Towards Secure, Decentralised, and Privacy Friendly Forensic Analysis of Vehicular Data

The automotive industry has been transformed through technological progress during the past decade. Vehicles are equipped with multiple computing devices that offer safety, driving assistance, or multimedia services. Despite these advancements, when an incident occurs, such as a car crash, the invol...

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Autores principales: Lydia Negka, Georgios Spathoulas
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:6d145f23cdee48d19f67e55f459b9d8c2021-11-11T19:01:37ZTowards Secure, Decentralised, and Privacy Friendly Forensic Analysis of Vehicular Data10.3390/s212169811424-8220https://doaj.org/article/6d145f23cdee48d19f67e55f459b9d8c2021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/21/6981https://doaj.org/toc/1424-8220The automotive industry has been transformed through technological progress during the past decade. Vehicles are equipped with multiple computing devices that offer safety, driving assistance, or multimedia services. Despite these advancements, when an incident occurs, such as a car crash, the involved parties often do not take advantage of the technological capabilities of modern vehicles and attempt to assign liability for the incident to a specific vehicle based upon witness statements. In this paper, we propose a secure, decentralized, blockchain-based platform that can be employed to store encrypted position and velocity values for vehicles in a smart city environment. Such data can be decrypted when the need arises, either through the vehicle driver’s consent or through the consensus of different authorities. The proposed platform also offers an automated way to resolve disputes between involved parties. A simulation has been conducted upon a mobility traffic dataset for a typical day in the city of Cologne to assess the applicability of the proposed methodology to real-world scenarios and the infrastructure requirements that such an application would have.Lydia NegkaGeorgios SpathoulasMDPI AGarticleforensicsvehicularblockchainintegrityautomationprivacyChemical technologyTP1-1185ENSensors, Vol 21, Iss 6981, p 6981 (2021)
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topic forensics
vehicular
blockchain
integrity
automation
privacy
Chemical technology
TP1-1185
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vehicular
blockchain
integrity
automation
privacy
Chemical technology
TP1-1185
Lydia Negka
Georgios Spathoulas
Towards Secure, Decentralised, and Privacy Friendly Forensic Analysis of Vehicular Data
description The automotive industry has been transformed through technological progress during the past decade. Vehicles are equipped with multiple computing devices that offer safety, driving assistance, or multimedia services. Despite these advancements, when an incident occurs, such as a car crash, the involved parties often do not take advantage of the technological capabilities of modern vehicles and attempt to assign liability for the incident to a specific vehicle based upon witness statements. In this paper, we propose a secure, decentralized, blockchain-based platform that can be employed to store encrypted position and velocity values for vehicles in a smart city environment. Such data can be decrypted when the need arises, either through the vehicle driver’s consent or through the consensus of different authorities. The proposed platform also offers an automated way to resolve disputes between involved parties. A simulation has been conducted upon a mobility traffic dataset for a typical day in the city of Cologne to assess the applicability of the proposed methodology to real-world scenarios and the infrastructure requirements that such an application would have.
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Georgios Spathoulas
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title Towards Secure, Decentralised, and Privacy Friendly Forensic Analysis of Vehicular Data
title_short Towards Secure, Decentralised, and Privacy Friendly Forensic Analysis of Vehicular Data
title_full Towards Secure, Decentralised, and Privacy Friendly Forensic Analysis of Vehicular Data
title_fullStr Towards Secure, Decentralised, and Privacy Friendly Forensic Analysis of Vehicular Data
title_full_unstemmed Towards Secure, Decentralised, and Privacy Friendly Forensic Analysis of Vehicular Data
title_sort towards secure, decentralised, and privacy friendly forensic analysis of vehicular data
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