IEICE Transactions on Communications
Online ISSN : 1745-1345
Print ISSN : 0916-8516
Special Section on Towards Management for Future Communications and Services in Conjunction with Main Topics of APNOMS2021
Budget Allocation for Incentivizing Mobile Users for Crowdsensing Platform
Cheng ZHANGNoriaki KAMIYAMA
Author information
JOURNAL RESTRICTED ACCESS

2022 Volume E105.B Issue 11 Pages 1342-1352

Details
Abstract

With the popularity of smart devices, mobile crowdsensing, in which the crowdsensing platform gathers useful data from users of smart devices, e.g., smartphones, has become a prevalent paradigm. Various incentive mechanisms have been extensively adopted for the crowdsensing platform to incentivize users of smart devices to offer sensing data. Existing works have concentrated on rewarding smart-device users for their short term effort to provide data without considering the long-term factors of smart-device users and the quality of data. Our previous work has considered the quality of data of smart-device users by incorporating the long-term reputation of smart-device users. However, our previous work only considered a quality maximization problem with budget constraints on one location. In this paper, multiple locations are considered. Stackelberg game is utilized to solve a two-stage optimization problem. In the first stage, the crowdsensing platform allocates the budget to different locations and sets price as incentives for users to maximize the total data quality. In the second stage, the users make efforts to provide data to maximize its utility. Extensive numerical simulations are conducted to evaluate proposed algorithm.

Content from these authors
© 2022 The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
Previous article Next article
feedback
Top