Truthful incentive mechanism with location privacy-preserving for mobile crowdsourcing systems

With the rapid development of mobile devices, mobile crowdsourcing has become an important research focus. In order to improve the efficiency and truthfulness of mobile crowdsourcing systems, this paper proposes a truthful incentive mechanism with location privacy-preserving for mobile crowdsourcing systems. The improved two-stage auction algorithm based on trust degree and privacy sensibility (TATP) is proposed. In addition, the k−ɛ-differential privacy-preserving is proposed to prevent users’ location information from being leaked. Through comparison experiments, the effectiveness of the proposed incentive mechanism is verified. The proposed incentive mechanism with location privacy-preserving can inspire users to participate sensing tasks, and protect users’ location privacy effectively.