Secure and privacy-preserving crowdsensing using smart contracts: Issues and solutions

Alfredo J. Perez, Sherali Zeadally

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Abstract

The advent of Blockchain and smart contracts is empowering many technologies and systems to automate commerce and facilitate the exchange, tracking and the provision of goods, data and services in a reliable and auditable way. Crowdsensing systems is one type of systems that have been receiving a lot of attention in the past few years. In crowdsensing systems consumer devices such as mobile phones and Internet of Things devices are used to deploy wide-scale sensor networks. We identify some of the major security and privacy issues associated with the development of crowdsensing systems based on smart contracts and Blockchain. We also explore possible solutions that can address major security concerns with these systems.

Original languageEnglish
Article number100450
JournalComputer Science Review
Volume43
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2022

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This research was supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under grant award no. 1950416 .

Publisher Copyright:
© 2021

Keywords

  • Blockchain
  • Crowdsensing
  • Internet of Things (IoT)
  • Privacy
  • Security
  • Smart contracts

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science (all)

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