A mobile crowdsensing system enhanced by cloud-based social networking services

This paper presents TripleS, a novel mobile crowdsensing system enhanced by social networking services, which enables mobile users to participate and perform mobile crowdsensing tasks in an efficient manner. TripleS provides a flexible and universal architecture across mobile devices and cloud computing platforms by integrating the service-oriented architecture with multi-agent frameworks for mobile crowdsensing, with extensive supports to application developers and end users. The customized platform of TripleS enables dynamic deployments and collaborations of services and tasks during run-time of mobile devices. Our practical experiments show that TripleS performs its tasks with a considerable computation efficiency, and low computation and communication overhead on mobile devices. Also, the mobile crowdsensing application developed on TripleS demonstrates the functionalities and practical usage of TripleS.