A novel resource management scheme for virtualized cyber–physical–social system

Cyber–physical–social systems (CPSSs) can realize the coordination of the physical world, cyber space, and society. This article presents a virtualized CPSS architecture with a user incentive scheme. The proposal supports the dimension-extended resource management for virtualized CPSSs, where humans are viewed as an additional network resource to be jointly optimized with other resources, i.e., communication, caching, and computing resources. The proposal aims at maximizing the profit of the virtual CPSS operator based on the average spectrum efficiency and user reputation and capability evaluation. Simulation results indicate that the proposal can fully mobilize high-quality users and meanwhile provide superior services to them; thus it can motivate humans to regularize or modify their behaviors in the direction of improvement in overall revenue.