Poster Abstract: Chained of Things: A Secure and Dependable Design of Autonomous Vehicle Services

The rise of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) indicates that AVs are soon going to be the juggernaut in car industry. The state-of-the-art technology used by the AVs makes ride-sharing a prominent and flexible way for transportation. In this case, the customers (i.e., who are sharing the AV) and the AV all should come into the picture to verify each other. However, When a user requests for a ride share or rent, the responding AV/IoT device does not have the sufficient capability to store, process, or verify each other. In the existing security solutions, every AV/IoT device typically needs to rely on a trusted third party, which invokes another trust issue. If the trusted third party is rogue or loses credibility, the whole system will collapse. This research aims at exploiting Blockchain to provide a secure and reliable way to communicate among devices with trusts. We implement our proposed Blockchain-based solution and demonstrate the solution on a synthetic case study.