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Table 1 List of abbreviations

From: Authentication strategies in vehicular communications: a taxonomy and framework

Abbreviation

Meaning

AES

Advanced Encryption Standard

ARIB

Association of Radio Industries and Businesses

BP

Baseline Pseudonymous

Brainpool

Brainpool Standard Curves and Curve Generation

CA

Certification Authority

CAN

Controller Area Network

CCH

Control Channel

C-ITS

Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems

CRL

Certificate Revocation List

CSMA/CA

Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance

DoS

Denial of Service

DOT

Department of Transportation

DSRC

Dedicated Short-Range Communications

DSSS

Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum

ECC

Elliptic Curve Cryptography

ECDLP

Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem

ECDSA

Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm

ECIES

Elliptic Curve Integrated Encryption Scheme

ECQV

Elliptic Curve Qu-Vanstone

EDCA

Enhanced Distributed Channel Access

ETSI

European Telecommunications Standards Institute

FHSS

Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum

GHz

GigaHertz

GPS

Global Positioning System

HMAC

Hash-based Message Authentication Code

I2V

Infrastructure-to-Vehicle

ICT

Information and Communication Technologies

ID-based

Identity-based

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

ITS

Intelligent Transportation Systems

ITS-RS

Intelligent Transportation Systems Radio Service

MAC

Message Authentication Code

MAC

Medium Access Control layer

MANET

Mobile Ad-hoc Network

MHz

MegaHertz

NIST

National Institute of Standards and Technology

OBU

On-Board Unit

PHY

Physical layer

PKI

Public-Key Infrastructure

RF

Radio Frequency

RL

Revocation List

RSSI

Received Signal Strength Indication

RSU

Road-Side Unit

SCH

Service Channels

SHA

Secure Hash Algorithms

SNR

Signal to Noise Ratio

TA

Trusted Authority

TDMA

Time Division Multiple Access

TESLA

Timed Efficient Stream Loss-tolerant Authentication

TPD

Tamper Proof Device

TSVC

Timed efficient and Secure Vehicular Communication

U.S.

United States

V2I

Vehicle-to-Infrastructure

V2V

Vehicle-to-Vehicle

VANET

Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks

VAST

VANET Authentication using Signatures and TESLA++

VC

Vehicular Communication

VIN

Vehicle Identification Number

WHO

World Health Organization

WLAN

Wireless Local Area Network