Paper Info
Title
Cyber-Physical Transactions: A Method for Securing VANETs with Blockchains
Abstract
Blockchains are used to perform state agreement in a distributed system. However, there is no way to validate off-chain actions, such as physical actions, in the current architecture. This paper proposes a new blockchain architecture which features locally physically-verified transactions. From this new architecture, this paper presents a protocol for securing vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) without the need to constantly communicate with roadside units (RSUs) or other infrastructure components. However, issues such as privacy in VANETs and Blockchains are left to future work. This paper shows the results from simulations of the current system in order to note its weaknesses. In particular, this paper can be used as a benchmark to show that ideas such as Proof-of-Work and full blockchain validation cannot work in a purely peer-to-peer VANET.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/PRDC.2018.00017
2018 IEEE 23rd Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Blockchain,Bitcoin,Vehicular ad hoc networks,Computer architecture,Sensors,Protocols
Architecture,Computer security,Computer science,Cyber-physical system,Blockchain,Vehicular ad hoc network,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1555-094X
978-1-5386-5700-3
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matthew Wagner110.73
Bruce McMillin226440.75