Survey on Incentive Strategies for Mobile Crowdsensing System

An emerging trend of computing mode in Internet of Things is mobile crowdsensing, it takes advantage of intelligent terminals people carried around to obtain sensed data and complete large-scale complex social task. However, performing variety sensing tasks may cause some extra cost, such as battery consumption, data traffic consumption, data uploading costs, potential privacy threats, mobile users may lose enthusiasm for participation, which will lead to the failure of sensing activities. Therefore, the incentive mechanism is one of the key issues that must be considered in the mobile crowdsensing system (MCS). In this paper, we review the recently proposed incentive mechanisms and give a comparison. Finally, we give the future research direction of the incentive mechanism in MCS.