{"title":"A novel communications protocol using geographic routing for swarming UAVs performing a Search Mission","authors":"Robert L. Lidowski, B. Mullins, R. Baldwin","doi":"10.1109/PERCOM.2009.4912764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOM.2009.4912764","url":null,"abstract":"This paper develops a novel communications protocol for autonomous swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) searching a 2-dimensional grid. The search protocol, the UAV Search Mission Protocol (USMP), combines inter-UAV communication with geographic routing to improve search efficiency in terms of total searches, distance traveled by UAVs, and the minimization of UAV direction changes. By determining where search state updates impact search decisions, messages are geographically routed to improve search efficiency. USMP and the geographic greedy perimeter stateless routing (GPSR) protocol are studied via simulation using OPNET Modeler 12.0. Geographic routing degrades performance by at least 20% in total searches and distance traveled, but improves direction changes by 6.7%. Overall, USMP improves performance by as much as 188% compared to scenarios without inter-UAV communication.","PeriodicalId":322416,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications","volume":"196 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132247295","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":"Quality-of-Inference aware context determination","authors":"Nirmalya Roy","doi":"10.1109/PERCOM.2009.4912815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOM.2009.4912815","url":null,"abstract":"Energy-efficient determination of an individual's context (both physiological and activity) is an important technical challenge for assisted living environments. Given the expected availability of multiple sensors, context determination may be viewed as an estimation problem over multiple sensor data streams. This paper develops a formal and practically applicable model to capture the tradeoff between the accuracy of context estimation and the communication overheads of sensing. In particular, we propose the use of tolerance ranges to reduce an individual sensor's reporting frequency, while ensuring acceptable accuracy of the derived context. In our vision, applications specify their minimally acceptable value for a Quality-of-Inference (QoINF) metric. We develop an optimization technique allowing the context service to compute both the best set of sensors and their associated tolerance values that satisfy the specified QoINF at a minimum communication cost. Experimental results with SunSPOT sensors demonstrate the potential impact of this approach.","PeriodicalId":322416,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115628023","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}
S. Holloway, Drew Stovall, Jorge Lara-Garduno, C. Julien
{"title":"Opening pervasive computing to the masses using the SEAP middleware","authors":"S. Holloway, Drew Stovall, Jorge Lara-Garduno, C. Julien","doi":"10.1109/PERCOM.2009.4912850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOM.2009.4912850","url":null,"abstract":"The increasing availability of sensing devices has made the possibility of context-aware pervasive computing applications real. However, constructing this software requires extensive knowledge about the devices and specialized programming languages for interacting with them. While the nature of pervasive computing lends users to demand individualized applications, complexities render programming embedded devices unapproachable. In this paper we introduce the SEAP (Sensor Enablement for the Average Programmer) middleware which applies existing technologies developed for web programming to the task of collecting and using sensor data. We show how this approach can be used to create new applications and to update existing web applications to accept sensor data.","PeriodicalId":322416,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117200589","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}
S. Bosch, M. Marin-Perianu, R. Marin-Perianu, H. Scholten, P. Havinga
{"title":"Follow me! mobile team coordination in wireless sensor and actuator networks","authors":"S. Bosch, M. Marin-Perianu, R. Marin-Perianu, H. Scholten, P. Havinga","doi":"10.1109/PERCOM.2009.4912763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOM.2009.4912763","url":null,"abstract":"Autonomous vehicles are used in areas hazardous to humans, with significantly greater utility than the equivalent, manned vehicles. This paper explores the idea of a coordinated team of autonomous vehicles, with applications in cooperative surveillance, mapping unknown areas, disaster management or space exploration. Each vehicle is augmented with a wireless sensor node with movement sensing capabilities. One of the vehicles is the leader and is manually controlled by a remote controller. The rest of the vehicles are autonomous followers controlled by wireless actuator nodes. Speed and orientation are computed by the sensor nodes in real time using inertial navigation techniques. The leader periodically transmits these measures to the followers, which implement a lightweight fuzzy logic controller for imitating the leader's movement pattern. The solution is not restricted to vehicles on wheels, but supports any moving entities capable of determining their velocity and heading, thus opening promising perspectives for machine-to-machine and human-to-machine spontaneous interactions in the field. Visit [1] to see a video demonstration of the system.","PeriodicalId":322416,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125020506","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":"Towards privacy-sensitive participatory sensing","authors":"Kuan Lun Huang, S. Kanhere, Wen Hu","doi":"10.1109/PERCOM.2009.4912864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOM.2009.4912864","url":null,"abstract":"The ubiquity of mobile devices has brought forth the concept of participatory sensing, whereby ordinary citizens can now contribute and share information from the urban environment. However, such applications introduce a key research challenge: preserving the location privacy of the individuals contributing data. In this paper, we propose the use of microaggregation, a concept used for protecting privacy in databases, as a solution to this problem. We compare microaggregation with tessellation, the current state-of-the-art, and demonstrate that each technique has its advantage in certain mutually exclusive situations. We propose a hybrid scheme called, Hybrid Variable-Size Maximum Distance to Average Vector (V-MDAV), which combines the positive aspects of both these techniques. Our evaluations based on real-world data traces show that hybrid V-MDAV improves the percentage of positive identifications made by the application server by up to 100% and decreases the information loss by about 40%. Furthermore, our studies show that