Intelligent Vehicle-Trust Point: Reward based Intelligent Vehicle Communication using Blockchain

TL;DR

This paper proposes a blockchain-based reward system called IV-TP to enhance trust, security, and data reliability in intelligent vehicle communication, addressing vulnerabilities in traditional methods.

Contribution

It introduces a novel IV-TP mechanism utilizing blockchain for trust and reliability in vehicle communication, including a reward system for successful data exchanges.

Findings

IV-TP improves trustworthiness of vehicle behavior data

Blockchain ensures secure and reliable storage of IV-TP details

The system effectively manages trust in vehicle communication scenarios

Abstract

The Intelligent vehicle (IV) is experiencing revolutionary growth in research and industry, but it still suffers from many security vulnerabilities. Traditional security methods are incapable to provide secure IV communication. The major issues in IV communication, are trust, data accuracy and reliability of communication data in the communication channel. Blockchain technology works for the crypto currency, Bit-coin, which is recently used to build trust and reliability in peer-to-peer networks having similar topologies as IV Communication. In this paper, we are proposing, Intelligent Vehicle-Trust Point (IV-TP) mechanism for IV communication among IVs using Blockchain technology. The IVs communicated data provides security and reliability using our proposed IV-TP. Our IV-TP mechanism provides trustworthiness for vehicles behavior, and vehicles legal and illegal action. Our proposal presents a reward based system, an exchange of some IV-TP among IVs, during successful communication. For the data management of the IV-TP, we are using blockchain technology in the intelligent transportation system (ITS), which stores all IV-TP details of every vehicle and is accessed ubiquitously by IVs. In this paper, we evaluate our proposal with the help of intersection use case scenario for intelligent vehicles communication.