Table 1.

Acronyms used in the paper.

Notations	Description	Notations	Description	Notations	Description
IP	Internet Protocol	IoMT	Internet of Medical Things	IoV	Internet of Vehicles
SG	Smart grid	PUF	Physical unclonable function	V2X	Vehicle-to-everything
V2V	Vehicle-to-vehicle	VANET	Vehicular Adhoc Network	V2S	Vehicle-to-sensors
V2I	Vehicle-to-infrastructure	V2N	Vehicle-to-network	V2P	Vehicle-to-pedestrian
RFID	Radio-frequency identification	WiFi	Wireless Fidelity	NFC	Near-field communication
GPS	Global Positioning System	LTE	Long-Term Evolution	MAC	Media Access Control
M2M	Machine to machine	M2H	Machine to human	H2H	Human to human
DoS	Denial-of-service	DDoS	Distributed denial of service	BFA	Brute force attack
PUF	Physical unclonable functions	PKI	Public Key Infrastructure	AES	Advanced encryption standard
ABE	Attribute Based	MAC	Message Authentication Code	ECC	Elliptic Curve Cryptography
RSA	Rivest–Shamir–Adleman	PoW	Proof of work	PoS	Proof-of-Stake