Blockchain-Based Privacy-Preserving Authentication Model Intelligent Transportation Systems

Abstract

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) have gained popularity due to smart services and applications to facilitate the users on the roads. The increasing growth of users in these networks created new and complex data processing, storage, security, and privacy concerns. These networks are using centralized edge, fog, or cloud architecture for data management. User privacy is compromised in these networks due to the increasing demands and service provider’s services. To ensure the data privacy, the centralized architectures are used without privacy regulations. In this paper, we present a Blockchain-based Privacy-Preserving Authentication (BPPAU) model for ITS networks to ensures users privacy and security. The proposed model provides data storage, data accessing, and processing management by using a blockchain smartcontract system, access control policy and on demand based functions. The proposed model is tested in a simulation environment to check its performance in terms of transaction cost with data size, transaction per second analysis with block time, and computational time analysis with several transactions.