Survey on anonymous authentication mechanisms of VANET

Abstract

VANET has an attractive prospect,it faces serious security issues but at the same time.Access authentica-tion and privacy protection will play important roles to address the issues.A detailed survey on the literature anonymous authentication mechanisms of VANET in terms of their implementation approaches were presented such as anonymous credential and digital signature.The advantages and disadvantages of each mechanism were elabo-rated and the novel research directions were also given with the help of analysis.

Keywords

• VANET;access authentication;privacy protection;anonymous credential;digital signature