perturbing user locations with random Gaussian noise can provide users with an extra layer of protection with very little impact on the system performance.","PeriodicalId":322416,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116065477","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":"Ubiquitous human motion capture using Wearable micro-sensors","authors":"Zhiqiang Zhang","doi":"10.1109/PERCOM.2009.4912807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOM.2009.4912807","url":null,"abstract":"We have presented our work in progress on Human Body Motion Capture using wearable mirco-inertial sensors only. Novel drift model are proposed to deal with inherent bias problem of inertial sensors, and Extended Dynamic Bayesian Network (EDBN) are employed to model the constraints among human body segments. Given the uncertainties of human movements, multiple models are proposed to describe the behaviors of each body segment in the EDBN. The future work will be on consummating our current work. More comprehensive experiments will be further studied to evaluate our proposed method.","PeriodicalId":322416,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129613507","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}
Raphael Zender, E. Dressler, U. Lucke, D. Tavangarian
{"title":"Pervasive media and messaging services for immersive learning experiences","authors":"Raphael Zender, E. Dressler, U. Lucke, D. Tavangarian","doi":"10.1109/PERCOM.2009.4912881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOM.2009.4912881","url":null,"abstract":"The public availability of virtual worlds, as for instance Second Life or the OpenSimulator, has introduced a new type of online learning, called “virtual learning”. Virtual learning is used to simulate face-to-face learning, to create new and innovative learning material and to interconnect distant learners. Unfortunately, the virtual environment is mostly exclusive and connections to other learning environments are rare stand-alone solutions with a lack of universal methologies. This paper depicts the benefit of “Immersive Learning” in the context of a systematic and flexible fusion of virtual learning and computer-aided face-to-face learning. This fusion leads to ad hoc learning scenarios, that are independent from time and location. They adapt to learners and environments with a seamless and transparent transition between both worlds. The fusion will be demonstrated and verified by an exemplary prototype implementation.","PeriodicalId":322416,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128417578","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}
Przemyslaw Blaskiewicz, Z. Golebiewski, M. Klonowski, Krzysztof Majcher
{"title":"RFID system with allowers","authors":"Przemyslaw Blaskiewicz, Z. Golebiewski, M. Klonowski, Krzysztof Majcher","doi":"10.1109/PERCOM.2009.4912898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOM.2009.4912898","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we introduce a new approach for RFID users' privacy protection that is in some sense complementary to well-known blocker tag due to Juels et al. The main idea behind our scheme is to add a special device called allower to a batch of tags in order to make reading RFID-tags possible. When the allower is switched-off reading is not possible. From the users' point of view functionality provided by the system is exactly the same - indeed one device must be activated/deactivated in order to make reading possible/to protect other tags from reading and protect privacy in hostile environment. We claim our approach to offer higher level of security in many situations and can be more usable, despite of some shortcomings we describe. In our paper we present techniques that realize our idea. We discuss also security and efficiency analysis. We also present some extensions of the basic scheme.","PeriodicalId":322416,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130313524","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":"Event driven service composition for pervasive computing","authors":"Sourish Dasgupta, Satish Bhat, Yugyung Lee","doi":"10.1109/PERCOM.2009.4912783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOM.2009.4912783","url":null,"abstract":"Pervasive Computing plays an integral role in our daily life. As pervasive services become increasingly important to be able to capture context, it is reasonable to speculate that dynamic representations for composition of services is very much needed. Such representations may typically include activities or functional modules that are not only temporal but also responsive to each other. Such actions may be associated with actors who execute them, spatial and temporal information, information-flow and background objects. Consequently, one may model an activity network that depicts causal relations between activities and has the capability of embedding the semantic relations of these activities with other contextual entities. In this paper we discuss a new way of representing such dynamic workflows with a novel data structure called Activity Logic Graphs (ALGs). We introduce a novel design of an architecture that grasps the semantics of activities (or events) in dynamic pervasive environments, maps that to a collaboration of services (as ALGs) in order to recognize specific situations (known as Situation Boundaries) that has risen out of the events, and implements the recognition process using an efficient indexing technique. We test the model with a set of ALGs and report experimental results on the queries that are essential for service composition.","PeriodicalId":322416,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123888091","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":"After motes and multihop: Mobile phones and the global mobile sensor network","authors":"A. Campbell","doi":"10.1109/PERCOM.2009.4912824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOM.2009.4912824","url":null,"abstract":"Technological advances in sensing, computation, storage, and communications will turn the ubiquitous mobile phone into a global mobile sensing device carried by billions of people world-wide. Sensing will be people- centric, enabling a different way to sense, learn, visualize, and share information about ourselves, friends, communities, the way we live, and the world we live in. People-centric sensing juxtaposes the traditional view of small-scale, mote-based sensor networks with one in which people, carrying sensor-enabled mobile phones, enable opportunistic sensing coverage - ultimately, leading to the dawn of a global mobile sensor network. In the MetroSense Project's vision of people-centric sensing, users are the key architectural system component, enabling a host of new application areas such as personal, public, and social sensing.","PeriodicalId":322416,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125609314","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}