Designing Incentive Mechanisms for Mobile Crowdsensing with Intermediaries

Algorithm 3

Payment scheme .

Input:

Intermediaries’ biddings: ;

Participation vector

Output:

Intermediaries’ payment:

// Find the smallest losing bids of each

intermediary and stores in an array

minLoserBid;

1 fordo

2 minLoserBid(i) = the smallest losing bid of

intermediary i;

3 Find the two smallest ones from minLoserBid,

denoted as ;

4 fordo

5 ifthen

6 ;

7 else

8 ;

9 return payment vector ;