streaming service), a MAC address
pseudonym needs to be provided to each vehicle; that is, each vehicle
periodically updates its MAC address and its IPv6 address needs to be
updated accordingly by the MAC address change [RFC4086][RFC8981].
Such an update of the MAC and IPv6 addresses should not interrupt the
E2E communications between two vehicles (or between a vehicle and an
IP-RSU) for a long-living transport-layer session. However, if this
pseudonym is performed without strong E2E confidentiality (using
either IPsec or TLS), there will be no privacy benefit from changing
MAC and IPv6 addresses, because an adversary can observe the change
of the MAC and IPv6 addresses and track the vehicle with those
addresses. Thus, the MAC address pseudonym and the IPv6 address
update should be performed with strong E2E confidentiality.
The privacy exposure to the TCC and via V2I is mostly about the
location information of vehicles, and may also include other in-
vehicle activities such as transactions of credit cards. The
assumed, trusted actors are the owner of a vehicle, an authorized
vehicle service provider (e.g., navigation service provider), and an
authorized vehicle manufacturer for providing after-sales services.
In addition, privacy concerns for excessively collecting vehicle
activities from roadway operators such as public transportation
administrators and private contractors may also pose threats on
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violating privacy rights of vehicles. It might be interesting to
find a solution from a technology point of view along with public
policy development for the issue.
The "multicasting" of the location information of a VRU's smartphone
means IPv6 multicasting. There is a possible security attack related
to this multicasting. Attackers can use "fake identifiers" as source
IPv6 addresses of their devices to generate IPv6 packets and
multicast them to nearby vehicles in order to make a confusion that
those vehicles are surrounded by other vehicles or pedestrians. As a
result, navigation services (e.g., Google Maps [Google-Maps] and Waze
[Waze]) can be confused with fake road traffic by those vehicles or
smartphones with "fake identifiers" [Fake-Identifier-Attack]. This
attack with "fake identifiers" should be detected and handled by
vehicular networks. To cope with this attack, both legal vehicles
and legal VRUs' smartphones can be registered with a traffic control
center (called TCC) and their locations can be tracked by the TCC.
With this tracking, the TCC can tell the road traffic conditions
caused by those vehicles and smartphones. In addition, to prevent
hackers from tracking the locations of those vehicles and
smartphones, either a MAC address pseudonym
[I-D.ietf-madinas-mac-address-randomization] or secure IPv6 address
generation [RFC7721] can be used to protect the privacy of those
vehicles and smartphones.
7. IANA Considerations
This document does not require any IANA actions.
8. References
8.1. Normative References
[RFC4861] Narten, T., Nordmark, E., Simpson, W., and H. Soliman,
"Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)", RFC 4861,
DOI 10.17487/RFC4861, September 2007,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4861>.
[RFC4862] Thomson, S., Narten, T., and T. Jinmei, "IPv6 Stateless
Address Autoconfiguration", RFC 4862,
DOI 10.17487/RFC4862, September 2007,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4862>.
[RFC6275] Perkins, C., Ed., Johnson, D., and J. Arkko, "Mobility
Support in IPv6", RFC 6275, DOI 10.17487/RFC6275, July
2011, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6275>.
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[RFC8691] Benamar, N., Härri, J., Lee, J., and T. Ernst, "Basic
Support for IPv6 Networks Operating Outside the Context of
a Basic Service Set over IEEE Std 802.11", RFC 8691,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8691, December 2019,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8691>.
8.2. Informative References
[RFC2710] Deering, S., Fenner, W., and B. Haberman, "Multicast
Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6", RFC 2710,
DOI 10.17487/RFC2710, October 1999,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2710>.
[RFC3626] Clausen, T., Ed. and P. Jacquet, Ed., "Optimized Link
State Routing Protocol (OLSR)", RFC 3626,
DOI 10.17487/RFC3626, October 2003,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3626>.
[RFC3753] Manner, J., Ed. and M. Kojo, Ed., "Mobility Related
Terminology", RFC 3753, DOI 10.17487/RFC3753, June 2004,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3753>.
[RFC3810] Vida, R., Ed. and L. Costa, Ed., "Multicast Listener
Discovery Version 2 (MLDv2) for IPv6", RFC 3810,
DOI 10.17487/RFC3810, June 2004,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3810>.
[RFC3963] Devarapalli, V., Wakikawa, R., Petrescu, A., and P.
