| VANET | Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network |
| 3VSR | Three Valued Secure Routing |
| AODV | Ad-Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing |
| ITS | Intelligent Transportation System |
| RSU | Remote Side Unit |
| OBU | Onboard Unit |
| V-2-V | Vehicle to Vehicle communication |
| V-2-R | Vehicular to RSU |
| V-2-I | Vehicle to Infrastructure |
| CCL | Central Cloud Layer |
| RCL | Remote Cloud Layer |
| VCL | Vehicle Cloud Layer |