{"title":"Spectrum Access Quality for Mobile Broadband Video Communications in Smart Cities","authors":"O. Issa, Wei Li, Hong Liu","doi":"10.1145/2815347.2815359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2815347.2815359","url":null,"abstract":"Cities use broadband wireless spectrum access technologies to enable a wide range of smart city applications that enhance safety and security, improve efficiency of municipal services and promote a better quality of life for residents and visitors. The most quality and bandwidth-demanding smart city scenarios usually involve video communications. New compression technologies have made the delivery of high-resolution video over access networks a reality. However, video delivery must take into account network characteristics in different environmental conditions. This paper studies the possibility of providing high resolution video in mobile environments over the downlink and uplink of a broadband wireless access network, without compromising the video quality. The downlink scenario typically corresponds to offering multicast/unicast video to mobile residents and visitors, whereas the uplink scenario can be for video surveillance for public safety and electronic news gathering. For this study, measurements were obtained using professional video streaming equipment, on a commercially available broadband wireless access system in a typical emulated mobile environment. Analysis was done for different video settings and spectrum and network configurations in order to characterize network performance and assess video quality in different conditions. A key outcome of this analysis was to determine the feasibility of high resolution video delivery over broadband wireless access networks in mobile conditions and to point recommendations for the QoE optimization of mobile video reception. A good quality of experience is possible provided that system and environment limitations are respected.","PeriodicalId":329392,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th ACM Symposium on Development and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116972153","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":"Scalable Transportation Monitoring using the Smartphone Road Monitoring (SRoM) System","authors":"Sam Aleyadeh, Sharief M. A. Oteafy, H. Hassanein","doi":"10.1145/2815347.2815349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2815347.2815349","url":null,"abstract":"Our quest for ubiquitous Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) is simply infeasible over proprietary systems. In a time of abundant smart devices, it is impractical to consider developing competing proprietary monitoring systems to collect information for ITS operation. We argue for utilizing smartphones to present a driver and road monitoring system capable of scaling to the number of drivers without incurring high implementation costs, thus allowing for safer driving conditions and shorter accident response times. We propose the Smartphone Road Monitoring (SRoM) system that is capable of sensing road artifacts such as potholes and slippery roads. The information is collected through crowdsourcing and processed by base stations, giving faster and more accurate responses compared to current systems, to address road safety related events in a timely manner. It is also capable of detecting aberrant driver behavior such as speeding and drifting. SRoM uses both the driver's smartphone and vehicle as sources of information, and allows pedestrians to share media pertaining to each event. The collected data is made available to the public through an interactive map updated with the authenticated events. We implemented a prototype of the system to perform the task of safety monitoring. System evaluation of the prototype shows that the system can be easily implemented in real-life using current technologies at little cost.","PeriodicalId":329392,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th ACM Symposium on Development and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications","volume":"156 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116102154","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}
James Conway-Beaulieu, Austin Athaide, Roozbeh Jalali, K. El-Khatib
{"title":"Smartphone-based Architecture for Smart Cities","authors":"James Conway-Beaulieu, Austin Athaide, Roozbeh Jalali, K. El-Khatib","doi":"10.1145/2815347.2826698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2815347.2826698","url":null,"abstract":"Urban areas now account for more than half of the world's population, with the United Nations (UN) forecasting that by 2050 this number is expected to rise up to 70 percent as a result of urban growth and migration from rural areas. Increasing population density in urban environments demands adequate provision of services and infrastructure, In addition to other major challenges including air pollution, traffic congestion, health concerns, energy and waste management. Smart cities promise to leverage advances in information and communication technology to improve the quality of life for their residents in a number of ways. There are numerous applications for smart cities but the costs associated with some of the sensors used are limiting the growth of smart city technologies. Today smartphones include powerful sensors which can be accessed through customizable applications. This paper present an architecture for using sensory