FIRST: A Framework for Optimizing Information Quality in Mobile Crowdsensing Systems
Abstract
Thanks to the collective action of participating smartphone users, mobile crowdsensing allows data collection at a scale and pace that was once impossible. The biggest challenge to overcome in mobile crowdsensing is that participants may exhibit malicious or unreliable behavior, thus compromising the accuracy of the data collection process. Therefore, it becomes imperative to design algorithms to accurately classify between reliable and unreliable sensing reports. To address this crucial issue, we propose a novel Framework for optimizing Information Reliability in Smartphone-based participaTory sensing (FIRST) that leverages mobile trusted participants (MTPs) to securely assess the reliability of sensing reports. FIRST models and solves the challenging problem of determining before deployment the minimum number of MTPs to be used to achieve desired classification accuracy. After a rigorous mathematical study of its performance, we extensively evaluate FIRST through an implementation in iOS and Android of a room occupancy monitoring system and through simulations with real-world mobility traces. Experimental results demonstrate that FIRST reduces significantly the impact of three security attacks (i.e., corruption, on/off, and collusion) by achieving a classification accuracy of almost 80% in the considered scenarios. Finally, we discuss our ongoing research efforts to test the performance of FIRST as part of the National Map Corps project.
Recommended Citation
F. Restuccia et al., "FIRST: A Framework for Optimizing Information Quality in Mobile Crowdsensing Systems," ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, vol. 15, no. 1, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Feb 2019.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1145/3267105
Department(s)
Computer Science
Research Center/Lab(s)
Intelligent Systems Center
Second Research Center/Lab
Center for High Performance Computing Research
Keywords and Phrases
Image quality; Mobile security; Smartphones; Crowd sensing; Framework; Information; Mobile; Reputation; Trust; Data acquisition; Crowdsensing; Quality
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
1550-4859; 1550-4867
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2019 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
01 Feb 2019
Comments
This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant no. CNS-1545037, CNS-1545050, and DGE-1433659. The information reported in this manuscript does not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of the United States federal government.