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Automotive Engineering ›› 2023, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (6): 944-953.doi: 10.19562/j.chinasae.qcgc.2023.06.005

Special Issue: 智能网联汽车技术专题-控制2023年

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Lightweight TSN Authentication and Authorization Communication Framework for Automotive Zonal Architecture

Ruiqi Lu1,3,Guoqi Xie1,4(),Xinzhong Liu2,3,Renfa Li1   

  1. 1.College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering,Hunan University,Key Laboratory for Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems of Hunan Province,Changsha  410082
    2.Control and Software Department,Technical Center,SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile Corporation,Liuzhou  545000
    3.School of Information Science and Engineering,Hunan Institute of Science and Technology,Yueyang  414000
    4.Research Institute of Hunan University in Chongqing,Chongqing  401135
  • Received:2023-02-26 Revised:2023-04-12 Online:2023-06-25 Published:2023-06-16
  • Contact: Guoqi Xie E-mail:xgqman @hnu.edu.cn

Abstract:

The demand for intelligent vehicles has driven the evolution of the automotive electrical/electronic (E/E) architecture towards the Zonal architecture based on time-sensitive networking (TSN). However, the development of networking has brought serious information security issues to data transmission. The three-layer information security protection modules provided by the TSN standard, which consist of flow filters, flow control gates, and flow meters, are essentially boundary firewall technology. Once the boundary is breached, the entire architecture will be exposed and paralyzed. Additionally, this protection technology generates excessive computational and communication overhead due to the multiple layers of processing. This paper proposes a lightweight TSN authentication and authorization communication framework for the automotive Zonal architecture, which employs a boundary-less approach to provide integrated protection against hijacking, tampering, and eavesdropping. A Zonal architecture prototype platform is built based on the NXP automotive-grade TSN switch chip SJA1105Q (as the central controller) and the NXP automotive-grade SoC LS1028A (as the zone controller), and the developed framework is deployed on this prototype platform. The security properties of the framework are verified using the ProVerif tool. The evaluation results based on the prototype platform show that the proposed framework outperforms existing automotive security communication frameworks in terms of computation and communication overhead.

Key words: automotive Zonal architecture, TSN, security, authentication and authorization