{"title":"Poster: Time Analysis of the Feasibility of Vehicular Blocktrees","authors":"Joshua Joy, Gregory Cusack, M. Gerla","doi":"10.1145/3127502.3127516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3127502.3127516","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we evaluate the feasibility of the vehicular blocktree proposed by Joy whereby vehicles write and aggregate their signatures to a blockchain. We analyze the end to end cycle time to collect, write, and persist the content to the blockchain as well as the total minting time. We show via time analysis that the cycle time occurs on the order of hundreds of milliseconds, showing that the proposed design is indeed feasible.","PeriodicalId":410660,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Experiences with the Design and Implementation of Smart Objects","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130899677","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":"SCARF: A SoCial-Aware Reliable Forwarding Technique for Vehicular Communications","authors":"A. Vegni, V. Loscrí, Riccardo Petrolo","doi":"10.1145/3127502.3127512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3127502.3127512","url":null,"abstract":"The Internet-of-Vehicles allows the coexistence of traditional Internet applications with the Internet-of-Things, so that vehicles can communicate not only among them but also to neighboring devices and humans as well. In this context, the human social behavior is a fundamental aspect that needs to be taken into account specially for message dissemination in Vehicular Social Networks. In this paper, we present a probabilistic broadcast protocol that exploits the \"social degree\" of a vehicle to be selected as next-hop forwarder. The social degree of a vehicle depends on its social activity inside a vehicular social network, so that a vehicle that uses to access and post often in a given vehicular social network is more likely to be \"socially trusted\". Selecting a trusted vehicle as next-hop forwarder allows a secure and faster message dissemination with respect to an \"asocial\" vehicle. Simulation results show that a socially trusted vehicle improves network performance, expressed in terms of overall throughput.","PeriodicalId":410660,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Experiences with the Design and Implementation of Smart Objects","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121070374","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":"Virtual Cellular ISPs","authors":"Talal Ahmad, L. Subramanian","doi":"10.1145/3127502.3127515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3127502.3127515","url":null,"abstract":"Achieving reliable cellular connectivity in rural areas is a challenge for several reasons: lack of economic incentives for telecom providers; high deployment and maintenance costs; low purchasing power; poor and unreliable power infrastructures; poor backhaul support; and lack of ground expertise. This paper proposes the design, implementation and deployment of the Virtual Cellular ISPs (VC-ISP), a ground-up cellular network architecture that enables third-party vendors to offer cellular coverage and mobile services to rural areas in an extensible manner. Unlike conventional monolithic cellular network architecture, the VC-ISP model enables a distributed (and potentially disjointed) collection of open, programmable cellular base stations to communicate using a novel intermittency-aware naming and addressing mechanism. This system enables VC-ISPs to provide reliable service with graceful recovery from failures under harsh network conditions. VC-ISP offers support for deploying local applications. Here, we demonstrate the technical viability of the VC-ISP model using a real-world 3-node VC-ISP deployment, including installation of a solar-powered cell tower in rural Ghana and additional emulation experiments in controlled environments.","PeriodicalId":410660,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Experiences with the Design and Implementation of Smart Objects","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116114312","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":"Managing IoT at the Edge: The Case for BLE Beacons","authors":"M. Haus, A. Ding, J. Ott","doi":"10.1145/3127502.3127510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3127502.3127510","url":null,"abstract":"Managing IoT devices in urban areas is becoming crucial because the majority of people living in cities and the number of deployed IoT devices are steadily increasing. In this paper we present iConfig, an edge-driven platform dedicated to manage IoT devices in smart cities. The goal is to address three major issues in current IoT management: registration, configuration, and maintenance. The core of iConfig is its programmable edge module, which can be deployed across smartphones, wearables, and smart boards to configure and interact with physically proximate IoT devices. Through testbed experiments and usability studies, we reveal the hardship and hidden pitfalls in managing IoT devices, especially for low budget devices like Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons. Our system evaluation shows that iConfig can effectively address the aforementioned IoT management challenges by harnessing the mobile and edge cooperation. To inspire community contributions, we further present concrete use cases to illustrate how iConfig can reduce operational cost and facilitate future edge-centric IoT research.","PeriodicalId":410660,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Experiences with the Design and Implementation of Smart Objects","volume":"2016 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121570908","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":"Collaborative Cognitive Content Dissemination and Query in Heterogeneous Mobile Opportunistic Networks","authors":"M. Radenkovic, Vu San Ha Huynh","doi":"10.1145/3127502.3127513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3127502.3127513","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates