Mobile crowdsensing as a service: A platform for applications on top of sensing Clouds

Consumer-centric mobile devices, such as smartphones, are an emerging category of devices at the edge of the Internet. Leveraging volunteers and their mobiles as a (sensing) data collection outlet is known as Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) and poses interesting challenges, with particular regard to the management of sensing resource contributors, dealing with their subscription, random and unpredictable join and leave, and node churn.