Title
Online Task Assignment for Crowdsensing in Predictable Mobile Social Networks.
Abstract
Mobile crowdsensing is a new paradigm in which a crowd of mobile users exploit their carried smart phones to conduct complex sensing tasks. In this paper, we focus on the makespan sensitive task assignment problems for the crowdsensing in mobile social networks, where the mobility model is predicable, and the time of sending tasks and recycling results is non-negligible. To solve the problems, we propose an Average makespan sensitive Online Task Assignment (AOTA) algorithm and a Largest makespan sensitive Online Task Assignment (LOTA) algorithm. In AOTA and LOTA, the online task assignments are viewed as multiple rounds of virtual offline task assignments. Moreover, a greedy strategy of small-task-first-assignment and earliest-idle-user-receive-task is adopted for each round of virtual offline task assignment in AOTA, while the greedy strategy of large-task-first-assignment and earliest-idle-user-receive-task is adopted for the virtual offline task assignments in LOTA. Based on the two greedy strategies, both AOTA and LOTA can achieve nearly optimal online decision performances. We prove this and give the competitive ratios of the two algorithms. In addition, we also demonstrate the significant performance of the two algorithms through extensive simulations, based on four real MSN traces and a synthetic MSN trace.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/TMC.2016.2616473
IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Mobile communication,Sensors,Mobile computing,IEEE 802.11 Standard,Social network services,IEEE members,Smart phones
Mobile computing,Social network,Job shop scheduling,Delay-tolerant networking,Mobile social network,Computer science,Mobility model,Computer network,Exploit,Mobile telephony,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
16
8
1536-1233
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
18
0.65
25
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mingjun Xiao152041.54
Jie Wu28307592.07
Liusheng Huang31082123.52
Ruhong Cheng4180.99
Yunsheng Wang520412.54