Dynamic resource reuse towards participatory sensing networks

Abstract

In recent years the demand and density of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) deployments has generated overwhelming underutilization of resources across multiple deployments. More recently, the proliferation of smartphone usage has augmented sensing architectures with readily available resources to enable data collection in real-time; aiding the adoption of participatory sensing network (PSN) paradigms. Unfortunately both literature domains remain disparate, and their operational mandates dictate significant variance despite their apparent common goals. In this paper we present a formal paradigm for resource representation across ubiquitous platforms, and present dynamic heuristics for utilizing WSNs and participatory-based transient resources towards serving multiple applications in concurrency. The presented paradigm, namely Dynamic Resource Reuse (DRR) WSN, supports multiple owners of resources and incentivizes their collaboration via token-reward systems. We capitalize on dynamic incentive mechanisms to solicit the contribution of resources from WSNs and PSNs. The core contribution of this work lies in operational synergy, facilitating cross-network functional utilization of all readily available resources, despite their network ownership.