Mobile Crowd-Sensing: Challenges, Solutions and Applications

Crowd-sensing is a recent concept in computer science, promoting by the development of mobile sensing devices such as smartphones. In a crowd-sensing application, individuals equipped with sensing devices can sense and share data, and thus a large-scale phenomenon can be extracted from the aggregated data. This book overviews the research results, describes representative real applications and points out the challenges and opportunities for the future research. This book introduces algorithms, mechanisms and privacy issues, it also analyzes the architectures of these applications, including their hardware design and software design.