Promoting Truthful Behavior in Participatory-Sensing Mechanisms

F Farokhi; I Shames; M Cantoni

Journal article

Promoting Truthful Behavior in Participatory-Sensing Mechanisms

F Farokhi, I Shames, M Cantoni

IEEE Signal Processing Letters | Published : 2015

DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2015.2412122

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Abstract

In this letter, the interplay between a class of nonlinear estimators and strategic sensors is studied in several participatory-sensing scenarios. It is shown that for the class of estimators, if the strategic sensors have access to noiseless measurements of the to-be-estimated-variable, truth-telling is an equilibrium of the game that models the interplay between the sensors and the estimator. Furthermore, performance of the proposed estimators is examined in the case that the strategic sensors form coalitions and in the presence of noise.

University of Melbourne Researchers

Farhad Farokhi Author

Iman Shames Author Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Michael Cantoni Author

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Funding Acknowledgements

This work was supported by a McKenzie Fellowship and the Australian Research Council under Grant LP130100605. The associate editor coordinating the review of this manuscript and approving it for publicatiobn was Prof. Qian He.