Multicriteria-Based Location Privacy Preservation in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

Algorithm 1

(phantom node selection).

1. Initialization phase

2. Source node starts transmission

 Next hop = null

3. While (next hop =! Phantom node)

 ANP process is executed for all possible

 comparison

 Select phantom node

  If (next hop = update)

   Phantom node = update

   PN = Ac + TL + SL + AL + DL + Dr

   \\PN is determined using alternative ranking

  Else

   Broadcast beacon message

4. end