Networks on Road-Challenges in Securing Vehicular Ad hoc Networks

The fundamental component for the success of VANET (Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks) applications is routing since it must efficiently handle rapid topology changes and a fragmented network. On demand set up, fault tolerance and unconstrained connectivity are a couple of advantages that why mobile computing continues to enjoy rapid growth.However, it can be expected that security attacks are likely to increase in the coming future due to the more and more wirelss applications being developed and deployed on to the well-known expose nature of wireless medium. Thanks to the substantial research efforts carried out by the community so far, we make the following contribution in this paper. In this paper we are specifically taking real life application of mobile ad-hoc networks i.e. VANET (vehicular adhoc networks). We will present a novel infrastructure for vehicle communication on highway and propose some potential security challenges from a driver's perspective and car manufacturer's .We will introduce an exemplary approach to outline various challenges and some possible solution.