Reliable Community Card System for Detecting and Isolating Selfish
Vehicles in SCC-Based VDTN's
Abstract
Smart and Connected Communities (SCC) is a new area of the Internet of
Things (IoT) with the potential to improve people’s lives. The goal of
developing SCC for a community is to encourage people to focus on the
present, consider the future, and reflect on the past. In SCC, nodes
(vehicles) can use their mobility to collect data from interconnected
devices and send it to a variety of delay-tolerant applications.
Vehicular Delay Tolerant Networks (VDTN’s) are an ideal fit for such
services. However, the problem is that the devices and nodes (vehicles),
having limited resources, may become unwilling to cooperate due to their
selfish behaviour. This article presents a Reliable Community Card
System (RCCS) with two main parts: a reliable community and
Community-Based Card Tracking System (CBCTS). The reliable community
contains all trustworthy vehicles with a certain level of community
reputation determined by their honesty level. In CBCTS, every vehicle
needs a community card to participate in the network and the
neighbouring vehicles act as monitoring vehicle. The evaluation results
show that the proposed RCCS is quite effective, with detection time and
packet delivery. Similarly, it causes minimal overhead and energy
consumption compared to all other existing techniques.