Context-Aware Trust Estimation for Realtime Crowdsensing Services in Vehicular Edge Networks

This work proposes a context-aware trust estimation scheme that can allow roadside units in a vehicular edge network to provide real-time crowdsensing services in a reliable manner by selectively using information from trustworthy sources. Our proposed scheme is novel in that its trust estimation does not require any prior knowledge towards vehicles on roads but quickly obtains an accurate trust value of each vehicle. To that end, we particularly leverage the concept of I-sharing which removes a cold-start problem during the system bootstrapping period. Based on an extensive simulation study, we prove that the proposed scheme outperforms its competitive counterpart and baseline models in terms of trust bias and malicious vehicle detection accuracy.