Personalized Privacy Protection Incentive Mechanism for Mobile Crowdsourcing Based on Homomorphic Encryption and Edge Computing

With the rapid development of crowd sensing computing, Mobile crowdsourcing (MCS) has become an indispensable part of today’s society. While MCS brings convenience to people, it also exposes them to the risk of privacy leakage. In addition, the demand for data is increasing, and the personalized privacy requirements of crowd workers may affect the service quality. In order to address these problems, this paper proposes a personalized privacy protection incentive mechanism (PPPIM) for MCS based on homomorphic encryption and edge computing. Firstly, this paper designs a personalized privacy metric, using social attributes and private attributes of crowd workers to calculate the privacy level required by crowd workers. Then, based on homomorphic encryption and edge computing, a personalized residual federated security learning scheme (PRFSL) is proposed to ensure the security, timeliness, integrity of task data and the privacy of crowd workers’ needs to improve encryption efficiency. Finally, based on the evolutionary game, a personalized privacy incentive mechanism is proposed to improve the overall service utility. Experimental comparisons based on real datasets show that the proposed scheme can not only ensure the security, timeliness, and integrity of task data more effectively. It can also effectively reduce data processing time, improve the probability of crowd workers actively completing tasks and the overall service quality utility.