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Trust as a Field: A Macroscopic Representation for Vehicular Networks
arXiv:2608.18178v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Trust assessment is a fundamental component of cooperative and connected vehicle systems. However, existing approaches operate primarily at the level of
arXiv:2608.18178v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Trust assessment is a fundamental component of cooperative and connected vehicle systems. However, existing approaches operate primarily at the level of individual vehicles, making it difficult to reason about trust evolution across road segments. In this paper, we propose a spatio-temporal trust-field framework that aggregates microscopic vehicle-level trust into a continuous representation over space and time. The trust field is formally defined on road segments. We conducted simulation-based experiments using synthetic trajectories generated under controlled conditions, enabling analysis of trust-field behavior in simple road scenarios. Beyond theoretical modeling, we study an implication of the trust-field concept: reconstructing the full trust field from sparse roadside-unit (RSU) measurements. We compare (i) a coordinate-based deep learning baseline that learns a generic trust field from sparse samples and (ii) a field-informed deep learning method that treats trust as a latent quantity carried by vehicles and enforces measurement consistency through the aggregation mechanism. The field-informed approach more accurately recovers trajectory-aligned low-trust patterns and yields improved reconstruction error.
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Source: arXiv cs.RO | 2026-08-20