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Vehicular networks with security and trust management solutions: proposed secured message exchange via blockchain technology

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In vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET), effective trust establishment with authentication is an important requirement. Trust management among communicating vehicles is significant for secure message transmission; however, very less contributions have been made towards evaluating the trustworthiness of the node. This research work intends to introduce a new trust management system in VANET with two major phases: secured message transmission and node trustability prediction. The security assured message passing is carried out by incorporating the privacy preservation model under the data sanitization process. The key used for the sanitization process is optimally tuned by a new hybrid algorithm termed Sea Lion Explored-Whale Optimization Algorithm, which is the combination of Whale Optimization Algorithm and Sea Lion Optimization Algorithm, respectively. The blockchain technology is assisted to handle the key generated by the nodes. Subsequently, the trustability of the node is evaluated under novel specifics “two-level evaluation process” with a rule-based and machine learning-based evaluation process. Finally, the performance of the proposed model is verified and proved over other conventional methods for certain measures.

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Abbreviations

5G:

Fifth generation

CRL:

Certificate revocation list

RSU:

Roadside unit

QoS:

Quality-of-service

P2P:

Peer-to-peer

BARS:

Blockchain-based anonymous reputation system

JSSDT:

Joint spectrum sensing and data transmission

IGHSOM:

Improved growing hierarchical self-organizing map

CL-PKS:

Certificateless public key signature

V2I:

Vehicle-to-infrastructure

HTM:

Hybrid trust model

MDS:

Misbehavior detection system

PoW:

Proof of work

MN:

Mobile node

OBU:

On board units

KCA:

Known ciphertext attack

CPA:

Chosen plaintext attack

CCA:

Chosen ciphertext attack

SOM:

Self organizing map

KPA:

Known plaintext attack

GHSOM:

Growing hierarchical self-organizing map

PDR:

Packet delivery rate

PFR:

Partnerships for renewables

RSSI:

Recieved signal strength indicator

VANET:

Vehicular ad hoc networks

CR-VANET:

Cognitive radio VANET

IDS:

Intrusion detection system

V2V:

Vehicle to vehicle

WOA:

Whale Optimization Algorithm

MCC:

Mobile cloud computing

NPV:

Net present value

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    Nisha Malik, Priyadarsi Nanda, Xiangjian He & Ren Ping Liu

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Malik, N., Nanda, P., He, X. et al. Vehicular networks with security and trust management solutions: proposed secured message exchange via blockchain technology. Wireless Netw 26, 4207–4226 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-020-02325-z

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