Edinburgh Napier University

  Aiming at the problems of the communication inefficiency and high energy consumption in vehicular networks, the platoon service recommendation systems (PSRS) are presented. Many schemes for evaluating the reputation of platoon head vehicles have been proposed to obtain and recommend reliable platoon head vehicles. However, these trustworthiness evaluation protocols for PSRS fail to achieve both reliability and fairness. In this paper, we first provide a reliable trustworthiness evaluation method to ensure that the reputation level of platoon head vehicle can be calculated by cloud service provider (CSP) with the help of key agreement mechanism and truth discovery technology. Besides, the semi-trusted entity CSP may maliciously tamper with the reputation level of the platoon head vehicle. Thus, we also provide a reputation level confirmation method to ensure the fairness of trustworthiness evaluation. Formal security proof and security analysis are provided to show that our trustworthiness evaluation protocol can achieve the goals of privacy protection, reliability, fairness and resistance to several security attacks. Experiments demonstrate that this protocol can save execution time and achieve reliable and fair trustworthiness evaluation for PSRS.