This book investigates perturbation-based privacy in crowdsensing systems. The authors first present an explicit overview of crowdsensing systems and privacy challenges and briefly discuss how the noise added by perturbation-based privacy-preserving techniques could inevitably degrade data quality and facilitate the success of data poisoning attacks on crowdsensing.

The authors then give a comprehensive review of classical privacy notions for perturbation-based privacy-preserving techniques and theoretically analyze the relations between these privacy notions. The next four chapters conduct a series of studies on privacy preservation in crowdsensing systems from three dimensions of data privacy, data utility and data poisoning. Finally, the book explores open issues and outlines future research directions for perturbation-based privacy preservation in crowdsensing systems.

Advanced-level students majoring in the areas of network security, computer science and electrical engineering will find this book useful as a secondary text. Professionals seeking privacy-preserving solutions for crowdsensing systems will also find this book useful as a reference.

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Dr. Zhirun Zheng received his B.S. in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Henan University of Science and Technology, China, in 2017, and received his Ph.D. degree in the School of Mathematics and Computational Science, Xiangtan University, China, in 2024. From December 2022 to December 2023, he visited the Broadband Communications Research (BBCR) Lab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada. Since October 2024, he is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Artificial Intelligence, Ajou University, South Korea. His research interests are in the areas of security and privacy in Crowdsensing systems, artificial intelligence, and mobile networks. Dr. Zheng serves as TPC members of many conferences, including GLOBECOM and WCSP.

Dr. Zhetao Li is a professor in the College of Information Science and Technology, Jinan University. He received the B.Eng. degree in electrical information engineering from Xiangtan University in 2002, the M.Eng. degree in pattern recognition and intelligent systems from Beihang University in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree in computer application technology from Hunan University in 2010. From Dec 2013 to Dec 2014, he was a postdoc in wireless networks at Stony Brook University. He is a member of IEEE and CCF.

Dr. Xuemin (Sherman) Shen received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, in 1990. He is a University Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada. His research focuses on network resource management, wireless network security, Internet of Things, 5G and beyond, and vehicular ad hoc and sensor networks. Dr. Shen is a registered Professional Engineer of Ontario, Canada, an Engineering Institute of Canada Fellow, a Canadian Academy of Engineering Fellow, a Royal Society of Canada Fellow, a Chinese Academy of Engineering Foreign Member, and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and Communications Society. Dr. Shen received the R.A. Fessenden Award in 2019 from IEEE, Canada, Award of Merit from the Federation of Chinese Canadian Professionals (Ontario) in 2019, James Evans Avant Garde Award in 2018 from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, Joseph LoCicero Award in 2015 and Education Award in 2017 from the IEEE Communications Society, and Technical Recognition Award from Wireless Communications Technical Committee (2019) and AHSN Technical Committee (2013). He has also received the Excellent Graduate Supervision Award in 2006 from the University of Waterloo and the Premier's Research Excellence Award (PREA) in 2003 from the Province of Ontario, Canada. He served as the Technical Program Committee Chair/Co-Chair for IEEE Globecom'16, IEEE Infocom'14, IEEE VTC'10 Fall, IEEE Globecom'07, and the Chair for the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Wireless Communications. Dr. Shen is the President Elect of the IEEE Communications Society. He was the Vice President for Technical & Educational Activities, Vice President for Publications, Member-at-Large on the Board of Governors, Chair of the Distinguished Lecturer Selection Committee, Member of IEEE Fellow Selection Committee of the ComSoc. Dr. Shen served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE IoT Journal, IEEE Network, and IET Communications.