complex challenges of opportunistic discovery of content stored in remote mobile devices and delivery to the requesting nodes in heterogeneous mobile disconnection prone environments. We propose new latency aware collaborative cognitive caching approach suitable for content dissemination and query in heterogeneous opportunistic mobile networks and dynamic workloads. Utilising fully localised and ego networks multi-layer predictive heuristics about dynamically changing topology, dynamic resources and varying popularity content, our cognitive caching achieves high success ratio, low delays and high caching efficiency for very different real world dynamically changing mobile topologies.","PeriodicalId":410660,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Experiences with the Design and Implementation of Smart Objects","volume":"130 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124955033","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":"Distributed Data Collection Control in Opportunistic Mobile Crowdsensing","authors":"Federico Montori, L. Bedogni, L. Bononi","doi":"10.1145/3127502.3127509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3127502.3127509","url":null,"abstract":"Many researchers have nowadays shown a paramount interest in the rising field of Mobile Crowdsensing (MCS). Such paradigm is considered an easy and cost-effective choice for observing phenomena of common interest within the scope of Smart Cities and environmental monitoring. Nevertheless, it brings along many issues, such as fostering participation, reducing the power consumption of end devices and granting coverage. In this paper we focus on the problem of data collection control, which aims to avoid data redundancy and useless power consuming data transfers while assuring a sufficient number of observations for the purpose of coverage. In particular, we design a probabilistic distributed algorithm that aims to achieve a total per-zone number of observations close to a defined amount, while maximizing the fairness among users. We provide both the analytical definition of our algorithm and the performance evaluation through extensive simulations, establishing our algorithm as a good baseline for a poorly investigated problem.","PeriodicalId":410660,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Experiences with the Design and Implementation of Smart Objects","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127677903","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: Poster","authors":"Pietro Manzoni","doi":"10.1145/3257339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3257339","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":410660,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Experiences with the Design and Implementation of Smart Objects","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124436368","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":"The Hive: An Edge-based Middleware Solution for Resource Sharing in the Internet of Things","authors":"A. Essameldin, Khaled A. Harras","doi":"10.1145/3127502.3127508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3127502.3127508","url":null,"abstract":"With today's unprecedented proliferation in smart-devices, the Internet of Things Vision has become more of a reality than ever. With the extreme diversity of applications running on these heterogeneous devices, numerous middle-ware solutions have consequently emerged to address IoT-related challenges. These solutions however, heavily rely on the cloud for better data management, integration, and processing. This might potentially compromise privacy, add latency, and place unbearable traffic load. In this paper, we propose The Hive, an edge-based middleware architecture and protocol, that enables heterogeneous edge devices to dynamically share data and resources for enhanced application performance and privacy. We implement a prototype of the Hive, test it for basic robustness, show its modularity, and evaluate its performance with a real world smart emotion recognition application running on edge devices.","PeriodicalId":410660,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Experiences with the Design and Implementation of Smart Objects","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125650215","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 2","authors":"Pietro Manzoni","doi":"10.1145/3257340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3257340","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":410660,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Experiences with the Design and Implementation of Smart Objects","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116932255","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}
N. Jovalekic, E. Pietrosemoli, Marco Rainone, M. Zennaro
{"title":"Smart and Very Distant Objects","authors":"N. Jovalekic, E. Pietrosemoli, Marco Rainone, M. Zennaro","doi":"10.1145/3127502.3127514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3127502.3127514","url":null,"abstract":"This work addresses the feasibility of extreme long distance links based on LoRa technology. We developed a specialized low-cost and highly sensitive hardware based on the LoRa chipset and deployed it in a 316km long link. Received signal strength, signal to noise ratio, and packet reception rate were measured at two different frequency bands: 434MHz and 868MHz. Results clearly show that the link is feasible at both frequencies even with omni directional antennas. In addition, we provide details on the planning of the experiments, as well as procedure employed to find the suitable test bed for such a long distance link. These types of wireless systems are quite useful for disaster mitigation applications in sparsely populated areas.","PeriodicalId":410660,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Experiences with the Design and Implementation of Smart Objects","volume":"40 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129141991","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}