2019/02/28 by Gowri Ramachandran, Xiang Ji, Ramachandran, Gowri Sankar +9
Computer Science · Engineering · #Age of Information Optimization #Distributed #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) #Parallel #Transportation and Mobility Innovations #Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) #and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1904.01630
openalex publication_date 2019/02/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Increasingly, connected cars are becoming a decentralized data platform. With greater autonomy, they have growing needs for computation and perceiving the world around them through sensors. While todays generation of vehicles carry all the necessary sensor data and computation on board, we envision a future where vehicles can cooperate to increase their perception of the world beyond their immediate view, resulting in greater safety, coordination and more comfortable experience for their human occupants. In order for vehicles to obtain data, compute and other services from other vehicles or road side infrastructure, it is important to be able to make micro payments for those services and for the services to run seamlessly despite the challenges posed by mobility and ephemeral interactions with a dynamic set of neighboring devices. We present MOTIVE, a trusted and decentralized framework that allows vehicles to make peer to peer micropayments for data, compute and other services obtained from other vehicles or road side infrastructure within radio range. The framework utilizes distributed ledger technologies including smart contracts to enable autonomous operation and trusted interactions between vehicles and nearby entities.