Abstract:To address the problems of high energy consumption, poor link stability, and low transmission efficiency for large-scale tasks caused by multi-hop transmission of underwater nodes in the Ocean Internet of Things (OIoT), a crowdsourcing task allocation algorithm based on fuzzy logic reputation is proposed. First, a crowdsourcing-based collaborative transmission framework for OIoT is constructed. The comprehensive reputation value of ships is calculated by jointly considering historical fulfillment rate, data integrity, and user feedback. On this basis, a reputation-driven ship selection mechanism is designed. Then, dynamic task allocation in complex marine environments is achieved by integrating task-scale awareness and gradient-enhanced forwarding. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the baseline algorithms in task completion rate, transmission stability, and energy consumption control, especially under low ship-density and large-task scenarios, where it exhibits better adaptability and robustness. Under the same ship density, the average task completion rate reaches 87.0%, which is 8.3%, 9.9%, and 25.1% higher than that of the other three baseline algorithms, respectively, while the average energy consumption is reduced by 28.8%, 39.9%, and 71.7%, respectively. These results indicate that the proposed algorithm can effectively reduce the transmission burden of underwater nodes and improve the efficiency of ocean data offloading.