University of Tehran

The development of communication technologies and information processing have persuaded the developers of the transportation systems to use the capacities of communication technology in vehicles and monitoring units of this system. There is a growing trend toward using artificial intelligence (AI) in the transportation system to address human errors. Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) is one of the communication technologies used in the intelligent transportation system. However, if either the communication channels do not provide the desired functionality or attackers interfere in this system, this can cause condensible road hazards and risk people life. Therefore, designers of the VANET must guarantee the correct operation of the network in the event of a technical failure or an attack.

Given the potential peril, it is necessary to design a model to calculate the value of trust of nodes to each other and the value of trust of nodes to the received message. In this article, we review and analyze five approaches to build and manage trust in VANET. Finally, we provide a quantitative comparison of these approaches.

Course: Advanced Network Security

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