Secure data transmission between self-driving cars and cloud services through AIngle, a novel semantic distributed-ledger technology

Abstract

Abstract The realization of fully autonomous vehicles in great scale is already in sight. However, to be safe and reliable, autonomous driving requires a significant amount of communication with cloud services, which are prone to many kinds of failures and malicious attacks. This paper introduces the use of AIngle, a novel distributed-ledger technology developed to guarantee real-time encrypted communication among IoT devices. Not only AIngle tackles various kinds of malicious attacks by design, such as Sybil attacks, but it also enables semantic distributed applications (Sem D Apps). Sem D Apps decentralize supporting driving services, such as traffic and route mapping, which are typically centralized in cloud services. AIngle provides a new paradigm for Sem D Apps, that will support future-proofed, fast, reliable, intelligent distributed applications for the autonomous vehicle industry.