$\mathcal {R}$-Tracing: Consortium Blockchain-Based Vehicle Reputation Management for Resistance to Malicious Attacks and Selfish Behaviors

Abstract

Empowered by 5G communication technology, high-speed information exchange can be realized on the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) for future intelligent transportation applications. Since most applications require vehicles to report perceived information to nearby base stations, how to defend against malicious attacks and selfish behaviors of vehicles in reporting activities has become an essential security issue. Some researchers have attempted to encourage vehicles to actively report truthful information by establishing reputations for them, but these efforts have some shortcomings. In model design, they neither verify the basis and process of reputation evaluation nor pay attention to the diversity and intelligence of vehicle behaviors. In system construction, they not only fail to meet the management needs of multi-party participation but also fail to provide verifiable reputation management services. In this paper, we propose <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mathcal{R}$</tex-math></inline-formula> -tracing, a consortium blockchain-based vehicle reputation management scheme. The main contribution of our work lies in three points. First, a vehicle reputation model is designed with a reward and punishment mechanism and a regular tax mechanism. Second, a vehicle reputation management system is constructed by using Hyperledger Fabric, in which all tasks of reputation value update are abstracted into three types of transactions. Finally, the effectiveness of <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mathcal{R}$</tex-math></inline-formula> -tracing is verified by extensive simulations running on a large-scale traffic scenario and performance evaluation on a prototype system. Compared with the typical linear reputation model, our model not only resists the usual malicious attack and selfish behavior but also effectively deals with the on-off attack and rational selfish behavior improved by intelligent vehicles. In the test of throughput, <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mathcal{R}$</tex-math></inline-formula> -tracing achieves 600/textittps, outperforming two state-of-the-art blockchain-based schemes.