Volume 8, Issue 5 e70092
SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLE

Privacy Preserving Efficient Worker Selection in the Cloud-Based Crowdsourcing Platform

Himanshu Suyal

Himanshu Suyal

Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Dr B. R. Ambedkar NIT Jalandhar, Jalandhar, Punjab, India

School of Computer Science Engineering & Technology, Bennett University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

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Avtar Singh

Avtar Singh

Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Dr B. R. Ambedkar NIT Jalandhar, Jalandhar, Punjab, India

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Gulshan Shrivastava

Corresponding Author

Gulshan Shrivastava

School of Computer Science Engineering & Technology, Bennett University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Correspondence: Gulshan Shrivastava ([email protected])

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First published: 23 July 2025

ABSTRACT

Crowdsourcing has become the most widely used tool to solve complex problems through the collective intelligence of distributed crowd workers, but ensuring both worker and task privacy remains a significant challenge. This research proposed a novel privacy-preserving framework, a lightweight dynamic worker selection method based on attribute-based selection that ensures the privacy of workers and tasks through pseudonymity and encryption. A two-phase encryption ensures the confidentiality and anonymity of workers and tasks against the crowd server. In addition, it incorporates efficient worker revocation to remove unreliable or spam workers without disturbing the overall schema. The detailed security analysis shows that our approach is to secure the task and worker identity with minimum complexity. An experimental study compares the proposed approach with the state-of-the-art approach, showing that it has a low computational cost and is feasible under resource-constrained environments.

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Data Availability Statement

Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study.

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