A Pseudonym Management System to Achieve Anonymity in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks.

In this paper we propose a framework for providing anonymity to communicating cars in VANETs. The anonymity is accomplished based on a system of pseudonym generation, distribution, and replenishing. The road side units (RSUs) play a key role in the framework by receiving the originally generated pseudonyms from the trusted authority, and then distributing pseudonym sets to cars while shuffling the...