TITLE:
Toward Secure Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks an Overview and Comparative Study
AUTHORS:
Yousef Al-Raba’nah, Mohammed Al-Refai
KEYWORDS:
VANETs, Security, Authentication, Privacy, Attacks
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Computer and Communications,
Vol.4 No.16,
December
9,
2016
ABSTRACT: Significant increasing in the number of
vehicle accidents around the world and the resulting losses in both aspects
human and material necessitate us to find efficient, innovative solutions to
this passive phenomenon. Vehicular Ad hoc NETwork (VANET) is an emerging
technology that attracts many research interests in the field of wireless
communications due to its benefits in providing more road safety and enhancing
traffic management. Security is one of the most critical issues that face
VANETs. VANETs are vulnerable to different types of attacks as long as they are
still a fertile area for attackers to compromise the network with their
malicious attacks. However, to build robustness networks, a vital issue that
needs to be taken into consideration is to make the networks resistant to
security attacks. This paper presents an introduction to VANETs and its
structure and provides an overview of fundamental security challenges and
requirements in VANETs. It also discusses and investigates major security
attacks and its effects on the security requirements. Afterwards, it studies,
compares and finally classifies a variety of possible countermeasures that have
been proposed to cope with these attacks.