Abstract
Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) are self-organizing wireless communication networks that allow vehicles to exchange traffic-related messages automatically with neigh-boring vehicles. The goals of VANETs are to aid road users and make traffic management more efficient. However, the open nature of the communication network medium that is used by VANETs exposes the messages in transit to security attacks and the information within to privacy breaches. Researchers proposed many security schemes in their attempt to solve the security and privacy issues in VANETs. However, most existing schemes suffer from high computation and communication overheads. We studied and analyzed the effect of one of the most common security attacks in VANETs, the replay attack. This paper presents the result of the study and analysis, as well as the survey of existing replay attack prevention schemes in VANETs.