Research Article

Privacy-Preserving Incentive Mechanism for Mobile Crowdsensing

Table 1

Summary of notations.

NotationsDescription

A sensing task
TPA task publisher
A server
A user who performs a sensing task
A set of users
Number of users in the set
The weight of the user
Ground truth of the sensing object
Sensing data collected by the user
Time for to collect sensing data
The longitude for to collect sensing data
The latitude for to collect sensing data
The data submitted by the user which is denoted by
Eligibility rank for is denoted by
Budget constraint of a sensing task
Key pair of public-key encryption
(IND-CPA) Public-key encryption function , where is a plaintext
Public-key decryption function , where is a ciphertext
Symmetric encryption function , where is the key
Symmetric encryption function
A reward control parameter
The data quality of the user , and
Mean of data quality, and
Monetary reward of the user , and
The cost of the user performing a sensing task
Utility of the user