4W1H in mobile crowd sensing

Daqing Zhang (1, 2) , Leye Wang (1, 2) , Haoyi Xiong (1, 2) , Bin Guo (3)

1 SAMOVAR - Services répartis, Architectures, MOdélisation, Validation, Administration des Réseaux
2 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
3 NPU - Northwestern Polytechnical University [Xi'an]

With the rapid proliferation of sensor-rich smartphones, mobile crowd sensing (MCS) has become a popular research field. In this paper, we propose a four-stage life cycle (i.e., Task Creation, Task Assignment, Individual Task Execution, and Crowd Data Integration) to characterize the mobile crowd sensing process, and use 4W1H (i.e., What, When, Where, Who, and How) to sort out the research problems in MCS domain. Furthermore, we attempt to foresee some new research directions in future MCS research.

Domaines: Informatique mobile

Daqing Zhang, Leye Wang, Haoyi Xiong, Bin Guo. 4W1H in mobile crowd sensing. IEEE Communications Magazine, 2014, 52, pp.42 - 48. ⟨10.1109/MCOM.2014.6871668⟩. ⟨hal-01078233⟩