Download or read book Crowd Assisted Networking and Computing written by Al-Sakib Khan Pathan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crowd computing, crowdsourcing, crowd-associated network (CrAN), crowd-assisted sensing are some examples of crowd-based concepts that harness the power of people on the web or connected via web-like infrastructure to do tasks that are often difficult for individual users or computers to do alone. This creates many challenging issues like assessing reliability and correctness of crowd generated information, delivery of data and information via crowd, middleware for supporting crowdsourcing and crowd computing tasks, crowd associated networking and its security, Quality of Information (QoI) issues, etc. This book compiles the latest advances in the relevant fields.