Smart Contract-Based Auditing of Edge Data for Vehicular Networks

With the development of vehicular networks and cloud-edge collaborative technologies, a large amount of vehicle data is collected at edge nodes (Edge Node, EN) for analysis and decision-making. However, edge data faces challenges in terms of integrity and security. Data owners (Data Owner, DO) should delegate auditors to periodically verify the integrity of the data. However, existing verification methods have not yet addressed issues related to verifiers forging evidence and fair payment. This paper proposes a smart contract-based edge data integrity verification scheme. An audit tree based on lattice hashing is designed, allowing the smart contract to initiate multiple verification challenges while only storing a complete label, thus reducing storage overhead. The homomorphic additivity of lattice hashing supports arbitrary data segmentation as challenges, effectively preventing EN from forging evidence. This scheme also designs two smart contract arbitration algorithms to ensure fair payment. Experimental comparisons show that this scheme effectively resolves the trust issues related to EN and ensures fair payment among EN, CSP, and DO.