VANET thread based message trust model

Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) is an emerging technology which enables us to communicate with other vehicles on the go without any infrastructure. The lack of infrastructure imposes some serious challenges over researchers for instance; communication between the peers must be secure and protected against any false information. During communication between the vehicles the trust worthiness amongst vehicles is a very critical issue. The problem with VANETs is that they lack standards for trustworthiness of messages received from different vehicles. Before acting on any received message, it must be evaluated for truthfulness, as reacting on any malicious message could lead the driver to misguidance and can cause serious accidents. In this paper, we proposed a thread based trust model that will evaluate the trustworthiness of the message on the go. The model is based on creating multiple threads of single situation.