Blockchain Node Segmentation for Vehicle Message Trust Verification

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Solution Overview

Problem

Telecommunications networks face vulnerabilities that allow nefarious actors to exploit weaknesses, leading to fraudulent and deceitful acts, and existing solutions are inadequate in ensuring trustworthy communications between devices and infrastructure.

Innovation Solution

Implementing blockchain technology by provisioning devices and systems as nodes within a blockchain network, enabling them to self-regulate and verify the trustworthiness of communications through distributed ledger technology, thereby authenticating and validating transactions and messages within the network.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If blockchain technology is implemented to verify trustworthiness of communications, then reliability and security of communications are improved, but device complexity and network overhead increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvereliability of communicationsVSAvoidcomplexity of blockchain nodes

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the blockchain verification function into separate modules: a lightweight client component installed on vehicles for basic verification, and a centralized server component for complex cryptographic operations. This segmentation allows vehicles to maintain simplicity while still benefiting from blockchain's reliability enhancements through distributed verification architecture.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

A centralized server acts as an intermediary between vehicles and the blockchain network. The server handles complex cryptographic verification operations and communicates verified status information to vehicles, reducing the computational burden on individual vehicle nodes while maintaining the security and reliability benefits of blockchain verification.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If blockchain verification is performed for all messages, then trustworthiness and security are improved, but processing time and network latency increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetrustworthiness of messagesVSAvoidprocessing time for message verification

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs partial verification by having vehicles maintain local copies of critical blockchain data (such as vehicle registration information and trust histories) rather than verifying every message against the entire blockchain. This partial action approach maintains trustworthiness for essential communications while significantly reducing processing time and network latency.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-loading verified vehicle information and trust data into local caches on vehicles before communications occur. This allows vehicles to make rapid trust determinations using pre-verified data without requiring real-time blockchain verification for every message, thereby reducing processing time while maintaining reliability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11968607B2Using a blockchain to determine trustworthiness of messages between vehicles over a telecommunications network

Publication Date: 2024.04.23 T MOBILE US INC

AI summary

Systems and methods are described herein for configuring vehicles and infrastructure (e.g., buildings, smart homes, traffic devices, utilities and associated systems, emergency response systems, and so on) to include blockchain nodes, so a smart city or area of the various devices can be supported by a blockchain network, with some or all devices and systems provisioned with nodes acting as distributed nodes for the blockchain network.