Research Article

A Novel Privacy-Preserving Authentication Protocol Using Bilinear Pairings for the VANET Environment

Table 7

Communication cost comparisons between the related research and our protocol.

ProtocolsVehicle authenticationMessage authentication

Wang and Yao [20]181 bytes352 bytes
Islam et al. [21]324 bytes388 bytes
Ahamed et al. [29]108 bytes288 bytes
The proposed120 bytes300 bytes