UAV-Assisted Cluster-Based Task Allocation for Mobile Crowdsensing in a Space–Air–Ground–Sea Integrated Network
Author:
Liu Yang1, Li Yong1, Cheng Wei1ORCID, Wang Weiguang2ORCID, Yang Junhua3ORCID
Affiliation:
1. School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710129, China 2. School of Information Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471000, China 3. School of Electronic Engineering, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi’an 710121, China
Abstract
Mobile crowdsensing (MCS), which is a grassroots sensing paradigm that utilizes the idea of crowdsourcing, has attracted the attention of academics. More and more researchers have devoted themselves to adopting MCS in space–air–ground–sea integrated networks (SAGSINs). Given the dynamics of the environmental conditions in SAGSINs and the uncertainty of the sensing capabilities of mobile people, the quality and coverage of the sensed data change periodically. To address this issue, we propose a novel UAV-assisted cluster-based task allocation (UCTA) algorithm for MCS in SAGSINs in a two-stage process. We first introduce the edge nodes and establish a three-layer hierarchical system with UAV-assistance, called “Platform–Edge Cluster–Participants”. Moreover, an edge-aided attribute-based cluster algorithm is designed, aiming at organizing tasks into clusters, which significantly diminishes both the communication overhead and computational complexity while enhancing the efficiency of task allocation. Subsequently, a greedy selection algorithm is proposed to select the final combination that performs the sensing task in each cluster. Extensive simulations are conducted comparing the developed algorithm with the other three benchmark algorithms, and the experimental results unequivocally endorse the superiority of our proposed UCTA algorithm.
Funder
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Biochemistry,Instrumentation,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Analytical Chemistry
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