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Incentive-Driven Approach for Misbehavior Avoidance in Vehicular Networks

Shahid Sultan¹, Qaisar Javaid¹, Eid Rehman^2,*, Ahmad Aziz Alahmadi³, Nasim Ullah³, Wakeel Khan⁴

1 Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, International Islamic University, Islamabad, 44000, Pakistan
2 Department of Software Engineering, Foundation University Islamabad, 44000, Pakistan
3 Department of Electrical Engineering, Taif University KSA Taif, 21944, Saudi Arabia
4 Department of Electrical Engineering, Foundation University Islamabad, 44000, Pakistan

* Corresponding Author: Eid Rehman. Email:

Computers, Materials & Continua 2022, 70(3), 6089-6106. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2022.021374

Received 01 July 2021; Accepted 20 August 2021; Issue published 11 October 2021

Abstract

For efficient and robust information exchange in the vehicular ad-hoc network, a secure and trusted incentive reward is needed to avoid and reduce the intensity of misbehaving nodes and congestion especially in the case where the periodic beacons exploit the channel. In addition, we cannot be sure that all vehicular nodes eagerly share their communication assets to the system for message dissemination without any rewards. Unfortunately, there may be some misbehaving nodes and due to their selfish and greedy approach, these nodes may not help others on the network. To deal with this challenge, trust-based misbehavior avoidance schemes are generally reflected as the capable resolution. In this paper, we employed a fair incentive mechanism for cooperation aware vehicular communication systems. In order to deploy a comprehensive credit based rewarding scheme, the proposed reward-based scheme fully depends on secure and reliable cryptographic procedures. In order to achieve the security goals, we used the cryptographic scheme to generate a certified public key for the authenticity of every message exchange over the network. We evaluated the friction of misbehaving vehicles and the effect of rewarding schemes in context with honest messages dissemination over the network.

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