Autonomous Vehicle Security Through Privacy Integrated Context Ontology(PICO)

Autonomous Vehicles (AV), Vehicular Network (VN), and Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) is becoming an emerging way of smart integrated network communication that continues to gain a lot of attention because of the benefits in terms of services, efficiency, productivity, and safety; such as avoiding accidents, traffic time management, and proactive navigation around obstacles or mishap on roads. Within the technological infrastructure, AVs, and Roadside Units (RSU) can communicate as a node, and share information such as safety warnings, location information, and traffic information for achieving and improving safety significantly at the cost of unresolved privacy and cybersecurity vulnerabilities that can lead to a fatal result or privacy breach. We provide an overview of Autonomous Vehicles, Vehicular Network, and Intelligent Transportation Systems with an illustration of potential services, and cybersecurity constraint by presenting the architecture and a Privacy Integrated Context Ontology (PICO) model as a strategy of addressing privacy challenges in contextual information exchanged due to Autonomous Vehicle interactions.