{"title":"Gradient Profiling for Pedestrian Services","authors":"Shubham Jain","doi":"10.1145/2752746.2752784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2752746.2752784","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile systems have long been the cause of distraction to pedestrians. Motivated by the safety challenges this distraction poses, we aim to develop a sensing technology based on smartphones and wearable devices, for fine-grained location classification in urban environments. Particularly, we are using shoe mounted inertial sensors to sense the ground a pedestrian is walking on. To begin with, it seeks to detect transitions from sidewalk locations to in-street locations. This can be used for warning a distracted pedestrian or alerting an oncoming vehicle to the presence of a pedestrian in street. In addition, it can also be used for precise sidewalk-level localization in dense urban environments.","PeriodicalId":325557,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2015 on MobiSys PhD Forum","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130379764","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":"Big Stream Cloud Architecture for the Internet of Things","authors":"Laura Belli","doi":"10.1145/2752746.2752789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2752746.2752789","url":null,"abstract":"The Internet of Things (IoT) will consist of billions of interconnected devices denoted as “Smart Objects:” (SOs) tiny, constrained devices which are going to be pervasively deployed in several contexts. The actors involved in IoT scenarios have extremely heterogeneous characteristics (in terms of processing and communication capabilities, energy supply and consumption, availability, and mobility), spanning from constrained SOs, to smartphones and other personal devices, Internet hosts, and the Cloud. SOs are typically equipped with sensors and/or actuators and are thus capable to perceive and act on the environment where they are deployed. By 2020, 50 billions of SOs are expected to be deployed in urban, home, industrial, and rural scenarios [3], in order to collect relevant information, which may be used to build new useful applications. In a typical IoT scenario, sensed data are collected by SOs, deployed in and populating the IoT network, and sent uplink to collection entities as the Cloud. With billions of nodes capable of gathering data and generating information, the availability of efficient and scalable mechanisms for collecting, processing, and storing data is crucial. Big Data techniques, which were developed in the last few years, address the need to process extremely large amounts of heterogeneous data for multiple purposes. These techniques have been designed mainly to deal with huge volumes of information (focusing on storage, aggregation, analysis, and provisioning of data), rather than to provide real-time processing and dispatching. One of the distinctive features of IoT systems is the deployment of a huge amount of heterogeneous data sources collecting data from the environment and sending information through the internet to collectors. The work of all data sources generate, as a whole, streams with a very high frequency. Moreover, several relevant IoT scenarios need real-time or predictable latency. The number of data sources, on one side, and the subsequent frequency of incoming data, on the other side, create a new need for Cloud architectures to handle such massive information flows. Big Data approaches typically have an intrinsic","PeriodicalId":325557,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2015 on MobiSys PhD Forum","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121588137","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":"Session details: Session 1: Pervasive Applications and Sensing","authors":"Chungkuk Yoo","doi":"10.1145/3251229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3251229","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":325557,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2015 on MobiSys PhD Forum","volume":"1998 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132476171","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":"Sensor-Cloud: Enabling Remote Health-Care services","authors":"S. Bhunia","doi":"10.1145/2752746.2752787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2752746.2752787","url":null,"abstract":"Developing nations lack proportionate health-care delivery solutions to serve huge population. Answer to this problem is provisioning remote health-care using information & communication technologies. Earlier, we proposed a Sensor-Cloud framework aiming at proper delivery of the health-care services. In my PhD, I investigate questions like how to integrate sensor paradigm with cloud, how to collect health data from wireless bio-medical sensors, how to manage patient mobility and what will be appropriate routing scheme within this framework.","PeriodicalId":325557,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2015 on MobiSys PhD Forum","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132538643","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":"Simplifying Cooperation with End Users","authors":"Nairan Zhang","doi":"10.1145/2752746.2752790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2752746.2752790","url":null,"abstract":"1. MOTIVATION Traditional virtual communities such as bulletin board system (BBS) and Internet forum have clearly shown the capability of networking strangers to share useful information. Such communities do not require people to report their physical locations even if the community and relevant topics are limited to a particular place. However, as the portable device (e.g., smartphones and tablets) becomes a main gateway to Internet, we have already noticed two significant changes on the location-transparent virtual communities. First, information exchanged now is combined with physical locations. Second, by directly using location information, people sharing similar interests can be recognized and self-organized. While conceptual applications based on above changes, such as participatory sensing and urban gaming, were also proposed recently, mobile system researchers should ask if technologies can accelerate the realization of such applications. This thesis explores this question by breaking emerged communities down to two organization models, and focusing on different pain points of each one. We now briefly describe the differences of two models in terms of the social motivation of forming a community and the network architecture of connecting members.","PeriodicalId":325557,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2015 on MobiSys PhD Forum","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134037922","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}