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However, in traffic congestion scenarios, frequent mutual authentication increases the overall computing and communication overhead of the network. For this reason, in this work, we propose a lightweight RFID security fast authentication protocol for traffic congestion scenarios, designing an ownership transfer protocol to transfer access rights to vehicle tags in non-congestion scenarios. The edge server is used for authentication, and the elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) algorithm and the hash function are combined to ensure the security of vehicles\u2019 private data. The Scyther tool is used for the formal analysis of the proposed scheme, and this analysis shows that the proposed scheme can resist typical attacks in mobile communication of the IoV. Experimental results show that, compared to other RFID authentication protocols, the calculation and communication overheads of the tags proposed in this work are reduced by 66.35% in congested scenarios and 66.67% in non-congested scenarios, while the lowest are reduced by 32.71% and 50%, respectively. The results of this study demonstrate a significant reduction in the computational and communication overhead of tags while ensuring security.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s23115198","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,31]],"date-time":"2023-05-31T02:57:10Z","timestamp":1685501830000},"page":"5198","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["VASERP: An Adaptive, Lightweight, Secure, and Efficient RFID-Based Authentication Scheme for IoV"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"Yinyan","family":"Gong","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China"},{"name":"Hunan Key Laboratory for Service Computing and Novel Software Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kuanching","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China"},{"name":"Hunan Key Laboratory for Service Computing and Novel Software Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Lijun","family":"Xiao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jiahong","family":"Cai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China"},{"name":"Hunan Key Laboratory for Service Computing and Novel Software Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jiahong","family":"Xiao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China"},{"name":"Hunan Key Laboratory for Service Computing and Novel Software Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wei","family":"Liang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China"},{"name":"Hunan Key Laboratory for Service Computing and Novel Software Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Muhammad Khurram","family":"Khan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center of Excellence in Information Assurance, King Saud University, Riyadh 11653, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"389","DOI":"10.1109\/JIOT.2019.2950174","article-title":"TagSort: Accurate relative localization exploring RFID phase spectrum matching for Internet of Things","volume":"7","author":"Lai","year":"2019","journal-title":"IEEE Internet Things J."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3099","DOI":"10.1109\/JIOT.2020.3033473","article-title":"RFID reader anticollision based on distributed parallel particle swarm optimization","volume":"8","author":"Cao","year":"2020","journal-title":"IEEE Internet Things J."},{"key":"ref_3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Gupta, B.B., Gaurav, A., Mar\u00edn, E.C., and Alhalabi, W. 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