“…Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) is the vital component of the Intelligent Transportation System. Security and trustworthy communication amongst the components of VANET and further ITS is itself a challenging task [2] [24] [28].The applications of VANET are very diverse, not only to transfer safety, emergency messages, but also infotainment for the commuters, to make their journey a memorable experience [5]. The reliability of a system/network not only depends on its components but also on the architecture of the system/network [8] [27].Since 1960s, there exists many component importance measures in literature, the thorough review of the various importance measures available in the field of reliability engineering is given by Kuo and Zhu [1] [6].Component importance measures are classified on different basis such as structure [9],risk [11],reliability [12],joint importance [13].…”