Research Article

A Novel Identity-Based Mutual Authentication Scheme for Vehicle Ad Hoc Networks

Table 1

The notations and explanations.

NationsExplanations

Trusted authority
Trusted authority
VVehicle
Additive groups
Multiplicative groups
Arbitrary generators of the additive group
Orders of the multiplicative group
Public and private key pair of
Public and private key pair of
Bilinear pair
Hash functions
Real identifier
Pseudo identifier
Entity sends to entity
Public key encryption
Symmetric encryption
Random numbers
IBC public and private key pair of vehicle V
RSA public and private key pair of vehicle V
Valid time
Current timestamp
Large prime numbers
Ciphertext
Communication message
Session key