A taxonomy for DOS attacks in VANET

Abstract

Vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET) has become an attractive topic in fields of academia and industry due to its potential role in helping to improve traffic management and safety on the road. The information transmitted over a vehicular network is sensitive and can affect important safety decisions. However, they face various types of security attacks, such as Denial of Service (DOS) attacks. DOS and distributed DOS attacks are a rapidly growing problem and offer an important point of consideration as such attacks do not require the penetration of the target network. In this paper, we explore DOS in VANET to propose taxonomy as a means of identifying the attacker, its capabilities, the target, the type of vulnerability used for attack, and the impact on the victim.