Vanet security : defense and detection, a review

Abstract EN

Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) are networks that deal with transferring data between moving vehicles in order to avoid accidents and to provide journey comfort and traffic safety.

Like all other networks it is subjects to vulnerable attacks, hence, security is a hot topic to consider.

This article provides a review on the researches and publications focusing on how to secure the communication between vehicles while transferring the data.

Different attacks could take place within the communication scenario; the most harmful of them is Sybil attack.

Therefore, in this paper, we shed lights on the researches dealing with the different types of attacks with a focus on Sybil attacks.

Sybil detection and defense techniques and methodologies are reviewed in more details.