The widespread use of mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, and smartwatches has
led users to constantly generate various location data during their daily activities …

With the advancement in communication techniques and sensor technologies, mobile
crowdsensing (MCS)—one of the most successful applications of crowdsourcing—has …

To provide fine-grained access to different dimensions of the physical world, the data
uploading in smart cyber-physical systems suffers novel challenges on both energy …

Contemporarily, two emerging techniques, blockchain and edge computing, are driving a
dramatical rapid growth in the field of Internet-of-Things (IoT). Benefits of applying edge …

Spatial Crowdsourcing (SC) is a transformative platform that engages individuals in
collecting and analyzing environmental, social, and other spatio-temporal information. SC …

The popularization of intelligent healthcare devices and big data analytics significantly
boosts the development of Smart Healthcare Networks (SHNs). To enhance the precision of …

Spatial crowdsourcing (SC) is a location-based outsourcing service whereby SC-server
allocates tasks to workers with mobile devices according to the locations outsourced by …

The unabated flurry of research activities to augment various mobile devices in terms of
compute‐intensive task execution by leveraging heterogeneous resources of available …

Cloud Computing (CC) is a promising technology due to its pervasive features, such as
online storage, high scalability, and seamless accessibility, in that it plays an important role …

In the participatory sensing framework, privacy protection of the Internet of Things (IoT) is
very important. In this article, cryptography-based methods are utilized to protect participants' …