data generated by smartphones in order to improve the public transportation systems. The architecture provide transit officials a real time view of user demand for their systems, accounting capabilities for each bus stop, and unparalleled planning capability for additional bus routes.","PeriodicalId":329392,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th ACM Symposium on Development and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128617081","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":"Cooperative Spectrum Sensing with Trust Assistance for Cognitive Radio Vehicular Ad hoc Networks","authors":"Zhexiong Wei, F. Yu, A. Boukerche","doi":"10.1145/2815347.2815350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2815347.2815350","url":null,"abstract":"As Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) attract a lot of research attention, VANETs with Cognitive Radio (CR-VANETs) are also studied as supplement and enhancement of VANETs, which are used to solve the issues of spectrum shortage in VANETs. With this CR technology, VANETs can satisfy more bandwidth demanding for amounts of applications based on communication between vehicles. Cooperative spectrum sensing is naturally suitable for CR-VANETs due to its autonomous characteristic. Cooperative spectrum sensing opens a door for malicious attacks in spectrum sensing. It assumes that every vehicle in the network is always honest and benign. However, the security attacks exist in all kinds of networks. Thus, solving this security issue becomes critical for CR-VANETs, which are using cooperative spectrum sensing. In this paper, a distributed cooperative spectrum sensing scheme is proposed to solve the security issue in CR-VANETs. In this scheme, a weighted consensus-based spectrum sensing algorithm with trust assistance is used to protect the spectrum sensing process in a hostile CR-VANET. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is validated by extensive simulations.","PeriodicalId":329392,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th ACM Symposium on Development and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130322237","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 Efficient Vehicle Classification in Intelligent Transportation Systems","authors":"Abdul Jabbar Siddiqui, A. Mammeri, A. Boukerche","doi":"10.1145/2815347.2815354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2815347.2815354","url":null,"abstract":"The classification of vehicles is an important task in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) for applications such as analyzing traffic, checking for fraud, tracking targets, and other security applications. In the recent years, automated systems to recognize makes and models of oncoming vehicles are gaining attention, utilizing existing infrastructure of traffic cameras. To this end, we present an unexplored approach for vehicle make and model recognition (VMMR) and demonstrate its highly accurate and real-time performance, using a recently published real-world dataset. The encouraging results of our approach pave the way towards efficient large-scale and distributed vehicular surveillance in ITS.","PeriodicalId":329392,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th ACM Symposium on Development and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121620416","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":"OnlineCruise: An Online Social Grouping Strategy for Vehicular Social Networks","authors":"S. Maaroufi, S. Pierre","doi":"10.1145/2815347.2815360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2815347.2815360","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present OnlineCruise, an online social grouping strategy for vehicular social networks. OnlineCruise aims at building vehicular social groups for different user-oriented services. It relies on an online publish/subscribe grouping strategy that is based on an efficient and reliable scoped multicasting service (SMS). We evaluate OnlineCruise's performance in terms of efficiency and reliability and show that it improves other approaches by 25% depending on settings.","PeriodicalId":329392,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th ACM Symposium on Development and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122601343","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":"On the Provisioning of Vehicle-Based Public Sensing Services","authors":"Sherin Abdel Hamid, H. Hassanein, G. Takahara","doi":"10.1145/2815347.2815348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2815347.2815348","url":null,"abstract":"Thanks to their abundant on-board resources, ubiquity, and mobility, smart vehicles can be considered major candidates for providing pervasive information services. With the diversity of in-vehicle sensors along with abundant storage, processing, and communication capabilities, smart vehicles can bring a wide scope of applications into action under the public sensing paradigm outstripping other candidate mobile resources such as smartphones. In this paper, we propose the vehicular public sensing (VPS) platform that aims at utilizing the abundant resources of smart vehicles for providing ubiquitous public sensing services. The VPS platform encompasses underlying components that address the recruitment, communication, sensing, reporting, and data analytics functionalities of a typical public sensing process. Taking into account different