Geo-Indistinguishablility for Crowdsourced-Based Radio Environment Map Construction

摘要

The aim of this paper is to preserve location privacy of crowdsourced-based spectrum sensing agents using geo-indistinguishability. We considered database-driven dynamic spectrum access, where a radio environment map provides spectrum availability information for dynamic spectrum access management. Moreover, we assumed crowdsourced-based spectrum sensing, where a pool of allocated mobile users, called crowdsourced-based spectrum sensing agents, sense the spectrum and report their actual location and the received signal strength to the spectrum manager that constructs a radio environment map. This discloses location information of crowdsourced-based spectrum sensing agents and violates their location privacy. Consequently, crowdsourced-based spectrum sensing agents could be discouraged to participate in spectrum sensing. In our paper, to solve the problem of location disclosure, we adopted planar Laplacian mechanism, where each crowdsourced-based spectrum sensing agent reports an obfuscated location instead of its actual location, which achieves geo-indistinguishability. Our simulation results were based on real-world CRAWDAD dataset. Our results showed that with a moderate privacy level, location privacy of crowdsourced-based spectrum sensing agents was preserved while the effect of introduced location noise on the accuracy of radio environment map was insignificant.