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Table 4 Used notations

From: TSME: a trust-based security scheme for message exchange in vehicular Ad hoc networks

Notation

Meaning

N

A set of couples (ab) where a is a new, moving or failing vehicle and b, a vehicle detecting the failure or the arrival of vehicle a.

GL

The “initial” set of groups generated after the VGA setting up phase

Members

The set of members belonging to a given group of GL

\(V_{GH}\)

A GH vehicle

\(V_{m}\)

A member vehicle belonging to the set of members Members

\(S(\{V_{n}\})\)

The reputation score of a vehicle n belonging to N

\(Failure(\{V_{n}\})\)

The status of a vehicle n i.e. true if it fails otherwise false

\(|-^*\)

The reflexive application of the proposed inference rules