Yanfeng Zhu, Yibo Zhang, W. Shang, Jin Zhou, Chun Ying
{"title":"Trajectory enabled service support platform for mobile users' behavior pattern mining","authors":"Yanfeng Zhu, Yibo Zhang, W. Shang, Jin Zhou, Chun Ying","doi":"10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2009.6768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2009.6768","url":null,"abstract":"Existing operational support systems of GSM service providers focus on collecting and maintaining massive rough Cell-ID based location data, which cannot satisfy the requirement of new trajectory based services in identifying the behaviors of mobile users. In this paper, we introduce a trajectory enabled service support platform to convert the location data into limited meaningful mobile user's behavior patterns, which benefit the trajectory based services by simplifying the behavior detection. The core technologies of the platform are the pattern selection, which requires to cover the information included in the raw location data as more as possible, and the run-time mining algorithm, which requires less storage space. We propose a new concept, transient entropy, to identify the moving speed of users, and based on which we define and mine four types of behavior patterns: frequent locations, frequent trajectory, meaningful location, and moving mode. By analyzing the sojourn distribution, we find that the sojourn time in each location follows a Zipf distribution, based on which we present a run-time algorithm to mine the behavior patterns with less storage space. A realistic experiments is given to validate the proposed platform and algorithms.","PeriodicalId":163002,"journal":{"name":"2009 6th Annual International Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking & Services, MobiQuitous","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123558730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Dressler, Raphael Zender, U. Lucke, D. Tavangarian
{"title":"A multi-layer approach for cross-technology communication in a pervasive community","authors":"E. Dressler, Raphael Zender, U. Lucke, D. Tavangarian","doi":"10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2009.6996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2009.6996","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a middleware and an application scenario for communication in a pervasive community which is characterized by the use of different network and service technologies. To achieve the required cross-technology communication, we organize devices and applications as members of cells with homogeneous network interfaces, and we combine these cells to a heterogeneous ensemble by a General Purpose Access Point (GPAP). The GPAP enables and organizes a flexible service-based communication between members of different cells. This paper focuses an interconnection between Bluetooth and IP-based networks using service proxying between Bluetooth SDP (Service Discovery Protocol) and Web Services. However, it can be used as a base for service proxying with a variety of other network and SOA technologies. Furthermore, we combine several ensembles by our service-oriented middleware to build a community and enable the communication between devices of different ensembles. Moreover, we look forward to explore and allow seamless roaming for mobile devices as well as their provided services inside the community. For evaluation of our middleware we use cross-technology messaging as an application scenario for a general cross-technology video and audio communication.","PeriodicalId":163002,"journal":{"name":"2009 6th Annual International Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking & Services, MobiQuitous","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131272766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“I can't lie anymore!”: The implications of location automation for mobile social applications","authors":"S. Vihavainen, Antti Oulasvirta, R. Sarvas","doi":"10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2009.6847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2009.6847","url":null,"abstract":"Human factors research has shown that automation is a mixed blessing. It changes the role of the human in the loop with effects on understanding, errors, control, skill, vigilance, and ultimately trust and usefulness. We raise the issue that many current mobile applications involve mechanisms that surreptitiously collect and propagate location information among users and we provide results from the first systematic real world study of the matter. Our observations come from a case study of Jaiku, a mobile microblogging service that automates disclosure and diffusion of location information. Three user groups in Finland and California used Jaiku for several months. The results reveal issues related to control, understanding, emergent practices, and privacy. The results convey that unsuitable automated features can preclude use in a group. While one group found automated features useful, and another was indifferent toward it, the third group stopped using the application almost entirely. To conclude, we discuss the need for user-centered development of automated features in location-based services.","PeriodicalId":163002,"journal":{"name":"2009 6th Annual International Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking & Services, MobiQuitous","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125667225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of cross-layer routing protocols for quality of service in real-time wireless ad hoc sensor networks","authors":"W. Hortos","doi":"10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2009.6812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2009.6812","url":null,"abstract":"The real-time interactions among the nodes of a wireless sensor network (WSN) to cooperatively process data from multiple sensors are modeled. Quality-of-service (QoS) metrics are associated with the quality of fused information: throughput, delay, packet error rate, etc. Multivariate point process (MVPP) models of discrete random events in WSNs establish stochastic characteristics of optimal cross-layer protocols. In previous work, discrete-event, cross-layer interactions in mobile ad hoc network (MANET) protocols have been modeled using a set of concatenated design parameters and associated resource levels by the MVPPs. Characterization of the “best” cross-layer designs for a MANET is formulated by applying the general theory of martingale representations to controlled MVPPs. Performance is described in terms of concatenated protocol parameters and controlled through conditional rates of the MVPPs. Assumptions on WSN characteristics simplify the dynamic programming conditions to yield mathematically tractable descriptions for the optimal routing protocols. Modeling limitations to determination of closed-form solutions versus explicit iterative solutions for ad hoc WSN controls are examined.","PeriodicalId":163002,"journal":{"name":"2009 6th Annual International Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking & Services, MobiQuitous","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128300564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Geiger, Ronald Schertle, Frank Dürr, K. Rothermel
