Proposing a Secure Self-Fining Vehicle Using Blockchain and Vehicular Edge Computing

In recent years driving violations have increased in big and crowded cities specially in developing countries. This has resulted in the escalation of traffic congestions and number of accidents, making them difficult to handle by a central managing authority. New technologies can be used in order to mitigate this problem. Hence, in this article, we propose a novel concept, called self-fining vehicle, using blockchain infrastructure on top of the vehicular edge computing. Self-fining vehicle is a vehicle that detects and records driving violations, issues tickets, and pays fines without the need for a centralized management system. Violations can be coded into on-board units and detected by vehicular communications. The conceptual architecture of secure self-fining vehicle is proposed and discussed in this article. The proposed architecture improves violation data security, processing speed, and communication delay using encryption, authentication, blockchain, and edge computing (EC), enhancing quality of service and consumers’ quality of experience. The performance analysis of the proposed architecture proves its efficiency in terms of latency in service delivery.