{"title":"ToSS-it: A Cloud-Based Throwaway Spatial Index Structure for Dynamic Location Data","authors":"Afsin Akdogan, C. Shahabi, Ugur Demiryurek","doi":"10.1109/MDM.2014.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDM.2014.37","url":null,"abstract":"The widespread use of GPS-enabled devices have led to a number of emerging applications that require monitoring and querying a large number of moving objects, such as in location-based services, mobile phone social networking, UAV surveillance, and car navigation systems. In such applications, indexes for moving objects must support queries efficiently and also cope with frequent updates. In this paper, we propose a cloud-based throwaway index structure, dubbed ToSS-it, where we generate the index from scratch in a short period of time rather than updating it with every location change of the moving objects. ToSS-it employs inter-node and intra-node multi-core parallelism paradigm to rapidly construct a distributed Voronoi Diagram. ToSS-it scales out by using a voronoi partitioning technique that minimizes the network message exchanges between the nodes (i.e., The major overhead in parallel generation of Voronoi Diagrams), and scales up since it fully exploits the multi-core CPUs available on each server. As a comparison point, with the state-of-the-art cloud-based spatial index structure (RT-CAN), if at least 7% of the objects are moving and issue updates to the index, it is faster to recreate ToSS-it from scratch than updating RT-CAN.","PeriodicalId":322071,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 15th International Conference on Mobile Data Management","volume":"11 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130319265","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}
Giannis Kazdaridis, D. Stavropoulos, Stavros Ioannidis, T. Korakis, S. Lalis, L. Tassiulas
{"title":"A Demonstration of the NITOS BikesNet Framework","authors":"Giannis Kazdaridis, D. Stavropoulos, Stavros Ioannidis, T. Korakis, S. Lalis, L. Tassiulas","doi":"10.1109/MDM.2014.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDM.2014.55","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present NITOS Bikes Net, a framework for mobile sensing in a city-wide environment offering experimentation capabilities. More Specifically, we present a custom-made and modular prototype device that can be easily mounted on volunteers' bicycles dedicated to collecting environmental measurements and available WiFi networks. In addition, we present our enhancements in OMF framework through which we remotely control the operation of the developed devices, whenever they experience back-end connection. Finally, we analyze an indicative demonstration experiment which illustrates the capabilities of the developed framework.","PeriodicalId":322071,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 15th International Conference on Mobile Data Management","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116827102","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}
Saket K. Sathe, R. Melamed, Peter Bak, S. Kalyanaraman
{"title":"Enabling Location-Based Services 2.0: Challenges and Opportunities","authors":"Saket K. Sathe, R. Melamed, Peter Bak, S. Kalyanaraman","doi":"10.1109/MDM.2014.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDM.2014.45","url":null,"abstract":"The next-generation mobile devices include smart watches, wristbands, wearables (e.g., Google Glass), etc. In the future such devices will constitute a large fraction of the total devices available in the market [1]. Latest studies confirm that location-based services are the most requested feature by developers with a market share of 13B in 2013 and have expected exponential growth [2]. Future location-based applications/services will use the data generated by the new mobile devices for providing enhanced user experience. This paper presents a vision of such next-generation location-based services, which we call LBS 2.0. We present the challenges and opportunities that LBS 2.0 will pose for mobile data management.","PeriodicalId":322071,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 15th International Conference on Mobile Data Management","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133474412","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":"Hybrid Queries over Symbolic and Spatial Trajectories: A Usage Scenario","authors":"M. Damiani, H. Issa, R. H. Güting, Fabio Valdés","doi":"10.1109/MDM.2014.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDM.2014.49","url":null,"abstract":"Symbolic trajectories is a novel data model recently proposed for the modeling and querying of temporally annotated sequences of symbolic descriptions, representing e.g. transportation means, places of interest, and so forth. Unlike geometric trajectories, symbolic trajectories capture the thematic dimension of movement. In this demonstration, we illustrate a practical approach to the querying of hybrid trajectories, combining the symbolic and geometric dimension in a multidimensional trajectory. The system runs on the Secondo moving object database. The multi-dimensional trajectories are obtained from the GeoLife dataset.","PeriodicalId":322071,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 15th International Conference on Mobile Data Management","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124528174","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}
Khalid Alhamazani, R. Ranjan, P. Jayaraman, Karan Mitra, Meisong Wang, Zhiqiang George Huang, Lizhe Wang, F. Rabhi
{"title":"Real-Time QoS Monitoring for Cloud-Based Big Data Analytics Applications in Mobile Environments","authors":"Khalid Alhamazani, R. Ranjan, P. Jayaraman, Karan Mitra, Meisong Wang, Zhiqiang George Huang, Lizhe Wang, F. Rabhi","doi":"10.1109/MDM.2014.74","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDM.2014.74","url":null,"abstract":"The service delivery model of cloud computing acts as a key enabler for big data analytics applications enhancing productivity, efficiency and reducing costs. The ever increasing flood of data generated from smart phones and sensors such as RFID readers, traffic cams etc require innovative provisioning and QoS monitoring approaches to continuously support big data analytics. To provide essential information for effective and efficient bid data analytics application QoS monitoring, in this paper we propose and develop CLAMS-Cross-Layer Multi-Cloud Application Monitoring-as-a-Service Framework. The proposed framework: (a) performs multi-cloud monitoring, and (b) addresses the issue of cross-layer monitoring of applications. We implement and demonstrate CLAMS functions on real-world multi-cloud platforms such as Amazon and Azure.","PeriodicalId":322071,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 15th International Conference on Mobile Data Management","volume":"272 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122469984","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}
Thor S. Prentow, H. Blunck, Kaj Grønbæk, M. Kjærgaard
