Effective truth discovery and fair reward distribution for mobile crowdsensing
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Author(s)
Shi, F
Qin, Zhijin
Wu, Di
McCann, Julie
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
By leveraging the sensing capabilities of consumer mobile devices, mobile crowdsensing (MCS) systems enable a number of new applications for Internet of Things (IoT), such as traffic management, environmental monitoring, and localisation. However, the sensing data collected from the crowd workers are of various qualities, making it difficult to discover the ground truth and maintain the fairness of incentivisation schemes. In this paper, we propose a truth discovery algorithm based on a two-stage Maximum Likelihood Estimator (MLE), which explicitly characterises the heterogeneous sensing capabilities of the crowd and is able to estimate ground truth accurately using only a small amount of data from IoT infrastructures. Moreover, based on the truth discovery algorithm, two reward distribution schemes, LRDS and MRDS, are proposed to ensure fairness of rewarding the crowd according to their effort levels. We evaluate the estimation accuracy of the truth discovery algorithm and the fairness of the reward distribution schemes using both simulations and real-world MCS campaigns. The evaluation results indicate that the proposed methods achieve superior performance compared with state-of-the-art methods in terms of estimation accuracy and fairness of reward distribution.
Date Issued
2018-12-01
Date Acceptance
2018-09-20
Citation
Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 2018, 51, pp.88-103
ISSN
1574-1192
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
88
End Page
103
Journal / Book Title
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Volume
51
Copyright Statement
© 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. This manuscript is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Sponsor
Commission of the European Communities
Intel Corporation
The Alan Turing Institute
Grant Number
645198
CODSE_P61388
ATIGA001
Subjects
0805 Distributed Computing
1702 Cognitive Science
Networking & Telecommunications
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2018-10-04