Detection of Malicious Nodes (DMN) in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks

VANETs enable wireless communication among vehicles and vehicle to infrastructure. Its main objective is to render safety, comfort and convenience on the road. VANET is different from ad-hoc networks due to its unique characteristics. However, because of lack of infrastructure and centralized administration, it becomes vulnerable to misbehaviors. This greatly threatens ing such a useful network must provide adequate security measures for secure communication. The proposed algorithm DMN-Detection of Malicious Nodes in VANETs improves DMV Algorithm in terms of effective selection of verifiers for detection of malicious nodes and hence improves the network performance. © 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Peer-review under responsibility of organizing committee of the International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICICT 2014).