{"title":"Estimating Common Pedestrian Routes through Indoor Path Networks Using Position Traces","authors":"Thor S. Prentow, H. Blunck, Kaj Grønbæk, M. Kjærgaard","doi":"10.1109/MDM.2014.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDM.2014.11","url":null,"abstract":"Accurate information about how people commonly travel in a given large-scale building environment and which routes they take for given start and destination points is essential for applications such as indoor navigation, route prediction, and mobile work planning and logistics. In this paper, we propose methods for detecting commonly used routes by robust aggregation, clustering, and merging of indoor position traces. The developed methods overcome three specific challenges for detecting commonly used routes in an indoor setting based on position data: i) a high ratio between path-density and positioning-accuracy, ii) a flat path hierarchy, and iii) providing cost-effective scalability. Through an evaluation based on data collected by staff members at a hospital covering more than 10 hectare over three floors, we show that the proposed methods detect routes that are representative of the commonly used routes between locations. These methods are sufficiently efficient to provide common routes based on real-time data from thousands of devices simultaneously. Furthermore, we show that the methods operate robustly even on basis of noisy and coarse-grained position estimates as provided by large-scale deployable indoor Wi-Fi positioning systems, and with no prior information on building layout.","PeriodicalId":322071,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 15th International Conference on Mobile Data Management","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130554456","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":"Mobile Big Data Analytics: Research, Practice, and Opportunities","authors":"D. Zeinalipour-Yazti, S. Krishnaswamy","doi":"10.1109/MDM.2014.73","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDM.2014.73","url":null,"abstract":"The rapid expansion of broadband mobile networks by Telecom Operators, has introduced a versatile global infrastructure that internally generates vast amounts of spatio-temporal network-level data (e.g., User id, location, device type, etc.) At the same time, mobile app vendors have nowadays at their fingertips massive amounts of app-level data collected through implicit or explicit crowd sourcing schemes with multi-sensing smartphones that have become a commodity. Mobile big data analytics refers to the discovery of previously unknown meaningful patterns and knowledge from a few dozen terabytes to many petabytes of data collected from mobile users at the network-level or the app-level. Example analytics range from high-level metrics and summaries (e.g., Through clustering, classification and association rule mining) useful to executive managers to alert-based analytics (e.g., Anomaly detection) useful to front-line engineers and users. This panel will explore how the academia and industry are tackling mobile big data analytic challenges. It will also identify and debate the key challenges and opportunities, in terms of applications, queries, architectures, to which the mobile data management and mobile data mining communities should contribute to.","PeriodicalId":322071,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 15th International Conference on Mobile Data Management","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116276426","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":"Exploring Location-Related Data on Smart Phones for Activity Inference","authors":"Xiao Wen Ruan, Shou Chung Lee, Wen-Chih Peng","doi":"10.1109/MDM.2014.71","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDM.2014.71","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a framework to infer different people's activity from the view of both the geographical habit and temporal habit of user. Such a personal activity inference framework is a crucial prerequisite for intelligent user experience, and power management of smart phones. By analyzing the real activity log data, we extract 3 kinds of features: 1) The geographical feature captures the user's activity preference of places, 2) The temporal feature records the routine habit of user's activity, 3) The semantic feature obtained from location-based social network can be used as an activity reference of public opinion for each location. Finally, we hybrid the features to build a Semantic-based Activity Inference Model (SAIM). To evaluate our proposed framework SAIM, we compared it with the state-of-art methods over a real dataset. The experimental results show that our framework could accurately inference user's activity and each feature of the three has different inferring ability for different user.","PeriodicalId":322071,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 15th International Conference on Mobile Data Management","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116518416","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 Framework for Continuous Group Activity Recognition Using Mobile Devices: Concept and Experimentation","authors":"Amin Bakhshandehabkenar, S. Loke, J. Rahayu","doi":"10.1109/MDM.2014.62","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDM.2014.62","url":null,"abstract":"Group Activity Recognition (GAR) is a challenging research area in context-aware computing which has attracted much attention recently. Many studies have been conducted in the field of activity recognition (AR) along with their applications in domains such as health, smart homes, daily living and life logging. However, still many open issues exist. Lack of an energy-efficient approach is one of the most vital issues in the context of AR. GAR work often suffers from energy consumption issues for the reason that, apart from AR process, there is the requirement to have more interaction among members of the group and a need to run more complex recognition processes. Moreover, almost all work in GAR are technology-oriented and assume that our real-life environment remains fixed once the system has been established, but this may not be the case. Hence, we propose a framework called Group Sense for GAR towards addressing these issues. Also, a relatively simple scheme for GAR, with a protocol for the exchange of information required for GAR, has been implemented, tested and evaluated. We then conclude with lessons learnt for GAR.","PeriodicalId":322071,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 15th International Conference on Mobile Data Management","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133705642","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":"Using Location-Based Social Networks for Time-Constrained Information Dissemination","authors":"Juliana Litou, Ioannis Boutsis, V. Kalogeraki","doi":"10.1109/MDM.2014.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDM.2014.26","url":null,"abstract":"Location-based social networks have evolved into powerful tools in recent years. The ability to embed location information in Social Networks such as Facebook, Foursquare and Twitter creates exciting opportunities for users to disseminate and exchange geolocation information in a variety of domains. The problem of exploiting the social ties between the users for maximizing information reach has become a topic of great interest, and many challenges have to be met. In this work we study the problem of efficient information dissemination in location-based social networks under time constraints. The objective is to identify a subset of individuals to propagate the information and make intelligent route selection that can result in maximizing the reach within a time window. Our detailed experimental results illustrate the feasibility and performance of our approach.","PeriodicalId":322071,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 15th International Conference on Mobile Data Management","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133829124","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}