Thubert, "Network Mobility (NEMO) Basic Support Protocol",
RFC 3963, DOI 10.17487/RFC3963, January 2005,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3963>.
[RFC3971] Arkko, J., Ed., Kempf, J., Zill, B., and P. Nikander,
"SEcure Neighbor Discovery (SEND)", RFC 3971,
DOI 10.17487/RFC3971, March 2005,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3971>.
[RFC4086] Eastlake 3rd, D., Schiller, J., and S. Crocker,
"Randomness Requirements for Security", BCP 106, RFC 4086,
DOI 10.17487/RFC4086, June 2005,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4086>.
[RFC4193] Hinden, R. and B. Haberman, "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast
Addresses", RFC 4193, DOI 10.17487/RFC4193, October 2005,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4193>.
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[RFC4301] Kent, S. and K. Seo, "Security Architecture for the
Internet Protocol", RFC 4301, DOI 10.17487/RFC4301,
December 2005, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4301>.
[RFC4302] Kent, S., "IP Authentication Header", RFC 4302,
DOI 10.17487/RFC4302, December 2005,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4302>.
[RFC4303] Kent, S., "IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)",
RFC 4303, DOI 10.17487/RFC4303, December 2005,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4303>.
[RFC4308] Hoffman, P., "Cryptographic Suites for IPsec", RFC 4308,
DOI 10.17487/RFC4308, December 2005,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4308>.
[RFC4821] Mathis, M. and J. Heffner, "Packetization Layer Path MTU
Discovery", RFC 4821, DOI 10.17487/RFC4821, March 2007,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4821>.
[RFC4885] Ernst, T. and Y. H-Lach, "Network Mobility Support
Terminology", RFC 4885, DOI 10.17487/RFC4885, July 2007,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4885>.
[RFC4888] Ng, C., Thubert, P., Watari, M., and F. Zhao, "Network
Mobility Route Optimization Problem Statement", RFC 4888,
DOI 10.17487/RFC4888, July 2007,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4888>.
[RFC5213] Gundavelli, S., Ed., Leung, K., Devarapalli, V.,
Chowdhury, K., and B. Patil, "Proxy Mobile IPv6",
RFC 5213, DOI 10.17487/RFC5213, August 2008,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5213>.
[RFC5280] Cooper, D., Santesson, S., Farrell, S., Boeyen, S.,
Housley, R., and W. Polk, "Internet X.509 Public Key
Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List
(CRL) Profile", RFC 5280, DOI 10.17487/RFC5280, May 2008,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5280>.
[RFC5415] Calhoun, P., Ed., Montemurro, M., Ed., and D. Stanley,
Ed., "Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points
(CAPWAP) Protocol Specification", RFC 5415,
DOI 10.17487/RFC5415, March 2009,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5415>.
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[RFC5614] Ogier, R. and P. Spagnolo, "Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET)
Extension of OSPF Using Connected Dominating Set (CDS)
Flooding", RFC 5614, DOI 10.17487/RFC5614, August 2009,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5614>.
[RFC5881] Katz, D. and D. Ward, "Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
(BFD) for IPv4 and IPv6 (Single Hop)", RFC 5881,
DOI 10.17487/RFC5881, June 2010,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5881>.
[RFC5889] Baccelli, E., Ed. and M. Townsley, Ed., "IP Addressing
Model in Ad Hoc Networks", RFC 5889, DOI 10.17487/RFC5889,
September 2010, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5889>.
[RFC6130] Clausen, T., Dearlove, C., and J. Dean, "Mobile Ad Hoc
Network (MANET) Neighborhood Discovery Protocol (NHDP)",
RFC 6130, DOI 10.17487/RFC6130, April 2011,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6130>.
[RFC6250] Thaler, D., "Evolution of the IP Model", RFC 6250,
DOI 10.17487/RFC6250, May 2011,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6250>.
[RFC6550] Winter, T., Ed., Thubert, P., Ed., Brandt, A., Hui, J.,
Kelsey, R., Levis, P., Pister, K., Struik, R., Vasseur,
JP., and R. Alexander, "RPL: IPv6 Routing Protocol for
Low-Power and Lossy Networks", RFC 6550,
DOI 10.17487/RFC6550, March 2012,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6550>.
