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Access Control in Mobile Crowdsensing: Requirements, Challenges and Open Issues

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Intelligent Computing (SAI 2023)

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Many industries, including smart cities, healthcare, and others, have undergone radical change due to the fast-growing number of smart devices and associated sensors. Mobile CrowdSensing (MCS) is currently attracting increasing interest since smartphones now have numerous sensing, computation, and networking capabilities that enable them to carry out complex tasks and exchange data, which enhances the delivery of a variety of services. Even if MCS offers a promising paradigm, providing personalized information often comes at the cost of accessing users’ private information without their consent or with the risk of maliciously manipulating the collected data by unauthorized entities. Therefore, access control has to be enforced in MCS-based applications, as it represents a fundamental security mechanism that can efficiently manage resource access activities by allowing only authorized users to have access to the needed information resources. In the literature, several access control models are available, each with different characteristics that make them more or less suitable for the MCS context. In this paper, we highlight the main concepts and major limitations of the most used access control models through recent work from the MCS literature. Then, we deduce the key requirements of access control in the context of mobile crowdsensing. Finally, we provide future directions for research on access control for MCS.

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Acknowledgments

This research received funding from the Moroccan Ministry of Equipment, Transport and Logistics (METL) and the National Road Safety Agency (NARSA), and was supported by the Moroccan National Center for Scientific and Technical Research (CNRST). The Author Hajar EL GADI received the Fulbright scholarship.

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  1. SSL, IT Rabat Center, ENSIAS, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Rabat, Morocco

    Hajar El Gadi, Hanan El Bakkali & Zaina Maqour

  2. IRDA, IT Rabat Center, ENSIAS, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Rabat, Morocco

    Houda Benbrahim & Wahiba Abou-zbiba

  3. Engineering Technology Department, University of Houston, Houston, TX, 77204, USA

    Driss Benhaddou

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El Gadi, H., El Bakkali, H., Benhaddou, D., Benbrahim, H., Abou-zbiba, W., Maqour, Z. (2023). Access Control in Mobile Crowdsensing: Requirements, Challenges and Open Issues. In: Arai, K. (eds) Intelligent Computing. SAI 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 739. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37963-5_29

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