Table 6.

Abbreviations and Acronyms.

Acronyms	Definition
VANET	Vehicular Ad hoc Network
$\mathrm{S}-\mathrm{PECA}$	Secure Performance Enriched Channel Allocation
$\mathrm{S}-\mathrm{ENCCMA}$	Secure Non-Cooperative Cognitive Division Multiple Access
$\mathrm{TDMA}$	Time Division Multiple Access
$\mathrm{FDMA}$	Frequency Division Multiple Access
$\mathrm{RSA}$	Rivest–Shamir–Adleman
$\mathrm{CR}$	Cognitive Radio
V2V	Vehicle to Vehicle
$\mathrm{V}2\mathrm{I}$	Vehicle to Infrastructure
$\mathrm{V}2\mathrm{X}$	Vehicle to Everything
$\mathrm{OBU}$	On Board Unit
$\mathrm{RSU}$	Road-Side Unit
DSRC	dedicated short range communication
MAC	Medium Access Control
$\mathrm{MANET}$	Mobile Ad hoc Network
$\mathrm{FCC}$	Federal Communications Commission
$\mathrm{ITS}$	Intelligent Transportation Systems
$\mathrm{RFID}$	Radio-frequency identification
$\mathrm{WAVE}$	Wireless Access in Vehicular Environment
$\mathrm{GPS}$	Global Positioning System
LTE	Long-Term Evolution
V2N	Vehicle-to-Network
PLS	Physical Layer Security
$\mathrm{IoV}$	Internet of Vehicles
CRL	Certificate Revocation List
RIS	reconfigurable intelligent surface
$\mathrm{IoT}$	Internet of things
SVC	Secure VANET Communication
$\mathrm{NSCA}$	Non-Shared Channel Allocation
$\mathrm{ECC}$	Elliptical Curve Cryptography
$\mathrm{CRSA}$	Commutative RSA
CHR	City, Highway, and Rural
MS-Aloha	Mobile Slotted Aloha
VISSIM	Verkehr In Stadten Simulationsmodell
$\mathrm{EDF}-\mathrm{CSMA}$	Earliest Deadline First based Carrier Sense Multiple Access