Competition-Based Participant Recruitment for Delay-Sensitive Crowdsourcing Applications in D2D Networks

Device-to-Device (D2D) networks impose a significant challenge on delay-sensitive crowdsourcing due to the highly nondeterministic and intermittent network connectivity. Under this setting, the paper investigates a participant recruitment problem in which an initial set of recruited nodes, which we call seeds, need to make an optimal decision on what other nodes to recruit to perform the crowdsourcing task. These seeds face the dilemma that...