Enhancing participant selection through caching in mobile crowd sensing

Abstract

With the rapid increasing of smart phones and their embedded sensing technologies, mobile crowd sensing (MCS) becomes an emerging sensing paradigm for performing large-scale sensing tasks. One of the key challenges of large-scale mobile crowd sensing systems is how to effectively select the minimum set of participants from the huge user pool to perform the tasks and achieve certain level of coverage. In this paper, we introduce a new MCS architecture which leverages the cached sensing data to fulfill partial sensing tasks in order to reduce the size of selected participant set. We present a newly designed participant selection algorithm with caching and evaluate it via extensive simulations with a real-world mobile dataset.