A survey of security, privacy and trust issues in vehicular computation offloading and their solutions using blockchain. [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
Continuous improvement in transportation systems and smart vehicles' appearance make new highly intensive applications. Complex applications need high-performance capabilities, real-time responses, and generate massive amounts of data to process and exchange. This presents the idea of vehicular...
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| description | Continuous improvement in transportation systems and smart vehicles' appearance make new highly intensive applications. Complex applications need high-performance capabilities, real-time responses, and generate massive amounts of data to process and exchange. This presents the idea of vehicular edge computing (VEC), which is proposed to handle complex applications and satisfy smart vehicle processing requirements. VEC enables computation offloading to an edge server to reduce communication latency, execution cost and energy consumption greatly. However, offloading to another node opens up new vulnerabilities regarding security and privacy. Moreover, trust issues in such an untrustworthy environment need an effective trust management solution and incentive mechanisms to improve overall security. This will increase the computation offloading success rate and the vehicles' willingness to share their resources. Particularly given the high transportability and heterogeneity of vehicular networks, the conventional security and trust management methods are inadequate. Blockchain, the rapidly emerging trend technology, is a unique solution that can help overcome security and privacy issues and meet trust management and incentive mechanism goals. Blockchain’s immutable distributed ledger, traceability, consensus validation system and smart contract features can improve vehicular network security. Although most research is focused on enhancing the performance of computation offloading algorithms, blockchain security solutions in computation offloading scenarios are not fully discussed. Thus, security and trust issues related to computation offloading in VEC environments need more consideration since supporting the new complex vehicular applications is essential. Therefore, this paper provides a review of recent surveys and studies, an overview of VEC, computation offloading and blockchain, in addition to discussing security, privacy and trust in vehicular networks and computation offloading while considering blockchain as a distributed security solution. We propose a new paradigm called blockchain edge of vehicle (BEoV) at the end, which enables several blockchain-based security services for vehicular computation offloading in particular. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8d726f5fc83742f2bf8ce13ac8548b662023-11-15T01:00:00ZengF1000 Research LtdOpen Research Europe2732-51212023-10-01318070A survey of security, privacy and trust issues in vehicular computation offloading and their solutions using blockchain. [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]Sharifah Yaqoub Fayi0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7368-5931Zhengguo Sheng1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2143-4003School of Engineering and Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton, England, BN1 9RH, UKSchool of Engineering and Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton, England, BN1 9RH, UKContinuous improvement in transportation systems and smart vehicles' appearance make new highly intensive applications. Complex applications need high-performance capabilities, real-time responses, and generate massive amounts of data to process and exchange. This presents the idea of vehicular edge computing (VEC), which is proposed to handle complex applications and satisfy smart vehicle processing requirements. VEC enables computation offloading to an edge server to reduce communication latency, execution cost and energy consumption greatly. However, offloading to another node opens up new vulnerabilities regarding security and privacy. Moreover, trust issues in such an untrustworthy environment need an effective trust management solution and incentive mechanisms to improve overall security. This will increase the computation offloading success rate and the vehicles' willingness to share their resources. Particularly given the high transportability and heterogeneity of vehicular networks, the conventional security and trust management methods are inadequate. Blockchain, the rapidly emerging trend technology, is a unique solution that can help overcome security and privacy issues and meet trust management and incentive mechanism goals. Blockchain’s immutable distributed ledger, traceability, consensus validation system and smart contract features can improve vehicular network security. Although most research is focused on enhancing the performance of computation offloading algorithms, blockchain security solutions in computation offloading scenarios are not fully discussed. Thus, security and trust issues related to computation offloading in VEC environments need more consideration since supporting the new complex vehicular applications is essential. Therefore, this paper provides a review of recent surveys and studies, an overview of VEC, computation offloading and blockchain, in addition to discussing security, privacy and trust in vehicular networks and computation offloading while considering blockchain as a distributed security solution. We propose a new paradigm called blockchain edge of vehicle (BEoV) at the end, which enables several blockchain-based security services for vehicular computation offloading in particular.https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/3-110/v2Vehicular network Security Privacy Trust computation offloading Blockchaineng |
| spellingShingle | Sharifah Yaqoub Fayi Zhengguo Sheng A survey of security, privacy and trust issues in vehicular computation offloading and their solutions using blockchain. [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] Open Research Europe Vehicular network Security Privacy Trust computation offloading Blockchain eng |
| title | A survey of security, privacy and trust issues in vehicular computation offloading and their solutions using blockchain. [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] |
| title_full | A survey of security, privacy and trust issues in vehicular computation offloading and their solutions using blockchain. [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] |
| title_fullStr | A survey of security, privacy and trust issues in vehicular computation offloading and their solutions using blockchain. [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] |
| title_full_unstemmed | A survey of security, privacy and trust issues in vehicular computation offloading and their solutions using blockchain. [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] |
| title_short | A survey of security, privacy and trust issues in vehicular computation offloading and their solutions using blockchain. [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] |
| title_sort | survey of security privacy and trust issues in vehicular computation offloading and their solutions using blockchain version 2 peer review 2 approved |
| topic | Vehicular network Security Privacy Trust computation offloading Blockchain eng |
| url | https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/3-110/v2 |
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