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

Alfredo J. Perez; Sherali Zeadally

doi:10.1016/j.cosrev.2021.100450

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

Alfredo J. Perez
, Sherali Zeadally

School of Information Science

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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 language	English
Article number	100450
Journal	Computer Science Review
Volume	43
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosrev.2021.100450
State	Published - Feb 2022

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We thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments which helped us improve the content, quality, and presentation of this paper. This research was supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under grant award no. 1950416.

Funders	Funder number
National Science Foundation Arctic Social Science Program	1950416

Keywords

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

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Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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