B-DRIVE:A blockchain based distributed IoT network for smart urban transportation

作     者：Mohammed Zia Mohammed Zia

作者机构：GIScience ChairInstitute of GeographyUniversity of HeidelbergHeidelberg69120Germany 

出 版 物：《Blockchain(Research and Applications)》 (区块链研究（英文）)

年 卷 期：2021年第2卷第4期

页      面：37-48页

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学科分类：0809[工学-电子科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 08[工学] 

基　　金：I acknowledge financial support by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft within the funding programme Open Access Publishing  by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science  Research and the Arts and by Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. I am thankful to Prof. Dr. Charles M. Schweik (University of Massachusetts Amherst) for valuable proof reading and constructive feedback 

主　　题：Blockchain Open data Urban traffic Internet of Things Vehicle navigation 

摘      要：In this paper,I present B-DRIVE—a blockchain-based distributed IoT(Internet of Things)network for smart urban *** network is designed to connect a large fleet of IoT devices,installed on various vehicles and roadside infrastructures,to distributed data storage centers,called as Full-Nodes,to log and disseminate sensor generated *** connects devices from around the city to multiple Full-Nodes to log timestamped data into the *** sensors vary from GPS(Global Positioning System),air quality meter,gyrometer to speed cameras in order to facilitate efficient urban *** three identified hardware layers that comprise the network are the IoT layer,Storage layer,and User *** consist of Moving/Static-Nodes,Full-Nodes,and Smart devices,*** Moving/Static-Nodes are primarily made up of moving vehicles and road-side infrastructures,respectively,thus acting as various data ***,Full-Nodes and Smart devices are institutions and mobile phones,acting as data handler/disseminator and navigator/data visualizer,*** data,or data blocks,received by Full-Nodes get appended into Full and Running-Blockchain,meant for specific *** network is designed to be free from any block mining *** provides open access to anonymous sensor data to end-users,especially scientists,policy-makers and entrepreneurs,to develop innovative urban transportation *** is believed that a system like B-DRIVE,along with existing VANETs(Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks),is capable of answering some of the current urban transportation issues around traffic congestion,navigation,and vehicle *** applications of blockchain data could vary from user activity mapping to VGI(volunteered geographic information)data quality *** identified limitations of the presented architecture are the low processing power of current IoT devices and the lack of urban IoT infrastructure.