CrowdR-FBC: A Distributed Fog-Blockchains for Mobile Crowdsourcing Reputation Management

【Author】 Yu, Yao; Liu, Shumei; Guo, Lei; Yeoh, Phee Lep; Vucetic, Branka; Li, Yonghui

【Source】IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL

【影响因子】10.238

【Abstract】Mobile crowdsourcing is a promising strategy for trusted data collection in Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. In this article, we propose a new fog-blockchain distributed approach for crowdsourcing reputation management to prevent user's privacy leakage, malicious users' participation, and reputation tampering in wireless IoT systems. To protect the user's privacy, we design a cross-layer privacy protection model to separate the user's identity and tasks flexibly by means of a hierarchical structure based on fog computing. Moreover, considering the multiconstraint requirement of crowdsourcing tasks, we present a multifactor reputation evaluation method to accurately identify malicious users. Furthermore, to solve the multi-identity problem of users on multiple fog nodes, we propose an adaptive fog-blockchain reputation storage method, which efficiently reduces the system resource consumption by analyzing the adaptive classification of fog nodes. Exhaustive experimental simulation results validate the security and efficiency of our proposed reputation management system.

【Keywords】Crowdsourcing; Task analysis; Edge computing; Peer-to-peer computing; Internet of Things; Blockchain; crowdsourcing; fog computing; private protection; reputation evaluation

【发表时间】2020 SEPT

【收录时间】2022-01-02

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