IPSN '08 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
Virtual trip lines for distributed privacy-preserving traffic monitoring
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
A participation incentive market mechanism for allocating heterogeneous network services
GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
Examining micro-payments for participatory sensing data collections
Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference on Ubiquitous computing
WiFi access point deployment for efficient mobile data offloading
Proceedings of the first ACM international workshop on Practical issues and applications in next generation wireless networks
WiFi access point deployment for efficient mobile data offloading
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
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By using personal mobile devices, participatory sensing provides an alternative to deploying dedicated mobile nodes to perform data acquisition tasks in areas where human carriers are already present. However, this application comes with some unique challenges. In this paper, we study the challenges resulting from social concerns of participants in a participatory sensing application and propose a socially aware auction mechanism to address them. Through simulations, we compare the proposed mechanism to several existing mechanisms. The results demonstrate that, with the right configuration, our proposed mechanism can decrease the cost for the data sinks and decrease the privacy loss and battery usage of participants while preserving their participation.