Smart cities (SCs) were founded on the basis of the Internet of Vehicles paradigm, aiming to enhance the quality of life. Despite not having a unique composition, the intelligent transportation services (ITS) is a key component in most of the SCs. The ITS integrates the new communication systems along with the traditional transportation systems, forming a universal network of static and vehicular entities communicating over wireless broadcast channels. In addition to its vulnerability to co-channel interference (CCI), eavesdropping, and fading, the vehicle-to-vehicle communication channels could be subjected to shadowed fading. That is due to the probabilistic obstruction by big vehicles. Hence, degrading the signal-to-noise ratio at the receiving vehicle severely. This work evaluates the secrecy performance of a practical cooperative vehicular relaying network in terms of its secrecy outage probability (SOP). Due to …