{"title":"Scalable Stream Processing with Quality of Service for Smart City Crowdsensing Applications","authors":"P. Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Andrea Reale","doi":"10.4108/mca.1.3.e6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/mca.1.3.e6","url":null,"abstract":"Crowdsensing is emerging as a powerful paradigm capable of leveraging the collective, though imprecise, monitoring capabilities of common people carrying smartphones or other personal devices, which can effectively become real-time mobile sensors, collecting information about the physical places they live in. This unprecedented amount of information, considered collectively, offers new valuable opportunities to understand more thoroughly the environment in which we live and, more importantly, gives the chance to use this deeper knowledge to act and improve, in a virtuous loop, the environment itself. However, managing this process is a hard technical challenge, spanning several socio-technical issues: here, we focus on the related quality, reliability, and scalability trade-offs by proposing an architecture for crowdsensing platforms that dynamically self-configure and self-adapt depending on application-specific quality requirements. In the context of this general architecture, the paper will specifically focus on the Quasit distributed stream processing middleware, and show how Quasit can be used to process and analyze crowdsensing-generated data flows with differentiated quality requirements in a highly scalable and reliable way.","PeriodicalId":299985,"journal":{"name":"EAI Endorsed Trans. Mob. Commun. Appl.","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134426801","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":"Route-Over Forwarding Techniques in a 6LoWPAN","authors":"A. Weigel, M. Ringwelski, V. Turau, A. Timm‐Giel","doi":"10.1007/978-3-319-04277-0_10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04277-0_10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299985,"journal":{"name":"EAI Endorsed Trans. Mob. Commun. Appl.","volume":"659 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115122435","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":"Generalized Encoding CRDSA: Maximizing Throughput in Enhanced Random Access Schemes for Satellite","authors":"Manlio Bacco, P. Cassará, E. Ferro, A. Gotta","doi":"10.1007/978-3-319-02762-3_10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02762-3_10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299985,"journal":{"name":"EAI Endorsed Trans. Mob. Commun. Appl.","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116952152","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":"AIRS: A Mobile Sensing Platform for Lifestyle Management Research and Applications","authors":"D. Trossen, D. Pavel","doi":"10.1007/978-3-642-36660-4_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36660-4_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299985,"journal":{"name":"EAI Endorsed Trans. Mob. Commun. Appl.","volume":"139 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128916021","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}
Wissam Chahin, F. Pellegrini, R. E. Azouzi, A. Azad
{"title":"Online Algorithms for Adaptive Optimization in Heterogeneous Delay Tolerant Networks","authors":"Wissam Chahin, F. Pellegrini, R. E. Azouzi, A. Azad","doi":"10.1007/978-3-642-36958-2_23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36958-2_23","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299985,"journal":{"name":"EAI Endorsed Trans. Mob. Commun. Appl.","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132143486","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":"Cross-layer cross-domain adaptation of mobile video services","authors":"J. O. Fajardo, Ianire Taboada, F. Liberal","doi":"10.4108/mca.2012.07-09.e4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/mca.2012.07-09.e4","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with the analysis of user perceived visual quality for mobile multimedia services. H.264/AVC is selected for low resolution video encoding, and a mobile UMTS network is considered for the access to services. First, from subjective tests results, the combined impact of di erent service‐ and radio network‐level parameters is inferred. As a result, di erent cross‐layer adaptation alternatives are proposed to maximize the perceived quality level under di erent service conditions. Afterwards, the backhaul segment is considered taking into account possible congestion e ects after the aggregation of multi‐user media stream. The proposed dynamic adaptation process determines the best combination of media bitrates in order to optimise the overall quality, by making use of information related to network performance both at the radio and backhaul segments.","PeriodicalId":299985,"journal":{"name":"EAI Endorsed Trans. Mob. Commun. Appl.","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131186548","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}
Kun-Chan Lan, Chien-Ming Chou, Che-Chun Wu, Mei-Wen Li
{"title":"LOTIR: A Routing Protocol for Multi-hop V-to-I Communication Using Local Traffic Information","authors":"Kun-Chan Lan, Chien-Ming Chou, Che-Chun Wu, Mei-Wen Li","doi":"10.4108/mca.2012.07-09.e3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/mca.2012.07-09.e3","url":null,"abstract":"Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) is an emerging technology that can be applied to safety, transport efficiency, or infotainment applications for roads and highways. However, due to its unique features, such as dynamic mobility patterns and uneven distributions of vehicles, VANET faces many challenging research issues for robust data dissemination in the network. Many routing protocols have been proposed for VANET in the past few years, and the idea of utilizing a navigation system to assist the routing protocol for selecting the next best forwarder has become increasingly popular. However, it might not be realistic to assume that every vehicle is equipped with a navigation system. In addition, due to privacy concerns, drivers might not want to reveal their planned routes to other cars. In this work, we propose a new routing protocol, called LOTIR (LOcal Traffic Information Routing), that relies on only local traffic information and does not require the assistance of a navigation system. LOTIR is a DTN-based routing protocol that utilizes the car-following