Modern vehicles are increasingly being interconnected with computer systems, which collect information both from vehicular sources and Internet services. Unfortunately, this creates a non negligible attack surface, which extends when vehicles are partly operated via smartphones. In this letter, a hierarchically distributed control system architecture which integrates a smartphone with classical embedded systems is presented, and an ad-hoc, end-to-end security layer is designed to demonstrate how a smartphone can interact securely with a modern vehicle without requiring modifications to the existing in-vehicle network. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach.
@article{Dardanelli2013A_Security,
title = {{A Security Layer for Smartphone-to-Vehicle Communication over Bluetooth}},
author = {Dardanelli, Andrea and Maggi, Federico and Tanelli, Mara and Zanero, Stefano and Savaresi, Sergio M and Kochanek, Roman and Holz, Thorsten},
month = {June},
year = {2013},
issn = {1943-0663},
journal = {Embedded Systems Letters},
number = {3},
pages = {34--37},
volume = {5}
}