Dynamic Sensor Renting in RF-powered Crowdsensing Service Market with Blockchain

Shaohan Feng; Wenbo Wang; Dusit Niyato; Dong In Kim; Ping Wang

doi:10.1109/WCNC.2019.8885620

Dynamic Sensor Renting in RF-powered Crowdsensing Service Market with Blockchain

Shaohan Feng, Wenbo Wang, Dusit Niyato, Dong In Kim, Ping Wang

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Abstract

Embedding sensors on wireless devices for collaborative environment sensing has been envisioned as a cost-effective solution for IoT applications. However, existing IoT platforms faces challenges, e.g., unsustainablility due to the limited on-device battery and tremendous cost of deploying middlewares for centralized task dispatching. In this paper, we employ wireless energy transfer and permissionless blockchains to construct a sustainable and decentralized IoT crowdsensing platform. Therein, IoT sensing cloud composed of multiple co-located sensors is wirelessly powered by RF-energy beacons for data sensing and transmission. The data is then forwarded to the blockchain for distributed data/transaction verification and trading. The data users access the crowdsensing service by renting sensors from the sensing clouds. Both the sensing clouds and data users are self-interested and aim to maximize their individual profits. The sensing clouds handle the interference of concurrent wireless transmissions and the on-chain transaction cost. Meanwhile, each user distributes its limited budget over the sensing clouds to optimize the service quality. We formulate a Stackelberg differential game to analyze the interaction among the sensing clouds and data users. Then, we investigate the Stackelberg equilibrium by capitalizing on Pontryagin's maximum principle. Furthermore, we provide a series of insightful numerical results about the Stackelberg equilibrium.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2019 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2019
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538676462
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2019.8885620
State	Published - Apr 2019
Externally published	Yes
Event	2019 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2019 - Marrakesh, Morocco Duration: 15 Apr 2019 → 19 Apr 2019

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Name	IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC
Volume	2019-April
ISSN (Print)	1525-3511

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Conference	2019 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2019
Country/Territory	Morocco
City	Marrakesh
Period	15/04/19 → 19/04/19

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Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Grant funded by the Korean Government under Grant 2014R1A5A1011478, WASP/NTU M4082187 (4080), Singapore MOE Tier 1 under Grant 2017-T1-002-007 RG122/17, MOE Tier 2 under Grant MOE2014-T2-2-015 ARC4/15, NRF2015-NRF-ISF001-2277, and EMA Energy Resilience under Grant NRF2017EWT-EP003-041.

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© 2019 IEEE.

Keywords

Crowdsensing
Stackelberg differential game
blockchain
energy harvesting
evolutionary game

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Feng, S., Wang, W., Niyato, D., Kim, D. I., & Wang, P. (2019). Dynamic Sensor Renting in RF-powered Crowdsensing Service Market with Blockchain. In 2019 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2019 [8885620] (IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC; Vol. 2019-April). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2019.8885620

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Feng, S, Wang, W, Niyato, D, Kim, DI & Wang, P 2019, Dynamic Sensor Renting in RF-powered Crowdsensing Service Market with Blockchain. in 2019 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2019., 8885620, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC, vol. 2019-April, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2019, Marrakesh, Morocco, 15/04/19. https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2019.8885620

Dynamic Sensor Renting in RF-powered Crowdsensing Service Market with Blockchain. / Feng, Shaohan; Wang, Wenbo; Niyato, Dusit et al.
2019 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2019. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019. 8885620 (IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC; Vol. 2019-April).

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