A Tensor-Based Truthful Incentive Mechanism for Blockchain-Enabled Space-Air-Ground Integrated Vehicular Crowdsensing

Abstract

Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network (SAGIN) as an efficient newly integration network could provide more comprehensive network services to meet the multifarious quality of service requirements in different Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). By taking advantage of SAGIN, Space-Air-Ground Integrated Vehicular Crowdsensing (SAGI-VCS) would have great potential and the services regarding ITS could be facilitated. However, centralized SAGI-VCS is usually vulnerable to malicious attacks and the trust issues are one of the main reasons that hinder its further development. Blockchain as a distributed hyperledger shows a vital potential to solve the trust problem of multiple participants who do not trust each other and tackle the security issues in SAGI-VCS. Additionally, selfishness is another factor that prevents vehicles from participating in SAGI-VCS. The vast majority of existing incentives for vehicular crowdsensing only focus on the terrestrial networks which cannot be directly used in SAGI-VCS. Meanwhile, the redundant winner phenomenon and the multi-attributes of participants are less considered by them. Toward this end, we first illustrate a blockchain-enabled service architecture for SAGI-VCS and then construct a unified representation model. Afterwards, a tensor computing based truthful incentive mechanism TensorBC for blockchain-enabled SAGI-VCS is proposed to motivate vehicles to participate in completing tasks, ensure the security of the whole process and maximize the social welfare. TensorBC not only can eliminate the redundant winner phenomenon, but also can guarantee the economic properties such as truthfulness, individual rationality and profitability. Finally, both the rigorous theoretical analysis and extensive experimental results show that TensorBC could achieve a better performance.