In recent decades, the ad hoc network for vehicles has been a core network technology to provide comfort and security to drivers in vehicle environments. However, emerging applications and services require major changes in underlying network models and computing that require new road network planning. Meanwhile, blockchain widely known as one of the disruptive technologies has emerged in recent years, is experiencing rapid development and has the potential to revolutionize intelligent transport systems. Blockchain can be used to build an intelligent, secure, distributed and autonomous transport system. It allows better utilization of the infrastructure and resources of intelligent transport systems, particularly effective for crowdsourcing technology. In this paper, we proposes a vehicle network architecture based on blockchain in the smart city (Block-VN). Block-VN is a reliable and secure architecture that operates in a distributed way to build the new distributed transport management system. We are considering a new network system of vehicles, Block-VN, above them. In addition, we examine how the network of vehicles evolves with paradigms focused on networking and vehicular information. Finally, we discuss service scenarios and design principles for Block-VN.
Blockchain, widely known as one of the disruptive technologies emerged in recent years, is experiencing rapid development and has the full potential of revolutionizing the increasingly centralized intelligent transportation systems (ITS) in applications. Blockchain can be utilized to establish a secured, trusted and decentralized autonomous ITS ecosystem, creating better usage of the legacy ITS infrastructure and resources, especially effective for crowdsourcing technology. This paper conducts a preliminary study of Blockchain-based ITS (B2ITS). We outline an ITS-oriented, seven-layer conceptual model for blockchain, and on this basis address the key research issues in B2ITS. We consider that blockchain is one of the secured and trusted architectures for building the newly developed parallel transportation management systems (PtMS) , and thereby discuss the relationship between B2ITS and PtMS. Finally, we present a case study for blockchain-based realtime ride-sharing services. In our viewpoint, B2ITS represents the future trend of ITS research and practice, and this paper is aimed at stimulating further effort and providing helpful guidance and reference for future research works.
Benjamin Leiding, Parisa Memarmoshrefi, Dieter Hogrefe
Combining Vehicle Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) and Ethereum's blockchain-based application concepts enables transparent, self-managed and decentralized system which are self-regulating and in no need of a central managing authority.
Mobile Ad hoc network (MANET) is an autonomous system of mobile hosts (nodes) connected by wireless link forming a temporary network without the aid of any established infrastructure or centralized administration. Typical applications of MANETs are: emergency and rescue operations, disaster relief efforts, military operations and exploration mission where cellular infrastructure is unavailable. The main problem of mobile ad hoc networks is to design routing protocols allowing for communication between the hosts. The dynamic nature of ad hoc networks makes this problem especially challenging. Communication in MANET is multi-hop due to limited transmission range; this decentralized operation relies on the cooperative participations of all nodes. MANETs are considered as complex system characterized by high dynamic topology, local interactions, auto-organization and emergence. Modeling and simulation are very important in the design and development of distributed interacting system because of their particular stochastic nature. This article seeks to use agent-based tools for modeling ad hoc network. We focus on Netlogo, an important tool in the modeling and simulation domain of complex system. We have successfully implemented distributed Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm to solve the routing problem. Obtained Results show the quick convergence of Dijkstra's Algorithm to shortest paths relating a source node with all accessible destinations.
Vehicular communication and networking for intelligent transportation systems are emerging concept which allows forwarding of traffic information. Road traffic crashes are one of the largest problems being faced. VANET's are self-organized networks in which vehicles communicate with each other without the presence of any priori infrastructure. The proposed scheme aims to develop applications related to vehicular safety by providing information related to road and traffic. Vehicles share the surrounding information with each other. In this paper we include the development of self-managed VANET's that does not require the deployment of infrastructure with detection and warning about abnormal traffic condition by the secure routing of vehicles. Initially the vehicle registration is done using the public key generated by RSA algorithm. Then the verification of the vehicles is done using Zero Knowledge Proof algorithm and the attackers are also detected and eliminated from the network.
