A Survey on Mobile Crowdsensing Systems: Challenges, Solutions, and Opportunities

Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) has gained significant attention in recent years and has become an appealing paradigm for urban sensing. For data collection, MCS systems rely on contribution from mobile devices of a large number of participants or a crowd. Smartphones, tablets, and wearable devices are de...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Capponi, Andrea, Fiandrino, Claudio, Kantarci, Burak, Foschini, Luca, Kliazovich, Dzmitry, Bouvry, Pascal
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:IMDEA Networks Institute
Repositorio:IMDEA Networks Institute Digital Repository
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:dspace.networks.imdea.org:20.500.12761/747
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12761/747
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Sensors
Taxonomy
Tutorials
Smart phones
Data collection
Monitoring
Mobile crowdsensing
urban sensing
opportunistic sensing
participatory sensing
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Sumario:Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) has gained significant attention in recent years and has become an appealing paradigm for urban sensing. For data collection, MCS systems rely on contribution from mobile devices of a large number of participants or a crowd. Smartphones, tablets, and wearable devices are deployed widely and already equipped with a rich set of sensors, making them an excellent source of information. Mobility and intelligence of humans guarantee higher coverage and better context awareness if compared to traditional sensor networks. At the same time, individuals may be reluctant to share data for privacy concerns. For this reason, MCS frameworks are specifically designed to include incentive mechanisms and address privacy concerns. Despite the growing interest in the research community, MCS solutions need a deeper investigation and categorization on many aspects that span from sensing and communication to system management and data storage. In this paper, we take the research on MCS a step further by presenting a survey on existing works in the domain and propose a detailed taxonomy to shed light on the current landscape and classify applications, methodologies and architectures. Our objective is not only to analyze and consolidate past research but also to outline potential future research directions and synergies with other research areas.