Abstract
Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) presents numerous and unique research challenges most of them based on the fact that human participation is in the loop. In this paper we analyse three of the most important: user participation, data sensing quality and user anonymity. To solve them, we present PaySense, a general framework for user rewarding and reputation accountability that preserves users’ privacy using cryptocurrencies. Furthermore, we detailed an implementable system using bitcoins.
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Notes
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The interested reader can refer to [20] for detailed information on the bitcoin system.
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Note that the concept of certified address does not exist in the bitcoin system, but a characteristic of PaySense as described in Sect. 4.2.
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Although bitcoin addresses do not expire, we apply the concept of expiration to the certificate issued by the ACA. When an address “expires” it cannot be used in the MCS system but it is still a valid and usable bitcoin standard address.
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The binding factor depends on the selected digital signature. Although it has been represented as a function for clarity, the blinding factor is a specific an unrelated value for each different CSR to blind.
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In a simplest bitcoin transaction, the inputs block and the outputs bock contain exactly one single address.
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This work is partially supported by the spanish ministry under grant number TIN2014-55243-P and the Catalan AGAUR grant 2014SGR-691.
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Tanas, C., Delgado-Segura, S., Herrera-Joancomartí, J. (2016). An Integrated Reward and Reputation Mechanism for MCS Preserving Users’ Privacy. In: Garcia-Alfaro, J., Navarro-Arribas, G., Aldini, A., Martinelli, F., Suri, N. (eds) Data Privacy Management, and Security Assurance. DPM QASA 2015 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9481. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29883-2_6
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