SecDR : Enabling Secure, Efficient, and Accurate Data Recovery for Mobile Crowdsensing

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Author(s)

  • Menglun Zhou
  • Songlei Wang
  • Hejiao Huang
  • Xun Yi

Detail(s)

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)789-803
Number of pages15
Journal / PublicationIEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
Volume21
Issue number2
Online published28 Mar 2023
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2024

Abstract

Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) has rapidly emerged as a popular paradigm for sensory data collection and benefited various location-based services and applications like road monitoring, smart transportation, and environmental monitoring. In practice, there often exist data-missing regions in the target sensing area, due to factors like limited budget, large area size, and scarcity of participants. This poses a demand for data recovery, which is commonly done based on the compressive sensing (CS) technique. However, CS-based data recovery requires access to sensory data tagged with locations, raising critical concerns on participants' location privacy. While a plethora of location privacy techniques exist, most of them breach the data correlation inherently required by CS-based data recovery. Meanwhile, existing works mostly focus on protecting locations and overlook sensory data which may also indirectly lead to location leakages. In this paper, we propose SecDR, a new system design supporting secure, efficient, and accurate data recovery for location-based MCS applications. SecDR protects both locations and sensory data, and is built from a delicate synergy of CS-based data recovery and lightweight cryptography techniques. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that SecDR achieves promising performance and, even with stronger security guarantees, outperforms the state-of-the-art, with accuracy close to the plaintext domain. © 2023 IEEE.

Research Area(s)

  • Computer science, Crowdsensing, Cryptography, Data privacy, data recovery services, data sparsity, Indexes, location obfuscation, mobile crowdsensing, Receivers, Urban areas