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wang2022privacy

Hengzhi Wang, En Wang, Yongjian Yang, Jie Wu and Falko Dressler, "Privacy-Preserving Online Task Assignment in Spatial Crowdsourcing: A Graph-based Approach," Proceedings of 41st IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2022), Virtual Conference, May 2022, pp. 570–579.

Abstract

Recently, the growing popularity of Spatial Crowd-sourcing (SC), allowing untrusted platforms to obtain a great quantity of information about workers and tasks' locations, has raised numerous privacy concerns. In this paper, we investigate the privacy-preserving task assignment in the online scenario, where workers and tasks arrive at the platform in real time and tasks should be assigned to workers immediately. Traditional online task assignments usually make a benchmark to decide the following task assignment. However, when location privacy is considered, the benchmark does not work anymore. Hence, how to assign tasks in real time based on workers and tasks' obfuscated locations is a challenging problem. Especially when many tasks could be assigned to one worker, path planning should be considered, making the assignment more challenging. To this end, we propose a Planar Laplace distribution based Privacy mechanism (PLP) to obfuscate real locations of workers and tasks, where the obfuscation does not change the ranking of these locations' relative distances. Furthermore, we design a Threshold-based Online task Assignment mechanism (TOA), which could deal with the one-worker-many-tasks assignment and achieve a satisfactory competitive ratio. Simulations based on two real-world datasets show that the proposed algorithm consistently outperforms the state-of-the-art approach.

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Hengzhi Wang
En Wang
Yongjian Yang
Jie Wu
Falko Dressler

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@inproceedings{wang2022privacy,
    author = {Wang, Hengzhi and Wang, En and Yang, Yongjian and Wu, Jie and Dressler, Falko},
    doi = {10.1109/INFOCOM48880.2022.9796827},
    title = {{Privacy-Preserving Online Task Assignment in Spatial Crowdsourcing: A Graph-based Approach}},
    pages = {570--579},
    publisher = {IEEE},
    address = {Virtual Conference},
    booktitle = {41st IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2022)},
    month = {5},
    year = {2022},
   }
   
   

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