environmental and practical setups, the VPS platform provides potential adjustments and different approaches for the operation of each component. We anticipate that by engaging smart vehicles in providing ubiquitous sensing-based services, a plethora of information services and applications will be unleashed bringing a new era of service provisioning.","PeriodicalId":329392,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th ACM Symposium on Development and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124189093","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":"An Efficient Pseudonym Change Protocol Based on Trusted Neighbours for Privacy and Anonymity in VANETs","authors":"Kahina Moghraoui, B. A. Bensaber","doi":"10.1145/2815347.2815355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2815347.2815355","url":null,"abstract":"In vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), regular changes in private communication pseudonyms are important to avoid illegal tracking of vehicles and to ensure their anonymity. In this paper, we propose a pseudonym change protocol based on the detection of trusted neighbors. In the absence of the latter, we opted for the attribution of a lifetime to pseudonyms. This protocol triggers the pseudonym change in several vehicles at the same time, a solution that improves vehicles anonymity. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of our protocol and compare our work to that based on a triggering system that changes pseudonyms with individual behavior after a limited lifetime.","PeriodicalId":329392,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th ACM Symposium on Development and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124563496","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. Bedogni, L. Bononi, M. D. Felice, A. D'Elia, T. S. Cinotti
{"title":"WhatIF Application: Moving Electrically without an Electric Vehicle","authors":"L. Bedogni, L. Bononi, M. D. Felice, A. D'Elia, T. S. Cinotti","doi":"10.1145/2815347.2818725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2815347.2818725","url":null,"abstract":"According to several recent studies, the overhead caused by charging operations to the users' daily activities constitutes one of the main issues discouraging the purchasing of an Electric Vehicle (EV). At present, multiple factors contribute to such overhead, including the limited EV range, the duration of the charging phase, and the non-uniform coverage of the Equipment Vehicle Service Stations (EVSSs) in most areas of the world. Although the situation is going to improve in the long term thanks to the technological advances of the EVs and of the charging infrastructures, ICT-based solutions are needed to minimize the overhead in the short term. To this aim, in this paper we propose the WhatIF application, a software that allows the planning and simulation of EV-related scenarios. Through a mobile client, the users of our system can register their daily journeys, including driving activities and planned stops. A back-end module allows verifying the feasibility of a journey with an EV, scheduling the (eventual) recharging operations during the planned stops. A feasibility energy-optimal algorithm minimizing the overall charged energy is proposed. The performance of the WhatIF application has been tested over a large-scale simulated EV scenario (i.e. the Italian Emilia-Romagna region), considering realistic road topology, EVSSs locations, EV battery models and mobility patterns. Simulation results indicate that 76% of the EVs are able to complete their journeys when scheduling charging operations during the stops, hence confirming the effectiveness of the WhatIF application in mitigating the overhead of EV mobility.","PeriodicalId":329392,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th ACM Symposium on Development and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122465162","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":"HCI in VANET IR-CAS: Multimodal Interface for VANET Context Aware IR Systems","authors":"L. Nassar, Parmit K. Chilana, M. Kamel, F. Karray","doi":"10.1145/2815347.2830325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2815347.2830325","url":null,"abstract":"We propose VANET IR-CAS visual-manual and speech-visual dual-mode interface. It improves safety by reducing eye-off road time; compared to two other designs, it has the least eye off road time with < 2 seconds longest eye off road glance. It highly increases convenience and speed of option selection by using large image icons aligned to screen borders or pinned to corners which facilitates options blind selection useful in emergencies or under risky conditions; 95% of usability tests users successfully selected interface options blindly. The speech-visual version proved to be the least distracting with an average of 0.4 seconds longest eye off road glance which is at least five times faster than the second fastest design; the IR-CAS visual-manual version. The interface options adapt to user profiles. Users visually view received services matching their interest and context ordered by relevance. It provides fast access to the continuously updated congestion/crash notifications.","PeriodicalId":329392,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th ACM Symposium on Development and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117242386","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}