An Efficient and Secure Blockchain Based Homomorphic Encryption for Intelligent Transport System

Abstract

<title>Abstract</title> The volume of automobiles on roadways keeps growing and crashes increase in frequency, managing traffic routes gets increasingly crucial. Real-time messages are delivered through wireless connections in Intelligent Transport Systems(ITS), although this might raise safety and confidentiality issues. Safety flaws, hefty data processing and transmission costs, and safety vulnerabilities plague current traffic route management ideas. With fog-based ITS's, a simple congestion routing management system was developed to overcome these problems. In this system, automobiles encrypted their travel courses using homomorphic encryption and transfer the secured data onto a fog node. Despite being aware of what specific path was taken by every automobile, Traffic Control Centre (TMC) decodes the received ciphertexts which have been collected by the fog node and manages congestion based on the decoded data. Additionally, the plan makes utilization of the blockchain system to maintain the vehicle's public key. This makes it possible to manage individual vehicle's public key securely and impenetrably, guaranteeing that only authorized cars may join the ITS. The idea was put into operation via the Rinkeby test network based on Ethereum to show that it is feasible. According to the results of the study, this aforementioned approach outperforms other pertinent representative schemes. This lightweight traffic route management system offers a safe and effective method for controlling travel routes in ITSs by utilizing homomorphic encryption and blockchain technology. By addressing the safety and confidentiality concerns raised by sending real-time communications via wireless methods, also lowers the computation and transmission costs of previous ideas. This approach has the potential to improve traffic safety and ease congestion in ITS's.