The Intelligent Transportation System has become one of the most globally researched topics, with Connected and Autonomous Vehicles(CAV) at its core. The CAV applications can be improved by the study of vehicle platooning immune to realtime traffic and vehicular network losses. In this work, we explore the need to integrate the Network model and Platooning system model for highway environments. The proposed platoon model is designed to be adaptive in length, providing the node vehicles to merge and exit. This overcomes the assumption that all the platoon nodes should have a common source and destination. The challenges of the existingmore »
EFFICIENT BLOCKCHAIN AUTHENTICATION SCHEME FOR VANETS
As the use of autonomous vehicles increase, the transportation infrastructure
as a whole becomes more susceptible to cyber-attacks due to
the increase of components that can communicate with one another and
the Internet. It has been shown that autonomous vehicles benefit greatly
from cooperating to perform many cost and life-saving applications such
as tailgating, advanced collision warning, and even traffic routing. To
secure the transportation infrastructure against this increasing risk, this
paper presents an efficient blockchain scheme for vehicular ad-hoc networks
of autonomous vehicles. In the proposed scheme, every vehicle
maintains blocks generated by its platoon which contain transactions
that evaluate the actions of every vehicle. Thus, vehicles will possess
different blocks and thus different blockchains as they join and leave platoons.
No central blockchain is maintained. These blocks are used as
a token by the vehicle to gain access to future platoons. The proposed
scheme uses the Schnorr digital signature scheme to create a secure signature
and reach consensus within the platoon. It is proven to be secure
under the given assumptions.
- Award ID(s):
- 1837472
- Publication Date:
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10190266
- Journal Name:
- Critical Infrastructure Protection XIV.
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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