Incentive mechanisms for smartphone collaboration in data acquisition and distributed computing

• Published in: 2012 Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM pp. 1701 - 1709
• Main Authors: Lingjie Duan, Kubo, T., Sugiyama, K., Jianwei Huang, Hasegawa, T., Walrand, J.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.03.2012
• Subjects: Collaboration; Computational modeling; Contracts; Data acquisition; Distributed computing; Games

This paper analyzes and compares different incentive mechanisms for a client to motivate the collaboration of smartphone users on both data acquisition and distributed computing applications. Data acquisition from a large number of users is essential to build a rich database and support emerging loc...