Sustainable Incentives for Mobile Crowdsensing: Auctions, Lotteries, and Trust and Reputation Systems
This is an incremental review article for researchers and practitioners in mobile crowdsensing, summarizing existing mechanisms without introducing new methods.
The paper tackles the problem of motivating sustained participation in mobile crowdsensing systems by reviewing design principles of six incentive mechanisms, including auctions, lotteries, and trust systems, with a focus on sustainability.
Proper incentive mechanisms are critical for mobile crowdsensing systems to motivate people to actively and persistently participate. This article provides an exposition of design principles of six incentive mechanisms, drawing special attention to the sustainability issue. We cover three primary classes of incentive mechanisms: auctions, lotteries, and trust and reputation systems, as well as three other frameworks of promising potential: bargaining games, contract theory, and market-driven mechanisms.