Privacy-preserving crowd-sensed trust aggregation in the user-centeric Internet of people networks
ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, 2020•dl.acm.org
Today we are relying on Internet technologies for numerous services, for example, personal
communication, online businesses, recruitment, and entertainment. Over these networks,
people usually create content, a skillful worker profile, and provide services that are normally
watched and used by other users, thus developing a social network among people termed
as the Internet of People. Malicious users could also utilize such platforms for spreading
unwanted content that could bring catastrophic consequences to a social network provider …
communication, online businesses, recruitment, and entertainment. Over these networks,
people usually create content, a skillful worker profile, and provide services that are normally
watched and used by other users, thus developing a social network among people termed
as the Internet of People. Malicious users could also utilize such platforms for spreading
unwanted content that could bring catastrophic consequences to a social network provider …
Today we are relying on Internet technologies for numerous services, for example, personal communication, online businesses, recruitment, and entertainment. Over these networks, people usually create content, a skillful worker profile, and provide services that are normally watched and used by other users, thus developing a social network among people termed as the Internet of People. Malicious users could also utilize such platforms for spreading unwanted content that could bring catastrophic consequences to a social network provider and the society, if not identified on time. The use of trust management over these networks plays a vital role in the success of these services. Crowd-sensing people or network users for their views about certain content or content creators could be a potential solution to assess the trustworthiness of content creators and their content. However, the human involvement in crowd-sensing would have challenges of privacy preservation and preventing intentional assignment of the fake high score given to certain user/content. To address these challenges, in this article, we propose a novel trust model that evaluates the aggregate trustworthiness of the content creator and the content without compromising the privacy of the participating people in a crowdsource group. The proposed system has inherent properties of privacy protection of participants, performs operations in the decentralized setup, and considers the trust weights of participants in a private and secure way. The system ensures privacy of participants under the malicious and honest-but-curious adversarial models. We evaluated the performance of the system by developing a prototype and applying it to different real data from different online social networks.
ACM Digital Library
Showing the best result for this search. See all results