A Reliable Incentive Scheme Using Bitcoin on Cooperative Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

Youngho Park¹, Chul Sur², Hyunwoo Kim¹, and Kyung-Hyune Rhee¹⁺

¹Pukyong National University, Busan, Republic of Korea

{pyhoya, khrhee}@pknu.ac.kr, kper951@pukyong.ac.kr

²Busan University of Foreign Studies, Busan, Republic of Korea

kahlil@bufs.ac.kr

Abstract

One remarkable feature of vehicular ad hoc networks is an opportunistic message relaying by means of store-carry-forward manner which requires the cooperation of vehicles on the networks. However, we cannot be sure that all vehicles willingly contribute their computing resources to the networks for message forwarding with no rewards for their efforts. In addition, unfortunately, there may exist some selfish and greedy node which may not help others but tend to take their own gain. To resolve this challenge, incentive schemes are generally considered as the most promising solution. In this paper, we present an incentive scheme for cooperative vehicular network services by integrating with the Bitcoin system. Bitcoin is the first worldwide cryptocurrency and digital payment system whose implementation relies on cryptographic techniques, which makes it possible to develop a practical credit-based incentive scheme on the vehicular networks at a low cost.

Keywords: SDN, ICN, Network Survivability, Security

+: Corresponding author: Kyung-Hyune Rhee
Department of IT Convergence and Application Engineering, Pukyona National University, 45 Yongso-ro, Nam-gu, Busan, Republic of Korea, Tel: +82-51-629-6247

IT Convergence Practice (INPRA), Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 34-41, December 2017 [pdf]