Blockchain-Based Trust Verification and Streaming Service Awareness for Big Data-Driven 5G and Beyond Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) Communication

Abstract

Vigorous security and transparency with minimum latency and a high data rate are some of the key requirements for 5G and beyond vehicular networks especially in case of big data-driven vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication applications which plays an important role in enabling advance intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and Internet of Vehicle (IoV) based network. The trace-ability in blockchain makes it one of the vital options, back-boned by the decentralized network to ensure independent security and privacy by exploiting the hash of a previous transaction with the time stamp and announcing it publicly for rejection of possible adversary attack. Therefore, in this work, we have opted for blockchains for trusted authentication and service awareness in 5G and beyond vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication-based vehicular networks to stream blocks by certifying privacy and security. Here, we have considered blockchain as intermediary trusted agent to witness communication between a vehicle node and edge node, where edge node also uploads microservices along with calling figure of microservices to the blockchain. Furthermore, to ensure vehicle privacy with joint verification of vehicular network and server, we have devised a mechanism in which every vehicle nodes anonymously ask for services from the edge server along with signing an individual’s identity. Moreover, based on generated vehicle requests and service awareness, we devised an improved edge cache scheme for the prior compilation of services at each edge. In comparison to the previous state-of-art work, the result shows that our proposed work handles the requests more efficiently to achieve a better service request cache hit rate generated by vehicles at the edge server.