Blockchain-based trust management for data exchange in internet of vehicle network

Internet of Vehicles (IoV) integrates with various heterogeneous nodes, such as connected vehicles, roadside units, etc., which establishes a distributed network. Vehicles are managed nodes providing all the services required during inter-vehicular communication which makes it essential to use a trust management mechanism. Existing trust management systems are insufficient to address the emerging IoV needs of transparency, mobility, immutability, and scalability. Motivated by the need to address the outlined issues, Proposed additive increase and multiplicative decrease (AIMD) trust management model, to improve the quality of communication, as well as vehicle trustworthiness based on multiple inter-vehicular interactions. The proposed layered architecture helps to reduce overhead in terms of latency and average execution time compared to other trust management mechanism and avoid risk of single point of failure. The Proposed AIMD trust management is implemented on permissioned blockchain, where transactions in the IoV network are only managed by minor nodes which accumulate interactions and uses PBFT and AIMD mechanism to derive immutable reputation score securely and transparently. Simulation results show the AIMD trust mechanism using permissioned blockchain can manage the trust of vehicles efficiently by reducing the latency by 0.29 sec, increasing packet delivery ratio from 0.8 to 0.95, and significantly reduce transaction finality time.