Designing Incentive Mechanisms for Mobile Crowdsensing with Intermediaries

Table 1

Key notations in this paper.

Sym	Meaning	Sym	Meaning
	The sensing platform		The set of all intermediaries
	The -th intermediary		The number of intermediaries
	Number of ’ smartphones		-th user of -th intermediary
	Task launched by platform		The number of data needed
	The data specification		Platform mechanism
	platform allocation scheme		’ participation level
	platform payment scheme		payment to
	’ bidding strategy		’ sorted smartphone ID list
	-th id in		payment to
	’ true cost per data		’ bid
	’ utility		’ utility