Lillian J. Ratliff, Roy Dong, Henrik Ohlsson, Álvaro A. Cárdenas · 5 authors
In the electricity grid, networked sensors which record and transmit increasingly high-granularity data are being deployed. In such a setting, privacy concerns are a natural consideration. In order to obtain the consumer's valuation of privacy, we design a screening mechanism consisting of a menu of contracts offered to the energy consumer with varying guarantees of privacy. The screening process is a means to segment customers. Finally, we design insurance contracts using the probability of a privacy breach to be offered by third-party insurance companies.
A Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) is a group of wireless mobile nodes that dynamically form a network without any pre-established infrastructure or centralized administration, Soewito (2014). Some network hops may be needed to send a packet from one node to another node in the MANET. To do the communication between the nodes, a route has to be selected in the network, therefore it need a routing protocol that manage selection of the route. Selection route in mobile ad-hoc network is not easy because nodes always move so that the topology of network always changed every time. This is a big issue in selection route in mobile ad-hoc network because the route can be broken anytime. Moreover, MANET is more vulnerable than other wireless communication types because every mobile node serves as both the host and the router and forwards packets on behalf of each other. This study presents the analyzing and evaluation several routing algorithms and a novel scheme to build an authentication system by adding the modified zero knowledge proof algorithm to each mobile node in MANET.
Existing location privacy-preserving methods, without a trusted third party, cannot resist conspiracy attacks and active attacks. This paper proposes a novel solution for location based service (LBS) in vehicular ad hoc network (VANET). Firstly, the relationship among anonymity degree, expected company area and vehicle density is discussed. Then, a companion set V is set up by k neighbor vehicles. Based on secure multi-party computation, each vehicle in V can compute the centroid, not revealing its location to each other. The centroid as a cloaking location is sent to LBS provider (P) and P returns a point of interest (POI). Due to a distributed secret sharing structure, P cannot obtain the positions of non-complicity vehicles by colluding with multiple internal vehicles. To detect fake data from dishonest vehicles, zero knowledge proof is adopted. Comparing with other related methods, our solution can resist passive and active attacks from internal and external nodes. It provides strong privacy protection for LBS in VANET.
The practical deployment of vehicular networks is still a pending issue. In this paper we describe a new self-organized method of authentication for VANETs, which allows their widespread, fast and secure implementation. Our proposal does not involve any central certification authority because the nodes themselves certify the validity of public keys of the other nodes. On the one hand we propose an algorithm that each node must use to choose the public key certificates for its local store. On the other hand, we also describe a new node authentication method based on a cryptographic protocol including a zero-knowledge proof that each node must use to convince another node on the possession of certain secret without revealing anything about it, which allows non-encrypted communication during authentication. Thanks to the combination of the aforementioned tools, the cooperation among vehicles can be used for developing several practical applications of VANETs, such as detection and warning about abnormal traffic conditions. One of the most interesting aspects of our proposal is that it only requires existing devices such as smartphones, because the designed schemes are fully distributed and self-organized. In this work we include an analysis of both an NS-2 simulation and a real device implementation of the proposed algorithms, which enables us to extract promising conclusions and several possible improvements and open questions for further research.
이동 통신 기술이 발달함에 따라 통신 기기간의 메시지 교환이 가능한 서비스가 생겨나고, 그 사용 횟수가 폭발적으로 늘고 있다. 기기간의 통신을 위해서는 통신 기기간의 서비스 구성원이라는 인증이 선행되어야 한다. 하지만, 기존 인증 기술은 Trusted party와 같은 제 삼자와의 통신이 수반되는데, 이로 인하여 대역폭이 낭비되거나, 기지국 범위 밖의 이동 통신 기기는 기기간 통신에 참여할 수 없다는 문제점이 발생할 수 있다.BR 본 논문에서는 제 삼자의 개입이 없는 새로운 이동 통신 기기간 인증 기법을 소개할 것이다. 제안된 기술에 대하여, 서비스의 가입 여부 및 서비스 가입 시간을 모두 검증해야 하므로, 이를 가능하게 하는 새로운 영지식 증명 기법을 개발하여 적용할 것이다. 또한, 이 영지식 증명 기법은 인증정보를 암호화된 그대로 검증하기 때문에 증명 하고자 하는 기기의 프라이버시가 보장이 되며, 질의-응답 방식을 사용하기 때문에 다른 기기의 인증 메시지를 재사용하는 공격으로부터 보호할 수 있다.
