Patent ID: 8314718
Filing Date: 2012-11-20
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for efficiently processing messages staged for authentication in a security layer of a protocol stack in a wireless vehicle-to-vehicle communication system, the vehicle-to-vehicle communication system including a host vehicle receiver for receiving messages transmitted by one or more remote vehicles, the host receiver being configured to authenticate received messages in a security layer of a protocol stack, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a wireless message broadcast by a remote vehicle, the wireless message containing characteristic data of the remote vehicle; analyzing the characteristic data of the remote vehicle for determining whether the wireless message transmitted by the remote vehicle is in compliance with a predetermined parameter of the host vehicle; and discarding the wireless message prior to a transfer of the wireless message to the security layer in response to a determination that the wireless message transmitted by the remote vehicle is not in compliance with the predetermined parameter of the host vehicle, otherwise transferring the wireless message to the security layer.