Research Article

An Improved and Privacy-Preserving Mutual Authentication Scheme with Forward Secrecy in VANETs

Table 6

The comparison of communication cost.

SchemesBroadcasting single signature (bytes)Broadcasting n signatures (bytes)

Ali and Li [38]408408n
Zhong et al. [37]644644n
Cui et al. [6]100100n
Our scheme168168n