[RFC6583] Gashinsky, I., Jaeggli, J., and W. Kumari, "Operational
Neighbor Discovery Problems", RFC 6583,
DOI 10.17487/RFC6583, March 2012,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6583>.
[RFC6775] Shelby, Z., Ed., Chakrabarti, S., Nordmark, E., and C.
Bormann, "Neighbor Discovery Optimization for IPv6 over
Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPANs)",
RFC 6775, DOI 10.17487/RFC6775, November 2012,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6775>.
[RFC6959] McPherson, D., Baker, F., and J. Halpern, "Source Address
Validation Improvement (SAVI) Threat Scope", RFC 6959,
DOI 10.17487/RFC6959, May 2013,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6959>.
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[RFC7149] Boucadair, M. and C. Jacquenet, "Software-Defined
Networking: A Perspective from within a Service Provider
Environment", RFC 7149, DOI 10.17487/RFC7149, March 2014,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7149>.
[RFC7181] Clausen, T., Dearlove, C., Jacquet, P., and U. Herberg,
"The Optimized Link State Routing Protocol Version 2",
RFC 7181, DOI 10.17487/RFC7181, April 2014,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7181>.
[RFC7296] Kaufman, C., Hoffman, P., Nir, Y., Eronen, P., and T.
Kivinen, "Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2
(IKEv2)", STD 79, RFC 7296, DOI 10.17487/RFC7296, October
2014, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7296>.
[RFC7333] Chan, H., Ed., Liu, D., Seite, P., Yokota, H., and J.
Korhonen, "Requirements for Distributed Mobility
Management", RFC 7333, DOI 10.17487/RFC7333, August 2014,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7333>.
[RFC7429] Liu, D., Ed., Zuniga, JC., Ed., Seite, P., Chan, H., and
CJ. Bernardos, "Distributed Mobility Management: Current
Practices and Gap Analysis", RFC 7429,
DOI 10.17487/RFC7429, January 2015,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7429>.
[RFC7427] Kivinen, T. and J. Snyder, "Signature Authentication in
the Internet Key Exchange Version 2 (IKEv2)", RFC 7427,
DOI 10.17487/RFC7427, January 2015,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7427>.
[RFC7466] Dearlove, C. and T. Clausen, "An Optimization for the
Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) Neighborhood Discovery
Protocol (NHDP)", RFC 7466, DOI 10.17487/RFC7466, March
2015, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7466>.
[RFC7721] Cooper, A., Gont, F., and D. Thaler, "Security and Privacy
Considerations for IPv6 Address Generation Mechanisms",
RFC 7721, DOI 10.17487/RFC7721, March 2016,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7721>.
[RFC8002] Heer, T. and S. Varjonen, "Host Identity Protocol
Certificates", RFC 8002, DOI 10.17487/RFC8002, October
2016, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8002>.
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[RFC8028] Baker, F. and B. Carpenter, "First-Hop Router Selection by
Hosts in a Multi-Prefix Network", RFC 8028,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8028, November 2016,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8028>.
[RFC8175] Ratliff, S., Jury, S., Satterwhite, D., Taylor, R., and B.
Berry, "Dynamic Link Exchange Protocol (DLEP)", RFC 8175,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8175, June 2017,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8175>.
[RFC8200] Deering, S. and R. Hinden, "Internet Protocol, Version 6
(IPv6) Specification", STD 86, RFC 8200,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8200, July 2017,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8200>.
[RFC8446] Rescorla, E., "The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol
Version 1.3", RFC 8446, DOI 10.17487/RFC8446, August 2018,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8446>.
[RFC8505] Thubert, P., Ed., Nordmark, E., Chakrabarti, S., and C.
Perkins, "Registration Extensions for IPv6 over Low-Power
Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) Neighbor
Discovery", RFC 8505, DOI 10.17487/RFC8505, November 2018,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8505>.
[RFC8629] Cheng, B. and L. Berger, Ed., "Dynamic Link Exchange
Protocol (DLEP) Multi-Hop Forwarding Extension", RFC 8629,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8629, July 2019,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8629>.
[RFC8684] Ford, A., Raiciu, C., Handley, M., Bonaventure, O., and C.
Paasch, "TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with
Multiple Addresses", RFC 8684, DOI 10.17487/RFC8684, March
2020, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8684>.
[RFC8757] Cheng, B. and L. Berger, Ed., "Dynamic Link Exchange
Protocol (DLEP) Latency Range Extension", RFC 8757,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8757, March 2020,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8757>.
