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Heterogeneous Participant Recruitment for Comprehensive Vehicle Sensing

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  • Yazhi Liu
  • Xiong Li

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Widely distributed mobile vehicles wherein various sensing devices and wireless communication interfaces are installed bring vehicular participatory sensing into practice. However, the heterogeneity of vehicles in terms of sensing capability and mobility, and the participants’ expectations on the incentives blackmake the collection of comprehensive sensing data a challenging task. A sensing data quality-oriented optimal heterogeneous participant recruitment strategy is proposed in this paper for vehicular participatory sensing. In the proposed strategy, the differences between the sensing data requirements and the collected sensing data are modeled. An optimization formula is established to model the optimal participant recruitment problem, and a participant utility analysis scheme is built based on the sensing and mobility features of vehicles. Besides, a greedy algorithm is then designed according to the utility of vehicles to recruit the most efficient vehicles with a limited total incentive budget. Real trace-driven simulations show that the proposed strategy can collect 85.4% of available sensing data with 34% incentive budget.

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  • Yazhi Liu & Xiong Li, 2015. "Heterogeneous Participant Recruitment for Comprehensive Vehicle Sensing," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(9), pages 1-19, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0138898
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138898
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