Trust based approaches for secure routing in VANET: A Survey

Vehicular Ad-hoc networks (VANETs) require trusted vehicles to vehicles communication. VANET is multidimensional network in which the vehicles continuously change their locations. Secure routing is imperative during the routing process to incorporate mutual trust between these nodes. Sometimes, the malicious node broadcast the bogus information among other nodes. Establishing trust is a challenge while one or more malicious nodes attempt to disrupt route discovery or data transmission in the network. A lot of research has been carried out for secure routing process with trust-based approaches. In this paper, we present survey of various mechanisms to improve different ad-hoc routing protocols for secure routing process by enhancing the trust among different nodes in VANETs. (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V.