theory and traffic light information to decide the next carrier to forward the data to. We implement LOTIR in NS-2, and our results show that it can achieve similar performance as prior work which depends on the availability of global network topology information.","PeriodicalId":299985,"journal":{"name":"EAI Endorsed Trans. Mob. Commun. Appl.","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121648329","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 Trace-Driven Analysis of Wireless Group Communication Mechanisms","authors":"Surendar Chandra, Xuwen Yu","doi":"10.4108/mca.2012.07-09.e5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/mca.2012.07-09.e5","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless access is increasingly ubiquitous while mobile devices that use them are resource rich. These trends allow wireless users to collaborate with each other. We investigate various group communication paradigms that underly collaboration applications. We synthesize durations when members collaborate using wireless device availability traces. Wireless users operate from a variety of locations. Hence, we analyzed the behavior of wireless users in universities, corporations, conference venues, and city-wide hotspots. We show that the availability durations are longer in corporations followed by university and then in hotspots. The number of simultaneously available wireless users is small in all the scenarios. The session lengths are becoming smaller while the durations between sessions are becoming larger. We observed user churn in all the scenarios. We show that synchronous mechanisms require less e ff ort to maintain update synchronicity among the group members. However, distributed mechanisms require a large number of replicas in order to propagate updates among the users. For asynchronous mechanisms, we show that pull-based mechanisms naturally randomize the times when updates are propagated and thus achieve better performance than push based mechanisms. We develop an adaptive approach that customizes the update frequency using the last session duration and show that this mechanism exhibits good performance when the required update frequency intervals are large. We also show that for a given number of gossips, it is preferable to propagate updates to all available nodes rather than increasing the frequency while correspondingly reducing the number of nodes to propagate updates. We develop a middleware to illustrate the practicality of our approach.","PeriodicalId":299985,"journal":{"name":"EAI Endorsed Trans. Mob. Commun. Appl.","volume":"122 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120844033","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":"Logical Link Control and Channel Scheduling for Multichannel Underwater Sensor Networks","authors":"Jun Li, Mylène Toulgoat, Yifeng Zhou, L. Lamont","doi":"10.4108/mca.2012.07-09.e2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/mca.2012.07-09.e2","url":null,"abstract":"With recent developments in terrestrial wireless networks and advances in acoustic communications, multichannel technologies have been proposed to be used in underwater networks to increase data transmission rate over bandwidth-limited underwater channels. Due to high bit error rates in underwater networks, an efficient error control technique is critical in the logical link control (LLC) sublayer to establish reliable data communications over intrinsically unreliable underwater channels. In this paper, we propose a novel protocol stack architecture featuring cross-layer design of LLC sublayer and more efficient packetto-channel scheduling for multichannel underwater sensor networks. In the proposed stack architecture, a selective-repeat automatic repeat request (SR-ARQ) based error control protocol is combined with a dynamic channel scheduling policy at the LLC sublayer. The dynamic channel scheduling policy uses the channel state information provided via cross-layer design. It is demonstrated that the proposed protocol stack architecture leads to more efficient transmission of multiple packets over parallel channels. Simulation studies are conducted to evaluate the packet delay performance of the proposed cross-layer protocol stack architecture with two different scheduling policies: the proposed dynamic channel scheduling and a static channel scheduling. Simulation results show that the dynamic channel scheduling used in the cross-layer protocol stack outperforms the static channel scheduling. It is observed that, when the dynamic channel scheduling is used, the number of parallel channels has only an insignificant impact on the average packet delay. This confirms that underwater sensor networks will benefit from the use of multichannel communications.","PeriodicalId":299985,"journal":{"name":"EAI Endorsed Trans. Mob. Commun. Appl.","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127313095","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}
Yibo Zhu, R. Zhou, Zheng Peng, M. Zuba, Jun-hong Cui
{"title":"An efficient geo-routing aware MAC protocol for underwater acoustic networks","authors":"Yibo Zhu, R. Zhou, Zheng Peng, M. Zuba, Jun-hong Cui","doi":"10.4108/icst.trans.mca.2011.e6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.trans.mca.2011.e6","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose an efficient geo-routing aware MAC protocol (GOAL) for underwater acoustic networks. It smoothly integrates self-adaptation based RTS/CTS, geographic cyber carrier sense and implicit ACK to do combined channel reservation and next hop selection. As a result, it possesses the advantages of both geo-routing protocol and reservation based MAC protocol. Specifically, its self-adaptation based RTS/CTS, node can dynamically find out the best nexthop with low route discovery cost. In addition, through geographic cyber carrier sense, node can map its neighbors’ time slots for sending/receiving DATA packets to its own time line, and thus the collision among data packets can be greatly reduced. With these features, GOAL outperforms geo-routing protocols. Plentiful simulation results show that GOAL provides much higher end-to-end reliability with lower energy consumptions than existing VBF routing with broadcast MAC protocol.","PeriodicalId":299985,"journal":{"name":"EAI Endorsed Trans. Mob. Commun. Appl.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116884267","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}