[RFC8899] Fairhurst, G., Jones, T., Tüxen, M., Rüngeler, I., and T.
Völker, "Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery for
Datagram Transports", RFC 8899, DOI 10.17487/RFC8899,
September 2020, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8899>.
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[RFC8928] Thubert, P., Ed., Sarikaya, B., Sethi, M., and R. Struik,
"Address-Protected Neighbor Discovery for Low-Power and
Lossy Networks", RFC 8928, DOI 10.17487/RFC8928, November
2020, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8928>.
[RFC8981] Gont, F., Krishnan, S., Narten, T., and R. Draves,
"Temporary Address Extensions for Stateless Address
Autoconfiguration in IPv6", RFC 8981,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8981, February 2021,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8981>.
[RFC9000] Iyengar, J., Ed. and M. Thomson, Ed., "QUIC: A UDP-Based
Multiplexed and Secure Transport", RFC 9000,
DOI 10.17487/RFC9000, May 2021,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9000>.
[RFC9119] Perkins, C., McBride, M., Stanley, D., Kumari, W., and JC.
Zúñiga, "Multicast Considerations over IEEE 802 Wireless
Media", RFC 9119, DOI 10.17487/RFC9119, October 2021,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9119>.
[I-D.ietf-intarea-ippl]
Nordmark, E., "IP over Intentionally Partially Partitioned
Links", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-
intarea-ippl-00, 30 March 2017,
<https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-intarea-ippl-
00.txt>.
[I-D.ietf-lisp-rfc6830bis]
Farinacci, D., Fuller, V., Meyer, D., Lewis, D., and A.
Cabellos, "The Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP)",
Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-lisp-
rfc6830bis-38, 7 May 2022,
<https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-lisp-
rfc6830bis-38.txt>.
[I-D.templin-6man-aero]
Templin, F., "Automatic Extended Route Optimization
(AERO)", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-templin-
6man-aero-63, 12 October 2022,
<https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-templin-6man-aero-
63.txt>.
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[I-D.templin-6man-omni]
Templin, F., "Transmission of IP Packets over Overlay
Multilink Network (OMNI) Interfaces", Work in Progress,
Internet-Draft, draft-templin-6man-omni-74, 12 October
2022, <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-templin-6man-
omni-74.txt>.
[I-D.templin-ipwave-uam-its]
Fred Templin, L., "Urban Air Mobility Implications for
Intelligent Transportation Systems", Work in Progress,
Internet-Draft, draft-templin-ipwave-uam-its-04, 4 January
2021, <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-templin-
ipwave-uam-its-04.txt>.
[I-D.templin-intarea-parcels]
Templin, F., "IP Parcels", Work in Progress, Internet-
Draft, draft-templin-intarea-parcels-16, 6 October 2022,
<https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-templin-intarea-
parcels-16.txt>.
[I-D.ietf-dmm-fpc-cpdp]
Matsushima, S., Bertz, L., Liebsch, M., Gundavelli, S.,
Moses, D., and E. Charles Perkins, "Protocol for
Forwarding Policy Configuration (FPC) in DMM", Work in
Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-dmm-fpc-cpdp-14, 22
September 2020, <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-
ietf-dmm-fpc-cpdp-14.txt>.
[I-D.thubert-6man-ipv6-over-wireless]
Thubert, P., "IPv6 Neighbor Discovery on Wireless
Networks", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-
thubert-6man-ipv6-over-wireless-12, 11 October 2022,
<https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thubert-6man-ipv6-
over-wireless-12.txt>.
[I-D.ietf-madinas-mac-address-randomization]
Zúñiga, J. C., Bernardos, C. J., and A. Andersdotter, "MAC
address randomization", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft,
draft-ietf-madinas-mac-address-randomization-04, 22
October 2022, <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-
madinas-mac-address-randomization-04.txt>.
[I-D.ietf-madinas-use-cases]
Henry, J. and Y. Lee, "Randomized and Changing MAC Address
Use Cases", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-
madinas-use-cases-03, 6 October 2022,
<https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-madinas-use-
cases-03.txt>.
