Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: Cooperative Security in Vehicular Communication Systems

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"Cooperative Security in Vehicular Communication Systems"
by M'Hamed Chammem, Mohamed Hamdi, Noureddine Boudriga
in the Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA) 2011, pp. 495-500

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles.

This paper contains significant portions of original text from the papers cited below. The original text was copied with insufficient attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper titles) and without permission.

Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper, and future references should be made to the following article:

"Stimulating Cooperation in Self-Organized Vehicular Networks"
by P. Caballero-Gil, J. Molina-Gil, C. Hernandez-Goya, C. Caballero-Gil
in the Proceedings of the 15th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC), 2009, pp. 346-349

"Enforcing Privacy Using Symmetric Random Key-Set in Vehicular Networks"
by Yong Xi, Kewei Sha, Weisong Shi, Loren Schwiebert and Tao Zhang
in the Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS), 2007, pp. 344-351


A Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network (VANET) is a form of Mobile ad-hoc network, to provide communications among nearby vehicles and between vehicles and nearby fixed roadside equipment. The key operation in VANETs is the broadcast of messages. Its main goal is to improve safety and comfort for passengers, but it can also be used for commercial applications. In this latter case, it will be necessary to motivate drivers to cooperate and contribute to packet forwarding in Vehicle-to-Vehicle and Vehicle-to-Roadside communications. This paper examines the problem, analyzes the drawbacks of known schemes and proposes a new secure incentive scheme to stimulate cooperation in VANETs, taking into account factors such as time and distance.