Task Priority Aware Incentive Mechanism with Reward Privacy-Preservation in Mobile Crowdsensing
Jiahu Wang, Peng Li, Weiyi Huang, Zeqiang Chen, Lei Nie · 2022 IEEE 25th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD) · 2022
In mobile crowdsensing, there are generally two types of tasks, popular tasks, and unpopular tasks. For popular tasks, many people can perform that task, and the budget is overallocated. For unpopular tasks, fewer or no one is willing to complete them. How to motivate users to complete different popularity tasks during their work time is a challenging problem. In this paper, we design a task priority-aware incentive mechanism to solve this problem. First, we use hierarchical clustering to classify tasks into different priorities by considering their budgets, deadlines, and density distribution. The higher the task priority, the higher the extra rewards and credits the participating users get. To motivate more users to perform unpopular tasks, we give high priority to unpopular tasks. Then, we propose a greedy algorithm that allows more users to do high-priority tasks. However, too many budget adjustments can cause most users to do unpopular tasks as users are obsessed with their income. To prevent users from all selecting high-priority tasks, we further propose a differential privacy-based algorithm to protect task priority and reduce users’ attention to their income. This algorithm protects users’ income and allows users to focus more on task characteristics, such as task distribution and task deadline. Through many experiments in the reality Roma dataset, we evaluate two proposed algorithms compared with other solutions.