A Lightweight Privacy Preservation Scheme With Efficient Reputation Management for Mobile Crowdsensing in Vehicular Networks

Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) refers to a group of mobile users utilizing their sensing devices to accomplish the same sensing task. However, in vehicular networks, how to evaluate the reliability of sensing vehicles and achieve lightweight privacy preservation are urgent issues. Therefore, this article proposes a lightweight privacy preservation scheme with efficient reputation management (PPRM) for MCS in vehicular networks. Specifically, we design a lightweight privacy-preserving sensing task matching algorithm which can preserve location privacy, identity privacy, sensing data privacy, and reputation value privacy while reducing computation and communication overheads of sensing vehicles. In particular, to prevent reputation values from being forged and select reliable sensing vehicles, we present a privacy-preserving reputation value equality verification algorithm to verify reputation values and a privacy-preserving reputation value range proof algorithm to select reliable sensing vehicles. Afterwards, a three-factor reputation value update algorithm is constructed to efficiently and accurately update the reputation values for sensing vehicles. Simulations are conducted to demonstrate the performance of the PPRM scheme, and the results show that the PPRM scheme significantly outperforms the existing schemes in security and robustness aspects.