Participant selection for data collection through device-to-device communications in mobile sensing

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• 作者：Yu Wang ; Hanshang Li ; Ting Li
• 关键词：Participant selection ; Data collection ; Device ; to ; device communication ; Mobile crowd sensing ; Mobile sensing
• 刊名：Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：21
• 期：1
• 页码：31-41
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• 刊物类别：Computer Science
• 刊物主题：User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Computer Science, general; Personal Computing; Mobile Computing;
• 出版者：Springer London
• ISSN：1617-4917
• 卷排序：21

文摘

The appearance of smart mobile devices with communication, computation and sensing capability and increasing popularity of various mobile applications have caused the explosion of mobile data recently. In the same time, mobile sensing has been emerging as a new sensing paradigm where vast numbers of mobile devices are used for sensing and collecting huge amounts of mobile data in cities. One of the challenges faced by mobile sensing is how to efficiently collect the huge amount of mobile data beyond the existing capacity of 4G networks. In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of collecting data packets from mobile devices through device-to-device communications by carefully selecting the subset of relaying (or/and sensing) devices. We formulate these problems as optimization problems and propose a set of solutions to solve them. Our experiments over a real-life mobile trace confirm the effectiveness of the proposed idea.