Abstract
Recently, truth discovery in crowdsensing systems has received considerable attention with its appealing features for extracting truthful information from multiple unreliable data sources. However, it also poses new challenges to the issues of privacy and security. On the one hand, workers’ sensed data can be used to infer their privacy. On the other hand, workers may be selfish and lazy, especially in the Internet-of-Things environment, devices are usually resource constrained, so they may dishonestly execute the costly sensing task so as to reduce resource consumption, or even break the protocol to obtain illegal rewards. Although some privacy-preserving truth discovery schemes have been proposed, they still cannot achieve strong privacy protection while keeping efficiency on the worker side, and still has no efficient incentive mechanism to persuade workers to participate in the system operations. In this article, we propose an incentive-based privacy-preserving truth discovery framework, named InPPTD. By adopting the Paillier homomorphic cryptosystem and two noncolluding servers, InPPTD not only effectively protects workers’ sensed data information but also preserves the privacy of these workers’ weight information. Meanwhile, a weight-based incentive mechanism is introduced in InPPTD to reduce the number of lazy workers. Security and performance analysis shows that InPPTD can guarantee stronger security features, while also ensure efficiency in terms of computation and communication overhead.
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