V2C: A Secure Vehicle to Cloud Framework for Virtualized and On-Demand Service Provisioning

Cloud computing has revolutionized the IT industry by enabling a virtualized resource provisioning model for organizations. The Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) provisioning model enables new ways of providing virtually isolated and on-demand networking capabilities in existing cloud provisioning models, resulting in best-effort performance, scalable data throughput, reduced latency, and reduced configuration complexity. In this paper we propose V2C, an elastic Vehicle-to-Cloud infrastructure that integrates NaaS into the automotive ecosystem and enables provisioning of vehicle-based services for automobile users. However, V2C introduces various security challenges and the main objective of this paper is to propose a secure provisioning model to address them.