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http://dx.doi.org/10.3837/tiis.2018.01.008

Incentive Mechanism in Participatory Sensing for Ambient Assisted Living  

Yao, Hu (Beijing Laboratory of Advanced Information Networks Beijing Key Laboratory of Network System Architecture and Convergence Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications)
Muqing, Wu (Beijing Laboratory of Advanced Information Networks Beijing Key Laboratory of Network System Architecture and Convergence Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications)
Tianze, Li (Beijing Laboratory of Advanced Information Networks Beijing Key Laboratory of Network System Architecture and Convergence Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications)
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KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS) / v.12, no.1, 2018 , pp. 159-177 More about this Journal
Abstract
Participatory sensing is becoming popular and has shown its great potential in data acquisition for ambient assisted living. In this paper, we propose an incentive mechanism in participatory sensing for ambient assisted living, which benefits both the platform and the mobile devices that participated in the sensing task. Firstly, we analyze the profit of participant and platform, and a Stackelberg game model is formulated. The model takes privacy, reputation, power state and quality of data into consideration, and aims at maximizing the profit for both participant and publisher. The discussion of properties of the game show that there exists an unique Stackelberg equilibrium. Secondly, two algorithms are given: one describes how to reach the Stackelberg equilibrium and the other presents the procedures of employing the incentive strategy. Finally, we conduct simulations to evaluate the properties and effectiveness of the proposed mechanism. Simulation results show that the proposed incentive mechanism works well, and the participants and the publisher will be benefitted from it. With the mechanism, the total amount of sensory data can be maximized and the quality of the data can be guaranteed effectively.
Keywords
Ambient assisted living; participatory sensing; incentive mechanisms; game theory;
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