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Lightweight Privacy-Preserving and Fault-Tolerant Truth Discovery for Mobile Crowdsensing Systems
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As a paradigm for encouraging users to contribute data spontaneously, mobile crowdsensing (MCS) has received considerable attention recently. It is crucial to evaluate the truthfulness of MCS data using proper truth discovery mechanisms. Although recent truth discovery schemes can determine truthful information, they either provide limited privacy preservation or have heavy computation and communication overheads. Moreover, most of them are not resilient to active attacks including forgery attack and tampering attack. To tackle the above problems, we propose two fault-tolerant and privacy-preserving truth discovery solutions. Our first scheme is mainly used for scenarios with a relatively stable number of users, where no new participants can join the tasks. Integrating ring signature with the perturbation technique, we design an anonymous and privacy-preserving truth discovery scheme, namely RsAnonTD, which can achieve privacy preservation and resist active attacks. To address the challenge with dynamically changing workers, we devise a multi-client inner product functional encryption scheme with a lightweight zero-knowledge proof protocol (namely McFeKDeTD) for defending against active attacks. The security analysis shows that both schemes can preserve the privacy of sensory data, weights, and estimated truths while resisting active attacks, thereby guaranteeing fault tolerance. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our designs achieve superior performance than other schemes in terms of accuracy, convergence speed, and system overheads. For example, compared with the state-of-the-art approach RPTD-II, which has a security level comparable to ours, our proposed schemes, RsAnonTD and McFeKDeTD, reduce the computational overheads by approximately 98% and 69%, respectively.
Keywords:
Mobile crowd sensing
truth discovery
fault tolerance
privacy preservation
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