TY - JOUR
T1 - BlockEV
T2 - Efficient and Secure Charging Station Selection for Electric Vehicles
AU - Danish, Syed Muhammad
AU - Zhang, Kaiwen
AU - Jacobsen, Hans Arno
AU - Ashraf, Nouman
AU - Qureshi, Hassaan Khaliq
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received January 30, 2020; revised April 18, 2020, July 1, 2020, and September 30, 2020; accepted November 23, 2020. Date of publication December 29, 2020; date of current version July 12, 2021. This work was supported in part by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and in part by Bitfarms Company under Grant CRDPJ 533995-18. The Associate Editor for this article was S. Mumtaz. (Corresponding author: Syed Muhammad Danish.) Syed Muhammad Danish and Kaiwen Zhang are with the FUSÉE Laboratory, École de technologie supérieure, Montreal, QC H3C 1K3, Canada (e-mail: syed-muhammad.danish.1@ens.etsmtl.ca; kaiwen.zhang@etsmtl.ca).
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PY - 2021/7
Y1 - 2021/7
N2 - The Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) has become essential for the economical and technological development of a country. The maturity of communication technologies (Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) and Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V)) and the amalgamation of smart grids, electric vehicles (EVs) and energy trading resulted in a storm of research opportunities for green ITS. In addition, the combination of vehicular communication technologies and ITS enable efficient selection of EV charging stations (CS) and scheduling EVs charging requirements in real-time. However, the untrusted centralized nature of energy markets and EV charging infrastructures result in several privacy and security threats to EV user's private information. These security and privacy threats include targeted advertisements, privacy leakage, selling data to third party, etc. In this work, we propose BlockEV, a blockchain-based efficient CS selection protocol for EVs to ensure the security and privacy of the EV users, availability of the reserved time slots at CSs, high Quality of Service (QoS) and enhanced EV user comfort. First, a blockchain-based framework is introduced to implement secure charging services and trusted reservation for EVs with the execution of smart contract. Second, we focus on the efficient CS selection and propose a mechanism for EVs to select the CS locally without sharing private information to CS, while fulfilling their service requirements. Evaluations show that the proposed BlockEV is scalable with significantly low blockchain transaction and storage overhead.
AB - The Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) has become essential for the economical and technological development of a country. The maturity of communication technologies (Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) and Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V)) and the amalgamation of smart grids, electric vehicles (EVs) and energy trading resulted in a storm of research opportunities for green ITS. In addition, the combination of vehicular communication technologies and ITS enable efficient selection of EV charging stations (CS) and scheduling EVs charging requirements in real-time. However, the untrusted centralized nature of energy markets and EV charging infrastructures result in several privacy and security threats to EV user's private information. These security and privacy threats include targeted advertisements, privacy leakage, selling data to third party, etc. In this work, we propose BlockEV, a blockchain-based efficient CS selection protocol for EVs to ensure the security and privacy of the EV users, availability of the reserved time slots at CSs, high Quality of Service (QoS) and enhanced EV user comfort. First, a blockchain-based framework is introduced to implement secure charging services and trusted reservation for EVs with the execution of smart contract. Second, we focus on the efficient CS selection and propose a mechanism for EVs to select the CS locally without sharing private information to CS, while fulfilling their service requirements. Evaluations show that the proposed BlockEV is scalable with significantly low blockchain transaction and storage overhead.
KW - blockchain
KW - charging station
KW - Electric vehicles
KW - security and privacy
KW - smart city
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85099094993&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/TITS.2020.3044890
DO - 10.1109/TITS.2020.3044890
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85099094993
VL - 22
SP - 4194
EP - 4211
JO - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
JF - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
SN - 1524-9050
IS - 7
M1 - 9310692
ER -