Table 5 Communication cost comparison.

From: A lightweight certificateless aggregate signature scheme without pairing for VANETs

Scheme

Individual Signature

Zhu et al.33

3\(\vert G \vert\) + 2 \(\vert Z_q^*\vert\)

Zheng et al.27

4\(\vert G \vert\) + 3 \(\vert Z_q^*\vert\)

\(\Gamma\)-\(\hbox {signature}^*\)

4\(\vert G \vert\) + 3\(\vert Z_q^*\vert\)

Mei et al.30

4\(\vert G_1\vert\) + 2\(\vert Z_q^*\vert\)

Zhong et al.31

4\(\vert G_1 \vert\) + \(\vert Z_q^*\vert\)

Kumar et al.32

5\(\vert G_1 \vert\) + \(\vert Z_q^*\vert\)

Wang et al.22

3\(\vert G_1 \vert\) + 2 \(\vert Z_q^*\vert\)

Our Scheme

3\(\vert G \vert\) + 3 \(\vert Z_q^*\vert\)