A blockchain-based vehicle-trust management framework under a crowdsourcing environment

  • Dawei Wang
  • , Xiao Chen
  • , Haiqin Wu
  • , Ruozhou Yu
  • , Yishi Zhao

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Abstract

Vehicular crowdsourcing networks (VCNs) enable vehicles to provide or obtain traffic-related services in a costefficient and flexible manner. Therefore, it is crucial to provide trusted management in VCNs for high reliability towards both service producers and consumers. However, most recent VCN platforms rely on a third party to manage crowdsourcing services which might be not fully trusted by users. For the issue, this paper proposes a blockchain-based trust management scheme for VCNs to provide a decentralized and trusted service management. A comprehensive trust evaluation model (TEM) is designed to quantify the trust degree of each vehicular node, and a vehicle-trust blockchain framework called VTchain is proposed to preserve the trust values of nodes while guaranteeing transparency and trustworthiness. Particularly, we leverage a trusted execution environment (TEE) to provide secure trust evaluation to tackle possible untrusted road-side units. In addition, we introduce TEM-based Proof of Trust to support blockchain maintenance, which works together with an efficient consensus algorithm Zyzzyva for improved scalability. Finally, extensive experiments are conducted by developing a testbed deployed on cloud servers for measurements.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2020 IEEE 19th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2020
EditorsGuojun Wang, Ryan Ko, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Yi Pan
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1950-1955
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781665403924
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event19th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2020 - Guangzhou, China
Duration: 29 Dec 20201 Jan 2021

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2020 IEEE 19th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2020

Conference

Conference19th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2020
Country/TerritoryChina
CityGuangzhou
Period29/12/201/01/21

Keywords

  • Blockchain
  • Trust management
  • Trusted execution environment
  • Vehicular crowdsourcing networks

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