V-Guard: An Efficient Permissioned Blockchain for Achieving Consensus under Dynamic Memberships in V2X

TL;DR

V-Guard introduces an efficient permissioned blockchain that manages vehicular data consensus amidst dynamic vehicle memberships in V2X networks, combining membership management with data consensus for improved performance.

Contribution

It integrates membership management into the consensus process, enabling seamless data agreement despite changing vehicle memberships in V2X networks.

Findings

High throughput and low latency in dynamic environments

Seamless consensus under changing memberships

Concurrent transaction ordering and consensus

Abstract

This paper presents V-Guard, a new permissioned blockchain that achieves consensus for vehicular data under changing memberships, targeting the problem in V2X networks where vehicles are often intermittently connected on the roads. To achieve this goal, V-Guard integrates membership management into the consensus process for agreeing on data entries. It binds a data entry with a membership configuration profile that describes responsible vehicles for achieving consensus for the data entry. As such, V-Guard produces chained consensus results of both data entries and their residing membership profiles, which enables consensus to be achieved seamlessly under changing memberships. In addition, V-Guard separates the ordering of transactions from consensus, allowing concurrent ordering instances and periodic consensus instances to order and commit data entries. These features make V-Guard efficient for achieving consensus under dynamic memberships with high throughput and latency performance.