Realizing robust interconnectivity in a rapidly changing network topology is a challenging issue. This problem is escalating with the existence of constrained devices in a vehicular environment. Several standards have been developed to support reliable communication between vehicular nodes as the IEEE 1609 WAVE stack. Mitigating the impact of security/mobility protocols on limited capability nodes is a crucial aspect. This paper examines the burden of maintaining authenticity service that associated with each handover process in a vehicular network. Accordingly, a network virtualization-based infrastructure is proposed which tackles the overhead of IEEE 1906 WAVE standard on constrained devices existed in vehicular network. The virtualized WAVE architecture migrates the overhead of authentication process to allocated physical resources devised in a logical network. The proposed infra- structure has managed to reduce the WAVE security overhead by 40%. In addition, the handover delay is minimized by 45% as the computation time associated with the authentication process is reduced.
