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Blockchain-Enabled Privacy-Preserving Internet of Vehicles: Decentralized and Reputation-Based Network Architecture

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With the rapid growth of the transportation systems, the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) has evolved as a new theme in both industry and academia from traditional vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). However, the multi-sources and multi-domain information disseminated over the network has brought huge security issues for the communications in the IoV system. In this paper, we present a lightweight blockchain-based framework for IoV to meet the requirements of security, privacy and high availability. We propose a novel hierarchical data sharing framework where two types of sub-blockchain are formed allowing for flexible access control. In addition, we propose a reconfigured blockchain structure to acclimatize itself to the vehicular network which is composed of a number of lightweight and low-energy IoT devices. Moreover, we design a lightweight reputation-based consensus algorithm with a multi-weight reputation evaluation mechanism to prevent internal collusion of network nodes. Based on the proposed architecture, security analysis is illustrated to show the security and privacy of the proposed framework.

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Acknowledgment

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61802180, 61702236, 61872181), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (Grant No. BK20180421), the National Cryptography Development Fund (Grant No. MMJJ20180105), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. NE2018106).

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    Xinshu Ma, Chunpeng Ge & Zhe Liu

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Ma, X., Ge, C., Liu, Z. (2019). Blockchain-Enabled Privacy-Preserving Internet of Vehicles: Decentralized and Reputation-Based Network Architecture. In: Liu, J., Huang, X. (eds) Network and System Security. NSS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11928. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36938-5_20

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