MPoR: A Modified Consensus for Blockchain-Based Internet of Vehicles

Algorithm 1

Stochastic filtering.

Input: List of vehicles , Percentage parameter

Output: List of vehicles after stochastic filtering

1: Calculate average timestamp from Equation (2)

2: Calculate target hash from Equation (3)

3: fordo

4: Calculate hash of :

5: Calculate absolute difference value between

  Targethash and HashV_i

6: Add in list

7: end for

8: Sort L_abs in ascending order

9: fordo

10: Add into

11: end for

12: Broadcast chosen result

13: return List