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[I-D.jeong-ipwave-vehicular-neighbor-discovery]
Jeong, J. P., Shen, Y. C., Kwon, J., and S. Cespedes,
"Vehicular Neighbor Discovery for IP-Based Vehicular
Networks", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-jeong-
ipwave-vehicular-neighbor-discovery-14, 25 July 2022,
<https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-jeong-ipwave-
vehicular-neighbor-discovery-14.txt>.
[I-D.jeong-ipwave-vehicular-mobility-management]
Jeong, J. P., Mugabarigira, B. A., Shen, Y. C., and H.
Jung, "Vehicular Mobility Management for IP-Based
Vehicular Networks", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft,
draft-jeong-ipwave-vehicular-mobility-management-08, 25
July 2022, <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-jeong-
ipwave-vehicular-mobility-management-08.txt>.
[I-D.jeong-ipwave-security-privacy]
Jeong, J. P., Shen, Y. C., Jung, H., Park, J., and T. T.
Oh, "Basic Support for Security and Privacy in IP-Based
Vehicular Networks", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft,
draft-jeong-ipwave-security-privacy-06, 25 July 2022,
<https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-jeong-ipwave-
security-privacy-06.txt>.
[DSRC] ASTM International, "Standard Specification for
Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between
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Range Communications (DSRC) Medium Access Control (MAC)
and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications",
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[EU-2008-671-EC]
European Union, "Commission Decision of 5 August 2008 on
the Harmonised Use of Radio Spectrum in the 5875 - 5905
MHz Frequency Band for Safety-related Applications of
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August 2008.
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"Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and
Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications - Amendment 6:
Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments", IEEE Std
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[IEEE-802.11-OCB]
"Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and
Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications", IEEE Std
802.11-2016, December 2016.
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[WAVE-1609.0]
IEEE 1609 Working Group, "IEEE Guide for Wireless Access
in Vehicular Environments (WAVE) - Architecture", IEEE Std
1609.0-2013, March 2014.
[WAVE-1609.2]
IEEE 1609 Working Group, "IEEE Standard for Wireless
Access in Vehicular Environments - Security Services for
Applications and Management Messages", IEEE Std
1609.2-2016, March 2016.
[WAVE-1609.3]
IEEE 1609 Working Group, "IEEE Standard for Wireless
Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE) - Networking
Services", IEEE Std 1609.3-2016, April 2016.
[WAVE-1609.4]
IEEE 1609 Working Group, "IEEE Standard for Wireless
Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE) - Multi-Channel
Operation", IEEE Std 1609.4-2016, March 2016.
[ISO-ITS-IPv6]
ISO/TC 204, "Intelligent Transport Systems -
Communications Access for Land Mobiles (CALM) - IPv6
Networking", ISO 21210:2012, June 2012.
[ISO-ITS-IPv6-AMD1]
ISO/TC 204, "Intelligent Transport Systems -
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[TS-23.285-3GPP]
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TS 23.285/Version 16.2.0, December 2019.
[TR-22.886-3GPP]
3GPP, "Study on Enhancement of 3GPP Support for 5G V2X
Services", 3GPP TR 22.886/Version 16.2.0, December 2018.
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Appendix A. Support of Multiple Radio Technologies for V2V
Vehicular networks may consist of multiple radio technologies such as
DSRC and 5G V2X. Although a Layer-2 solution can provide support for
multihop communications in vehicular networks, the scalability issue
related to multihop forwarding still remains when vehicles need to
disseminate or forward packets toward multihop-away destinations. In
addition, the IPv6-based approach for V2V as a network layer protocol
can accommodate multiple radio technologies as MAC protocols, such as
DSRC and 5G V2X. Therefore, the existing IPv6 protocol can be
augmented through the addition of a virtual interface (e.g., OMNI
[I-D.templin-6man-omni] and DLEP [RFC8175]) and/or protocol changes
in order to support both wireless single-hop/multihop V2V
communications and multiple radio technologies in vehicular networks.
In such a way, vehicles can communicate with each other by V2V
communications to share either an emergency situation or road hazard
information in a highway having multiple kinds of radio technologies.
Appendix B. Support of Multihop V2X Networking
The multihop V2X networking can be supported by RPL (IPv6 Routing
Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks) [RFC6550] and Overlay
Multilink Network Interface (OMNI) [I-D.templin-6man-omni] with AERO
[I-D.templin-6man-aero] .
