Promoting Truthful Behavior in Participatory-Sensing Mechanisms

Farhad Farokhi; Iman Shames; Michael Cantoni

doi:10.1109/LSP.2015.2412122

Promoting Truthful Behavior in Participatory-Sensing Mechanisms

Farhad Farokhi, Iman Shames, Michael Cantoni

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1538-1542
Number of pages	5
Journal	IEEE Signal Processing Letters
Volume	22
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LSP.2015.2412122
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2015
Externally published	Yes

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