Privacy Enabled and RSU Assisted Aggregation Scheme in VANET

In this paper, we provide a tradeoff solution to two conflicting requirements in VANET; Privacy and Aggregation. The information about traffic density is an important factor of aggregation in VANET. In our proposed scheme, densely located Road-Side Units (RSU) perform traffic density calculation and then aggregate the traffic information extracted from beacons received from the vehicles. RSUs then disseminate the aggregated traffic information to all the vehicles and neighbor RSUs. We use identityless beaconing thereby providing privacy and we do not consider the content security of beacons. We show that our scheme provides privacy in the case of aggregation, which has not been considered in previous schemes.