Toward an Open Source Location Privacy Evaluation Framework for Vehicular Networks

Outline and present building blocks for a comprehensive open source location privacy evaluation framework to enable researchers to reproducibly assess the effectiveness of a given privacy protection algorithm. We also present a proof of concept evaluation. By extending the well established Veins simulation framework [4] that couples the traffic simulator SUMO and the network simulator OMNeT++ we allow for an easy setup and integration with existing simulation scenarios or already implemented protocols. We hope that our framework lowers the complexity of privacy evaluation and thereby makes certain protection measures more likely to be considered in future vehicular networks.