Title
Promoting Cooperation by the Social Incentive Mechanism in Mobile Crowdsensing.
Abstract
An incentive mechanism is important for mobile crowdsensing to recruit sufficient participants to complete large-scale sensing tasks with high quality. Previous incentive mechanisms have focused on quantifying participants' contribution to the quality of sensing and provide incentives directly to them. In this article, we introduce a novel approach, called the social incentive mechanism, which, surprisingly, incentivizes the social friends of the participants who perform the sensing tasks. The basic idea is to leverage the social ties among participants to promote global cooperation. Since the incentive that a participant receives largely relies on the behaviors of his/her social friends, participants have the motivation to impact their friends' behaviors through their social relationships in order to gain a higher payoff. This approach is applicable to many scenarios where the contributions to the quality of sensing among participants are interdependent, such as data aggregation. We have provided a case study which shows that the social incentive mechanism is more cost-effective than traditional incentive mechanisms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/MCOM.2017.1600690CM
IEEE Communications Magazine
Keywords
Field
DocType
Sensors,Mobile communication,Crowdsourcing,Smart devices,Supply and demand,Data aggregation,Air quality
Interdependence,Internet privacy,Leverage (finance),Incentive,Computer security,Computer science,Crowdsourcing,Computer network,Data aggregator,Mobile telephony,Interpersonal ties,Stochastic game
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
55
3
0163-6804
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
28
0.76
11
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
guang yang17415.11
Shibo He2149478.37
Zhiguo Shi324626.13
Jiming Chen44389238.91