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MOTIVE: Micropayments for trusted vehicular services
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