RPL defines an IPv6 routing protocol for low-power and lossy networks
(LLN), mostly designed for home automation routing, building
automation routing, industrial routing, and urban LLN routing. It
uses a Destination-Oriented Directed Acyclic Graph (DODAG) to
construct routing paths for hosts (e.g., IoT devices) in a network.
The DODAG uses an objective function (OF) for route selection and
optimization within the network. A user can use different routing
metrics to define an OF for a specific scenario. RPL supports
multipoint-to-point, point-to-multipoint, and point-to-point traffic,
and the major traffic flow is the multipoint-to-point traffic. For
example, in a highway scenario, a vehicle may not access an IP-RSU
directly because of the distance of the DSRC coverage (up to 1 km).
In this case, the RPL can be extended to support a multihop V2I since
a vehicle can take advantage of other vehicles as relay nodes to
reach the IP-RSU. Also, RPL can be extended to support both multihop
V2V and V2X in the similar way.
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RPL is primarily designed to minimize the control plane activity,
which is the relative amount of routing protocol exchanges versus
data traffic; this approach is beneficial for situations where the
power and bandwidth are scarce (e.g., an IoT LLN where RPL is
typically used today), but also in situations of high relative
mobility between the nodes in the network (also known as swarming,
e.g., within a variable set of vehicles with a similar global motion,
or a variable set of drones flying toward the same direction).
To reduce the routing exchanges, RPL leverages a Distance Vector (DV)
approach, which does not need a global knowledge of the topology, and
only optimizes the routes to and from the root, allowing Peer-to-Peer
(P2P) paths to be stretched. Although RPL installs its routes
proactively, it only maintains them lazily, that is, in reaction to
actual traffic, or as a slow background activity. Additionally, RPL
leverages the concept of an objective function (called OF), which
allows adapting the activity of the routing protocol to use cases,
e.g., type, speed, and quality of the radios. RPL does not need
converge, and provides connectivity to most nodes most of the time.
The default route toward the root is maintained aggressively and may
change while a packet progresses without causing loops, so the packet
will still reach the root. There are two modes for routing in RPL
such as non-storing mode and storing mode. In non-storing mode, a
node inside the mesh/swarm that changes its point(s) of attachment to
the graph informs the root with a single unicast packet flowing along
the default route, and the connectivity is restored immediately; this
mode is preferable for use cases where Internet connectivity is
dominant. On the other hand, in storing mode, the routing stretch is
reduced, for a better P2P connectivity, while the Internet
connectivity is restored more slowly, during the time for the DV
operation to operate hop-by-hop. While an RPL topology can quickly
scale up and down and fits the needs of mobility of vehicles, the
total performance of the system will also depend on how quickly a
node can form an address, join the mesh (including Authentication,
Authorization, and Accounting (AAA)), and manage its global mobility
to become reachable from another node outside the mesh.
OMNI defines a protocol for the transmission of IPv6 packets over
Overlay Multilink Network Interfaces that are virtual interfaces
governing multiple physical network interfaces. OMNI supports
multihop V2V communication between vehicles in multiple forwarding
hops via intermediate vehicles with OMNI links. It also supports
multihop V2I communication between a vehicle and an infrastructure
access point by multihop V2V communication. The OMNI interface
supports an NBMA link model where multihop V2V and V2I communications
use each mobile node's ULAs without need for any DAD or MLD
Messaging.
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In OMNI protocol, an OMNI virtual interface can have a ULA [RFC4193]
indeed, but wireless physical interfaces associated with the OMNI
virtual interface are using any prefix. The ULA supports both V2V
and V2I multihop forwarding within the vehicular network (e.g., via a
VANET routing protocol) while each vehicle can communicate with
Internet correspondents using global IPv6 addresses via OMNI
interface encapsulation over the wireless interface.
For the control traffic overhead for running both vehicular ND and a
VANET routing protocol, the AERO/OMNI approach may avoid this issue
by using MANET routing protocols only (i.e., no multicast of IPv6 ND
messaging) in the wireless underlay network while applying efficient
unicast IPv6 ND messaging in the OMNI overlay on an as-needed basis
for router discovery and NUD. This greatly reduces the overhead for
VANET-wide multicasting while providing agile accommodation for
dynamic topology changes.
Appendix C. Support of Mobility Management for V2I
The seamless application communication between two vehicles or
between a vehicle and an infrastructure node requires mobility
management in vehicular networks. The mobility management schemes
include a host-based mobility scheme, network-based mobility scheme,
and software-defined networking scheme.
