Security Attacks of Vehicular Networks

Abstract

The application of vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) improves driving safety and traffic management. Due to the above applications, security attacks on VANET can be serious threats all the time. VANET is a special form of mobile ad hoc network (MANET). Hence any attacks exist on MANET also can be arisen on VANET. Moreover, some special attacks can be raised on VANET, which do not exist on MANET. Nevertheless, some characteristics of VANET can be positive effects and some can be negative effects on security issues. Before designing the security mechanism to defend attacks, the authors should take the positive effects and avoid the negative effects on the security of VANET. Furthermore, the authors class all possible attacks of VANET from every network layer. They also introduce the reason of forming every attack and the possible effect on VANET in detail. Therefore this chapter helps understanding the latent threats and the useful resources of security issues on VANET.