Title :
MobiSense — mobile network services for coordinated participatory sensing
Author :
Reddy, Sasank ; Samanta, Vids ; Burke, Jeff ; Estrin, Deborah ; Hansen, Mark ; Srivastava, Mani
Author_Institution :
Univ. of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
Cellular and Wi-Fi networks now form a global substrate that provides billions of mobile phone users with consistent, location-aware communication and multimedia data access. On this substrate is emerging a new class of mobile phone applications that use the phones location, image and acoustic sensors, and enable people to choose what to sense and when to share data about themselves and their surroundings. Peoples´ natural movement through and among living, work, and ldquothirdrdquo spaces, provides spatial and temporal coverage for these modalities, the character of which is impossible to achieve through embedded instrumentation alone. This paper proposes a network service architecture for participatory sensing, describing challenges in (1) network coordination services enabling applications to efficiently select, incentivize and task mobile users based on measures of coverage, capabilities and interests; (2) attestation mechanisms to enable data consumers to assign trust to the data they access; and (3) participatory privacy regulation mechanisms used by data contributors to control what data they share.
Keywords :
cellular radio; multimedia communication; wireless LAN; wireless sensor networks; Wi-Fi network; acoustic sensors; attestation mechanism; cellular network; coordinated participatory sensing; embedded instrumentation; image sensors; location-aware communication; mobile network service; multimedia data access; participatory privacy regulation mechanism; spatial-temporal coverage; Acoustic sensors; Bluetooth; Data analysis; Data privacy; Information analysis; Instruments; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Multimedia communication; Particle measurements;
Conference_Titel :
Autonomous Decentralized Systems, 2009. ISADS '09. International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Athens
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4327-7
DOI :
10.1109/ISADS.2009.5207328