A secure anonymous authentication scheme was proposed based on elliptic curve and zero-knowledge proof,which adopts a bidirectional anonymous authentication algorithm to preserve users’ privacy during the certification process.In the case of a high density traffic scenario,a message aggregation technology was proposed to realize fast authentication by the assistant of RSU,and to avoid the loss of massive messages unauthenticated promptly.The simulation and analytical results show that the proposed scheme yields a much better performance than previously reported counterparts with lower communication overhead,message loss rate and message delay.
Gabriele Monti, Gianluca Moro, Marco Rosetti, Giacomo Tufano
The work presents a decentralized protocol that allows self-organization of autonomous wireless devices in mobile mesh networks. In the resulting infrastructure the routing and information services are provided in a peer-to- peer fashion. Both services are performed through multi- hop radio transmissions among participant nodes with no fixed infrastructure required and avoiding to use broadcast of messages. Since links among nodes may be continuously destroyed and created, as a consequence of nodes movement and/or variations in connectivity range (e.g. due to temporary obstacles), our protocol is based on virtual network addresses which are dynamically assigned to groups of nodes (called islands). Routing requests are performed through unicast transmissions when traveling among islands and exploiting wireless overhearing when involving members of the same island (in- island routing). We will demonstrate that assigning virtual coordinates to groups of nodes guarantees network flexibility with a reasonable amount of overheard and that the amount of radio transmissions required is scalable with the number of nodes. Simulations have shown that the proposed solution can generate reliable networks, despite the unpredictable topology, assuming the use of devices with common radio range connectivity moving at pedestrian velocity.
Jan 1, 2001·8th World Congress on Intelligent Transport SystemsITS America, ITS Australia, ERTICO (Intelligent Transport Systems and Services - Europe)
The Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan (TAO) has put the concept of the Smart Gateway (SG) forward as a way of realizing safety and comfort for the drivers of Japan. The system will provide a variety of information, such as multimedia information that doesn't require a guarantee of transmission within a particular period, and cruising assistance information that does require a guarantee of transmission within a particular period, for driver's safety. The roadside system that is a component of the SG is discussed here. There are two requirements for this system: the first is step-by-step construction, because implementing it all at once would be both difficult and expensive. The second is an urgent-message guarantee that ensures the delivery of emergency information such as cruising-assistance information, etc., to drivers in real time. An autonomous decentralized system (ADS) will be used to meet the first requirement. A highly reliable Quality of Service (HQoS) control method that dynamically determines the priority level of data in response to drivers' needs and then supplies information, is proposed to meet the latter requirement. The architecture of this roadside system, and the HQoS control method based on ADS concepts, is discussed in this paper.
Usman Khalil, Owais Ahmed Malik, Wee-Hong Ong, Mueen Uddin
The concept of smart city architecture requires a comprehensive solution that can combine real-time response applications for cyber-physical systems. However, the architecture faces challenges that can obstruct the operations in terms of systems, processes, and data flow as far as the breach risk is concerned. Though the field has been researched with the existence of centralized and distributed architectures to support smart cities. Research gaps regarding security concerns, platform assistance, and resource management continue to persist. This research article presents a novel blockchain-based architecture that proposes expansion in the non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to cater to the expansion of IoT-enabled smart assets. It enables NFTs to employ fog computing for all users and smart devices connected to a fog node in a cyber-physical system. The proposed expansion suggested in Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) for IoT assets representation in a cyber-physical system, provides devices and user identification and authentication functionality. The proposed NFT architecture has been designed to provide a smart city solution for cyber-physical systems that ensures robust security features (such as CIA) by introducing new attributes and functions for Owner, User, Fog, and IoT device/s authentication. The validation and rigor of the security services, efficiency, and latency have been achieved by deployments on private and public ledgers. The efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of the suggested functions and components have been evaluated in terms of evaluation cost and time complexity which resulted in promising results, obtained and validated on a testnet. The evaluation cost for the devised mint component was approximately 81%, and devised approve() was approximately 23% more efficient than other solutions.