This book is intended as a reference for researchers in the field of wireless
communications and networking, for electrical and computer engineers who need
to design incentive mechanisms and allocate network resources, and for graduate
students and senior undergraduate students who are interested in mobile crowd
sensing.
We thank the editor, Susan Lagerstrom-Fife, for providing us with the useful
links and instructions, which makes the whole process of preparing the manuscript
go smoothly. We thank the editor, Caroline Flanagan, for her assistance in handling
the publication of this book. FH would like to express her sincere appreciation
to Professor Xuemin (Sherman) Shen for his uninterrupted support and help in
her career and the preparation of the manuscript. This work is supported by the
University of Macau under grant MYRG2016-00171-FST, the Macau Science and
Technology Development Fund under FDCT 121/2014/A3, and joint fund by the
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China and the
Macau Science and Technology Development Fund under grants 037/2017/AMJ
and 020/2014/AMJ.