In the host-based mobility scheme (e.g., MIPv6), an IP-RSU plays a
role of a home agent. On the other hand, in the network-based
mobility scheme (e.g., PMIPv6, an MA plays a role of a mobility
management controller such as a Local Mobility Anchor (LMA) in
PMIPv6, which also serves vehicles as a home agent, and an IP-RSU
plays a role of an access router such as a Mobile Access Gateway
(MAG) in PMIPv6 [RFC5213]. The host-based mobility scheme needs
client functionality in IPv6 stack of a vehicle as a mobile node for
mobility signaling message exchange between the vehicle and home
agent. On the other hand, the network-based mobility scheme does not
need such a client functionality for a vehicle because the network
infrastructure node (e.g., MAG in PMIPv6) as a proxy mobility agent
handles the mobility signaling message exchange with the home agent
(e.g., LMA in PMIPv6) for the sake of the vehicle.
There are a scalability issue and a route optimization issue in the
network-based mobility scheme (e.g., PMIPv6) when an MA covers a
large vehicular network governing many IP-RSUs. In this case, a
distributed mobility scheme (e.g., DMM [RFC7429]) can mitigate the
scalability issue by distributing multiple MAs in the vehicular
network such that they are positioned closer to vehicles for route
optimization and bottleneck mitigation in a central MA in the
network-based mobility scheme. All these mobility approaches (i.e.,
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a host-based mobility scheme, network-based mobility scheme, and
distributed mobility scheme) and a hybrid approach of a combination
of them need to provide an efficient mobility service to vehicles
moving fast and moving along with the relatively predictable
trajectories along the roadways.
In vehicular networks, the control plane can be separated from the
data plane for efficient mobility management and data forwarding by
using the concept of Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
[RFC7149][I-D.ietf-dmm-fpc-cpdp]. Note that Forwarding Policy
Configuration (FPC) in [I-D.ietf-dmm-fpc-cpdp], which is a flexible
mobility management system, can manage the separation of data-plane
and control-plane in DMM. In SDN, the control plane and data plane
are separated for the efficient management of forwarding elements
(e.g., switches and routers) where an SDN controller configures the
forwarding elements in a centralized way and they perform packet
forwarding according to their forwarding tables that are configured
by the SDN controller. An MA as an SDN controller needs to
efficiently configure and monitor its IP-RSUs and vehicles for
mobility management, location management, and security services.
Appendix D. Support of MTU Diversity for IP-based Vehicular Networks
The wireless and/or wired-line links in paths between both mobile
nodes and fixed network correspondents may configure a variety of
Maximum Transmission Units (MTUs), where all IPv6 links are required
to support a minimum MTU of 1280 octets and may support larger MTUs.
Unfortunately, determining the path MTU (i.e., the minimum link MTU
in the path) has proven to be inefficient and unreliable due to the
uncertain nature of the loss-oriented ICMPv6 messaging service used
for path MTU discovery. Recent developments have produced a more
reliable path MTU determination service for TCP [RFC4821] and UDP
[RFC8899] however the MTUs discovered are always limited by the most
restrictive link MTU in the path (often 1500 octets or smaller).
The AERO/OMNI service addresses the MTU issue by introducing a new
layer in the Internet architecture known as the "OMNI Adaptation
Layer (OAL)". The OAL allows end systems that configure an OMNI
interface to utilize a full 65535 octet MTU by leveraging the IPv6
fragmentation and reassembly service during encapsulation to produce
fragment sizes that are assured of traversing the path without loss
due to a size restriction. (This allows end systems to send packets
that are often much larger than the actual path MTU.)
Performance studies over the course of many decades have proven that
applications will see greater performance by sending smaller numbers
of large packets (as opposed to larger numbers of small packets) even
if fragmentation is needed. The OAL further supports even larger
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packet sizes through the IP Parcels construct
[I-D.templin-intarea-parcels] which provides "packets-in-packet"
encapsulation for a total size up to 4MB. Together, the OAL and IP
Parcels will provide a revolutionary new capability for greater
efficiency in both mobile and fixed networks. On the other hand, due
to the high dynamics of vehicular networks, a high packet loss may
not be able to be avoided. The high packet loss on IP parcels can
simultaneously cause multiple TCP sessions to experience packet re-
transmissions, session time-out, or re-establishment of the sessions.
