Reputation and Reward: Two Sides of the Same Bitcoin
In Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS), the power of the crowd, jointly with the sensing capabilities of the smartphones they wear, provides a new paradigm for data sensing. Scenarios involving user behavior or those that rely on user mobility are examples where standard sensor networks may not be suitable,...
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| author | Sergi Delgado-Segura Cristian Tanas Jordi Herrera-Joancomartí |
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| description | In Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS), the power of the crowd, jointly with the sensing capabilities of the smartphones they wear, provides a new paradigm for data sensing. Scenarios involving user behavior or those that rely on user mobility are examples where standard sensor networks may not be suitable, and MCS provides an interesting solution. However, including human participation in sensing tasks presents numerous and unique research challenges. In this paper, we analyze three of the most important: user participation, data sensing quality and user anonymity. We tackle the three as a whole, since all of them are strongly correlated. As a result, we present PaySense, a general framework that incentivizes user participation and provides a mechanism to validate the quality of collected data based on the users’ reputation. All such features are performed in a privacy-preserving way by using the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. Rather than a theoretical one, our framework has been implemented, and it is ready to be deployed and complement any existing MCS system. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7443bd8e0d014ca9b5919f4a33b0c72f2022-12-22T04:03:48ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202016-05-0116677610.3390/s16060776s16060776Reputation and Reward: Two Sides of the Same BitcoinSergi Delgado-Segura0Cristian Tanas1Jordi Herrera-Joancomartí2Departament d’Enginyeria de la Informació i les Comunicacions, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona 08193, SpainDepartament d’Enginyeria de la Informació i les Comunicacions, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona 08193, SpainDepartament d’Enginyeria de la Informació i les Comunicacions, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona 08193, SpainIn Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS), the power of the crowd, jointly with the sensing capabilities of the smartphones they wear, provides a new paradigm for data sensing. Scenarios involving user behavior or those that rely on user mobility are examples where standard sensor networks may not be suitable, and MCS provides an interesting solution. However, including human participation in sensing tasks presents numerous and unique research challenges. In this paper, we analyze three of the most important: user participation, data sensing quality and user anonymity. We tackle the three as a whole, since all of them are strongly correlated. As a result, we present PaySense, a general framework that incentivizes user participation and provides a mechanism to validate the quality of collected data based on the users’ reputation. All such features are performed in a privacy-preserving way by using the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. Rather than a theoretical one, our framework has been implemented, and it is ready to be deployed and complement any existing MCS system.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/16/6/776mobile crowd sensingcryptocurrenciesreputation systemsprivacybitcoin |
| spellingShingle | Sergi Delgado-Segura Cristian Tanas Jordi Herrera-Joancomartí Reputation and Reward: Two Sides of the Same Bitcoin Sensors mobile crowd sensing cryptocurrencies reputation systems privacy bitcoin |
| title | Reputation and Reward: Two Sides of the Same Bitcoin |
| title_full | Reputation and Reward: Two Sides of the Same Bitcoin |
| title_fullStr | Reputation and Reward: Two Sides of the Same Bitcoin |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reputation and Reward: Two Sides of the Same Bitcoin |
| title_short | Reputation and Reward: Two Sides of the Same Bitcoin |
| title_sort | reputation and reward two sides of the same bitcoin |
| topic | mobile crowd sensing cryptocurrencies reputation systems privacy bitcoin |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/16/6/776 |
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