Truthful resource allocation in selfish sensor web

Abstract

Sensor Web, as an extension of Sensor Networks, is expected to be used in the distributed, large-scale environment. With the help of Internet, its application can even be extended to the world wide. And in the distributed environment, a Sensor Web usually consists of different sensor networks or single sensor owned by different organizations such as research institutions, companies or even individual user. So maximizing their benefits is what the sensors most concern about. In other words, the sensors in Sensor web are rational and selfish. In this paper, we discuss the selfish problems of Sensor Web and resolve them using specific designed mechanism. We describe several scenarios of the applications in Sensor Web and consider the variable cost and value issues which are, to the best of our knowledge, first time studied in the Sensor Web. In the end, our mechanisms are proved to be truthful and can be extended to many other applications. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.