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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">jucs</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3217/jucs-019-16-2385</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">23924</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
        </subj-group>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="scientific_subject">
          <subject>C.2.0 - General</subject>
          <subject>L.7 - UBIQUITOUS/PERVASIVE/MOBILE</subject>
        </subj-group>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>A Privacy Preserving Message Delivery Protocol Using Identity-Hidden Index in VDTNs</article-title>
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      <contrib-group content-type="authors">
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Park</surname>
            <given-names>Youngho</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">fpyhoya@pknu.ac.kr</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Sur</surname>
            <given-names>Chul</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Shin</surname>
            <given-names>Sanguk</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Rhee</surname>
            <given-names>Kyung-Hyune</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Seo</surname>
            <given-names>Changho</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Pukyong National University, Busan, Republic of Korea</addr-line>
        <institution>Pukyong National University</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Busan</addr-line>
        <country>Republic of Korea</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A2">
        <label>2</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Kongju National University, Chungcheongnam-Do, Republic of Korea</addr-line>
        <institution>Kongju National University</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Chungcheongnam-Do</addr-line>
        <country>Republic of Korea</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Youngho Park (<email xlink:type="simple">fpyhoya@pknu.ac.kr</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2013</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>01</day>
        <month>10</month>
        <year>2013</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>19</volume>
      <issue>16</issue>
      <fpage>2385</fpage>
      <lpage>2403</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/FF5E1CC0-99F5-5140-B3BE-191DDAEB0E1C">FF5E1CC0-99F5-5140-B3BE-191DDAEB0E1C</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/5506103">5506103</uri>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>15</day>
          <month>07</month>
          <year>2013</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>27</day>
          <month>09</month>
          <year>2013</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Youngho Park, Chul Sur, Sanguk Shin, Kyung-Hyune Rhee, Changho Seo</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Vehicular Delay Tolerant Networks (VDTNs) are characterized model of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks where vehicles disseminate messages through fixed relay nodes placed on roadside by utilizing a store-carry-forward method. In this paper, we propose a secure message delivery protocol for protecting receiver-location privacy in socialspot-based VDTN because location privacy is one of the most important security requirements. To design a simplified protocol, we eliminate the use of conventional pseudonym-based vehicle identification accompanied with a complex pseudonymous certificate management. Instead, we introduce an identity-hidden message indexing which enables a receiver vehicle to query a message whose destination is itself to the socialspot RSU without revealing its identity, and we make use of non-interactive key agreement scheme to establish a secure communication channel between message source and destination vehicles. Furthermore, we demonstrate experimental results to confirm the reduced cryptographic overhead and the effectiveness of privacy preservation for the proposed protocol.</p>
      </abstract>
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