Blockchain-based Reputation for Intelligent Transportation Systems

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 20; no. 3; p. 791
• Main Authors: Hîrţan, Liviu-Adrian, Dobre, Ciprian, González-Vélez, Horacio
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 31.01.2020; MDPI
• Subjects: Access control; Algorithms; Blockchain; Communication; Digital currencies; Information management; Intelligent transportation systems; Internet of Things; mobile crowdsensing; Peer to peer computing; Privacy; reputation; Reputation management; Sensors; smart cities; Traffic; trust; Validity; trust; Intelligent Transportation Systems; blockchain; mobile crowdsensing; smart cities; privacy; reputation
• ISSN: 1424-8220; 1424-8220
• DOI: 10.3390/s20030791

A disruptive technology often used in finance, Internet of Things (IoT) and healthcare, blockchain can reach consensus within a decentralised network-potentially composed of large amounts of unreliable nodes-and to permanently and irreversibly store data in a tamper-proof manner. In this paper, we present a reputation system for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). It considers the users interested in traffic information as the main actors of the architecture. They securely share their data which are collectively validated by other users. Users can choose to employ either such crowd-sourced validated data or data generated by the system to travel between two locations. The data saved is reliable, based on the providers' reputation and cannot be modified. We present results with a simulation for three cities: San Francisco, Rome and Beijing. We have demonstrated the impact of malicious attacks as the average speed decreased if erroneous information was stored in the blockchain as an implemented routing algorithm guides the honest cars on other free routes, and thus crowds other intersections.