“…There can be tens or even up to thousands of signatures within a short period of time, thus the notification messages induce a heavy message overhead. Group communications in VANETs, on the other hand, have been considered in three papers [Chim, Yiu, Hui, Jiang & Li (2009) ;Wasef & Shen (2008); Verma & Huang (2009)]. In [Chim, Yiu, Hui, Jiang & Li (2009)], a scheme is proposed to allow a set of vehicles to form a group with the help of an RSU such that subsequently, encrypted group messages can be broadcasted by any member to all other members without the intervention of RSU.…”