Other protocols such as MPTCP and QUIC may also experience the
similar issue. A mechanism for mitigating this issue in OAL and IP
Parcels should be considered.
Appendix E. Acknowledgments
This work was supported by Institute of Information & Communications
Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP) grant funded by the Korea
MSIT (Ministry of Science and ICT) (R-20160222-002755, Cloud based
Security Intelligence Technology Development for the Customized
Security Service Provisioning).
This work was supported in part by the MSIT, Korea, under the ITRC
(Information Technology Research Center) support program (IITP-
2022-2017-0-01633) supervised by the IITP.
This work was supported in part by the IITP (2020-0-00395-003,
Standard Development of Blockchain based Network Management
Automation Technology).
This work was supported in part by the French research project
DataTweet (ANR-13-INFR-0008) and in part by the HIGHTS project funded
by the European Commission I (636537-H2020).
This work was supported in part by the Cisco University Research
Program Fund, Grant # 2019-199458 (3696), and by ANID Chile Basal
Project FB0008.
Appendix F. Contributors
This document is a group work of IPWAVE working group, greatly
benefiting from inputs and texts by Rex Buddenberg (Naval
Postgraduate School), Thierry Ernst (YoGoKo), Bokor Laszlo (Budapest
University of Technology and Economics), Jose Santa Lozanoi
(Universidad of Murcia), Richard Roy (MIT), Francois Simon (Pilot),
Sri Gundavelli (Cisco), Erik Nordmark, Dirk von Hugo (Deutsche
Telekom), Pascal Thubert (Cisco), Carlos Bernardos (UC3M), Russ
Housley (Vigil Security), Suresh Krishnan (Kaloom), Nancy Cam-Winget
(Cisco), Fred L. Templin (The Boeing Company), Jung-Soo Park (ETRI),
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Zeungil (Ben) Kim (Hyundai Motors), Kyoungjae Sun (Soongsil
University), Zhiwei Yan (CNNIC), YongJoon Joe (LSware), Peter E. Yee
(Akayla), and Erik Kline. The authors sincerely appreciate their
contributions.
The following are co-authors of this document:
Nabil Benamar -
Department of Computer Sciences, High School of Technology of Meknes,
Moulay Ismail University, Morocco, Phone: +212 6 70 83 22 36, Email:
benamar73@gmail.com
Sandra Cespedes -
NIC Chile Research Labs, Universidad de Chile, Av. Blanco Encalada
1975, Santiago, Chile, Phone: +56 2 29784093, Email:
scespede@niclabs.cl
Jerome Haerri -
Communication Systems Department, EURECOM, Sophia-Antipolis, France,
Phone: +33 4 93 00 81 34, Email: jerome.haerri@eurecom.fr
Dapeng Liu -
Alibaba, Beijing, Beijing 100022, China, Phone: +86 13911788933,
Email: max.ldp@alibaba-inc.com
Tae (Tom) Oh -
Department of Information Sciences and Technologies, Rochester
Institute of Technology, One Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY
14623-5603, USA, Phone: +1 585 475 7642, Email: Tom.Oh@rit.edu
Charles E. Perkins -
Futurewei Inc., 2330 Central Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95050, USA,
Phone: +1 408 330 4586, Email: charliep@computer.org
Alexandre Petrescu -
CEA, LIST, CEA Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, Ile-de-France 91190, France,
Phone: +33169089223, Email: Alexandre.Petrescu@cea.fr
Yiwen Chris Shen -
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Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Sungkyunkwan
University, 2066 Seobu-Ro, Jangan-Gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi-Do 16419,
Republic of Korea, Phone: +82 31 299 4106, Fax: +82 31 290 7996,
Email: chrisshen@skku.edu, URI: https://chrisshen.github.io
Michelle Wetterwald -
FBConsulting, 21, Route de Luxembourg, Wasserbillig, Luxembourg
L-6633, Luxembourg, Email: Michelle.Wetterwald@gmail.com
Author's Address
Jaehoon Paul Jeong (editor)
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Sungkyunkwan University
2066 Seobu-Ro, Jangan-Gu
Suwon
Gyeonggi-Do
16419
Republic of Korea
Phone: +82 31 299 4957
Email: pauljeong@skku.edu
URI: http://iotlab.skku.edu/people-jaehoon-jeong.php
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