Systems and methods for managing wireless communications by a vehicle

A non-transitory machine readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon, which when executed by a processing system of a vehicle, causes the processing system to perform one or more operations for a vehicle forming a local communications connection with a network node, the one or more operations comprising discovering, by the vehicle, the network node for establishment of a wireless network connection between the vehicle and the network node;

• exchanging one or more wireless communications with the network node to negotiate one or more parameters of the wireless network connection to be established, wherein the one or more wireless communications are encrypted using a shared network encryption key, and wherein the one or more parameters comprise at least one session key associated with the wireless network connection;
• establishing the wireless network connection with the network node;
• and
• exchanging wireless communications with the network node via the established wireless network connection, wherein at least a portion of contents of each wireless communication is encrypted using the at least one session key.

A vehicle, comprising:

• a transceiver for transmitting and receiving wireless message;
• and
• a processor communicably coupled with the transceiver, wherein the processor is configured to:
• discover a network node for establishment of a wireless network connection between the vehicle and the network node,
• exchange, using the transceiver, one or more wireless communications with the network node to negotiate one or more parameters of the wireless network connection to be established, wherein the one or more wireless communications are encrypted using a shared network encryption key, and wherein the one or more parameters comprise at least one session key associated with the wireless network connection,
• establish the wireless network connection with the network node, and
• exchange, using the transceiver, wireless communications with the network node via the established wireless network connection, wherein at least a portion of contents of each wireless communication is encrypted using the at least one session key.