Federated Learning for V2X Misbehavior Detection System in 5G Edge Networks

The emergence of 5G Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) has made it the predominant technology for enabling Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communications. As a result, this has created an opportunity for telecommunications service providers to leverage their pre-existing 5G network infrastructure, enabling them to provide Vehicle-to-Network (V2N) services. In this paper, we propose a new approach that enhances the security of 5G V2N services through the implementation of a Federated Learning V2X misbehavior detection system within the 5G core network. The proposed system aims to protect V2X application servers (V2X ASs) that are located in 5G edge networks against potential V2X attacks while leveraging the privacy and scalability advantages of Federated Learning. Our proposed model is compared, using extensive emulations, to other centralized and distributed approaches, achieving excellent results, which makes it feasible for deployment. Our proposal achieved a notable accuracy of 98.4%, while scoring an impressive 99.3% precision and 96.9% detection rate.