Blockchain-Based Method for Pre-Authentication and Handover Authentication of IoV Vehicles

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Authors have to revise the manuscript by considering the following comments.

1.       Enhance introduction work by including Brief discussion about the topic,  Problem of the topic,  Existing solutions of the topic along with the problems of the existing  schemes/solutions,  Brief details about the proposed scheme, and Contributions (point-wise)  Structure of the paper.

2.       Section 2 heading is vehicle authentication requirements. But it seems like a literature survey or related work. Clarify it.

3.       Missed the requirements of the vehicle authentication system. Specify the requirements with the used specifications.

4.       Statements are Ex. Line no.73, “the communication link of the vehicle must be changed from the current RSU to the other RSU to ensure network connection”

5.       On what base has a vehicle is chosen one new RSU from the collection of RSUs in the process of handover?

6.       Add a summary of the literature survey by including their limitations.

7.       What is the consensus  by the RSUs mentioned in line 194.

8.       In section 4.2, Eq (1) description should add to the manuscript.

9.       IN line 256, which Blockchain consensus was used here? A number of blockchain consensus have existed.

10.   Line 305 and 306 needs to revise. It seems that the format of the content was not incorrect.

11.   Suggested considering the following related works

a.       https://doi.org/10.1049/cmu2.12439

b.       https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2022.02.050

 

c.        doi: 10.1109/ICIMIA48430.2020.9074940.

 

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Reviewer 2 Report

Reviewer Comments Electronics (MDPI)

Block chain-based Method for Pre-authentication and Handover Authentication of IoV Vehicles

This review article addresses a vehicle pre-authentication and handover authentication method based on blockchain. The manuscript needs improvisation in writing.

 Here are some comments

§  In the abstract, there is no numerical result analysis of the proposed method. The author claimed the proposed method reduces the consensus time. There is no numerical analysis in the writing.

§  The Introduction section looks incomplete. It looks like a random discussion about the proposed method. The author did not clarify the organizing the section number of the manuscript.

§  Author did not point out the novelty of the proposed method specifically. I cannot distinguish between the proposed approach and the prior research.

§  Author should clarify the difference between the previous research and the newly proposed method.

§  While describing the results author has not justified the results with a numerical point.

§  After table 1, there is the repetition of the word as shown.

 Overall the manuscript needs specific writing from the perspective of the novelty of the proposed method and re-organize the writing part.

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Accept in present form

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Reviewer 2 Report

1. The author should describe figure 5 in the text.

2. Try to improve the figures quality resolution and text should be visible.

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