{"title":"Temporal addressing for mobile context-aware communication","authors":"L. Geiger, Ronald Schertle, Frank Dürr, K. Rothermel","doi":"10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2009.6836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2009.6836","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile clients in context-aware systems benefit from the indirect addressing of users via their context (contextcast), such as addressing messages to all users in downtown Toronto whose age is below 35. There is, however, almost no support for a temporal decoupling in such a contextcast system, i.e., the addressing of users that were or will be in a certain context in the past or future, respectively. This could for instance be used to distribute the minutes of a meeting to all people who attended the meeting in room 1.138, 3 days ago, between 1 and 3 pm. To enable a context-aware communication system to address messages with temporal relations, especially those contexts in the past, the system needs to manage information about user context histories. This poses the risk that the system can be abused to profile users, which would most probably hinder acceptance. Therefore, privacy aspects need to be considered in the core design of such a system. We present an extension to our earlier work, which allows a temporal decoupling of messages and users and requires very little additional overhead to manage historic context information. The solution includes mechanisms to efficiently disseminate messages to both users with past and future contexts, while effectively preventing user profiling through the use of virtual identities.","PeriodicalId":163002,"journal":{"name":"2009 6th Annual International Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking & Services, MobiQuitous","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122289676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-layered friendship modeling for location-based Mobile Social Networks","authors":"Nan Li, Guanling Chen","doi":"10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2009.6828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2009.6828","url":null,"abstract":"Location-based Mobile Social Networks (MSNs) are becoming increasingly popular given the success of Online Social Networks (OSNs), such as Facebook and MySpace, and recent availability of open mobile platforms, such as Apple iPhones and Google Android phones. MSNs extend existing OSNs by allowing a user to know when her friends are around and by providing the ability to meet new people who share her interests. There are few studies, however, on how users are connected through these emerging location-based MSNs. In this paper, we present analysis results of a commercial MSN for which we quantified the correlation between users' friendship with their mobility characteristics, social graph properties, and user profiles. The evaluation of the derived model from the empirical traces suggests that the model-based friend recommendation is effective, and its performance is better than well-known Naive Bayes classifier and J48 decision tree algorithms. To the best of our knowledge, this paper presents the first study that models the friendship connections over a real-world location-based MSN.","PeriodicalId":163002,"journal":{"name":"2009 6th Annual International Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking & Services, MobiQuitous","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128826904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Distance encoding in vibro-tactile guidance cues","authors":"Markus Straub, A. Riener, A. Ferscha","doi":"10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2009.6938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2009.6938","url":null,"abstract":"To navigate in unfamiliar places is, for obvious reasons, particularly difficult for blind people. In this research we used vibro-tactile guidance cues with the goal of allowing users to reach their destination with the most efficiency. Our hypothesis was that adding distance information should improve walking speed and accuracy, however, similar results were obtained with and without distance information.","PeriodicalId":163002,"journal":{"name":"2009 6th Annual International Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking & Services, MobiQuitous","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130511284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RFID-based information system for preventing medical errors","authors":"J. Youna, H. Alia, Hamid Sharifb, Biplav Chhetria","doi":"10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2009.6895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2009.6895","url":null,"abstract":"A report by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences estimates that as many as 98,000 people die in U.S. hospitals each year because of medical errors. In this project, we propose an innovative IT-based approach to prevent errors in various medical processes by utilizing advances in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and wireless communications. The goal of the study is to perform an in-depth study of existing RFID technologies for patient care in medical facilities. In the paper, a new system architecture that integrates various wireless technologies such as RFID and Wi-Fi was proposed. In the pilot study, we primarily focused on the limitations and shortcomings of passive RFID technologies in medical settings. Our experimental results show the reliability challenge in the current passive EPC Gen 2 RFID systems for use in a dynamic medical environment.","PeriodicalId":163002,"journal":{"name":"2009 6th Annual International Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking & Services, MobiQuitous","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123080275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A distributed nodes' localisation approach in Wireless Sensor Networks","authors":"Y. Hamam, Karim D Djouani, O. J. Oyedapo","doi":"10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2009.6838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2009.6838","url":null,"abstract":"Node location is of main importance for several areas of applications based on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), for instance location-based services. In this paper, we propose a new distributed approach for nodes'position estimation based on distance measurements. Our approach is close to the cooperative approach based on Curvilinear Component Analysis (CCA) proposed in [13]. The complexity of the proposed approach is O(N) for all the network, but as the approach is distributed, the computation time is quasi-constant per node in the network.","PeriodicalId":163002,"journal":{"name":"2009 6th Annual International Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking & Services, MobiQuitous","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132627854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Tamarit, C. Calafate, Juan-Carlos Cano, P. Manzoni
{"title":"BlueFriend: Using Bluetooth technology for mobile social networking","authors":"P. Tamarit, C. Calafate, Juan-Carlos Cano, P. Manzoni","doi":"10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2009.6904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2009.6904","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present BlueFriend, a novel application for mobile devices that takes advantage of Bluetooth functionalities to create mobile social networks. Our application runs on PDAs and smart phones equipped with a Bluetooth adapter. BlueFriend periodically scans the environment in search of other members of the BlueFriend community; when found, “virtual personal cards” (VPCs) are exchanged with information about user profile, user preferences and likes/dislikes to assess the degree of matching among nearby users. High degrees of matching result in the exchange of personal information and contact details so that connected users are aware of how to reach each other in the future.","PeriodicalId":163002,"journal":{"name":"2009 6th Annual International Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking & Services, MobiQuitous","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121781813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}