Includes bibliographical references and index.

Unlike any other book in this area, this book provides innovative solutions to security issues, making this book a must read for anyone working with or studying security measures. Vehicular Ad Hoc Network Security and Privacy mainly focuses on security and privacy issues related to vehicular communication systems. It begins with a comprehensive introduction to vehicular ad hoc network and its unique security threats and privacy concerns and then illustrates how to address those challenges in highly dynamic and large size wireless network environments from multiple perspectives. This book is richly illustrated with detailed designs and results for approaching security and privacy threats. Additional features of this book include: . An introduction to standardization and industry activities as well as government regulation in secure vehicular networking. Eight novel secure and privacy-preserving schemes for vehicular communications. Explorations into interdisciplinary methods by combining social science, cryptography, and privacy enhancing technique The authors have taken a non-traditional method toward securing communications, allowing for new research directions in security and privacy in VANETs, which will be helpful to students, researchers, and IT practitioners.