Incentivizing Massive Unknown Workers for Budget-Limited Crowdsensing: From Off-Line and On-Line Perspectives

• Published in: IEEE/ACM transactions on networking Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 2406 - 2421
• Main Authors: Li, Feng, Chai, Yuqi, Yang, Huan, Hu, Pengfei, Duan, Lingjie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.06.2024; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Budgets; Combinatorial analysis; Context; Crowdsensing; Exploitation; Hypercubes; incentive mechanisms; multi-armed bandits; Proposals; Sensors; Task analysis; Tradeoffs; Uncertainty; Upper bounds; Workers

How to incentivize strategic workers using limited budget is a very fundamental problem for crowdsensing systems; nevertheless, since the sensing abilities of the workers may not always be known as prior knowledge due to the diversities of their sensor devices and behaviors, it is difficult to prope...