A Group Based Key Sharing and Management Algorithm for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

Table 1

User’s preferences.

User	Send to	Receive from	Criteria for new node
A	C, D, F, P, S	B, C, D, E, F, G, Q, P, S	N, N
B	A, C, P, S	A, C, P, S	N, Y
C	A, B, D, F, P, S	A, B, D, E, F, G, Q, P, S	N, Y
D	A, B, C, E, F, G, Q, P, S	A, B, C, F, S	Y, Y
E	A, B, G, P, S	A, B, G, P, S	Y, N
F	B, C, D, G, Q	A, B, D, E, G, Q	Y, Y
G	A, B, C, D, E, F, Q, P, S	A, B, C, D, E, F, Q, P, S	Y, N
Q	A, B, C, D, E, F, G, P, S	A, B, C, D	N, Y
P	B, C, D, F, G	B, C, D, F, G, Q	N, Y
S	A, B, C, D, E, F, G, Q, P	C, F, G, Q	Y, N