4W1H in mobile crowd sensing

With the rapid proliferation of sensor-rich smartphones, mobile crowd sensing has become a popular research field. In this article, 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 the mobile crowd sensing domain. Furthermore, we attempt to foresee some new research directions in future mobile crowd sensing research.

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