IOTA Feasibility and Perspectives for Enabling Vehicular Applications
This work addresses security challenges in vehicular applications, but it appears incremental as it focuses on evaluating an existing technology rather than introducing a new solution.
The paper investigates the use of the Tangle, a distributed ledger technology, to enhance security for in-vehicle and off-vehicle functions in vehicular applications, evaluating key performance parameters and discussing their limitations and potential impact.
The emergence of distributed ledger technologies in the vehicular applications' arena is decisively contributing to their improvement and shaping of the public opinion about their future. The Tangle is a technology at its infancy, but showing enormous potential to become a key solution by addressing several of the blockchain's limitations. This paper focuses the use of the Tangle to improve the security of both in-vehicle and off-vehicle functions in vehicular applications. To this end, key operational performance parameters are identified, evaluated and discussed with emphasis on their limitations and potential impact in future vehicular applications.