In this paper, we design a blockchain-based incentive mechanism for the problem of low-level participation of primary users caused by location privacy leakage during spectrum data sharing in the Internet of Vehicles (IoV). First, we propose a
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-anonymous location protection scheme for multiuser cooperation, which can protect the location privacy of primary users by generalizing their location information through the construction of anonymous areas. Then, we design an incentive mechanism, which performs reporting and adjudication strategy through the transaction stored in blockchain. Simulation results indicate that the proposed scheme can effectively prevent the privacy leakage of primary users’ location and encourage them to actively participate in spectrum sharing in IoV.
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