Title
Efficient data collection in multimedia vehicular sensing platforms.
Abstract
Vehicles provide an ideal platform for urban sensing applications, as they can be equipped with all kinds of sensing devices that can continuously monitor the environment around the travelling vehicle. In this work we are particularly concerned with the use of vehicles as building blocks of a multimedia mobile sensor system able to capture camera snapshots of the streets to support traffic monitoring and urban surveillance tasks. However, cameras are high data-rate sensors while wireless infrastructures used for vehicular communications may face performance constraints. Thus, data redundancy mitigation is of paramount importance in such systems. To address this issue in this paper we exploit submodular optimisation techniques to design efficient and robust data collection schemes for multimedia vehicular sensor networks. We also explore an alternative approach for data collection that operates on longer time scales and relies only on localised decisions rather than centralised computations. We use network simulations with realistic vehicular mobility patterns to verify the performance gains of our proposed schemes compared to a baseline solution that ignores data redundancy. Simulation results show that our data collection techniques can ensure a more accurate coverage of the road network while significantly reducing the amount of transferred data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.pmcj.2014.05.003
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Vehicular sensor networks,Urban surveillance,Submodular optimisation,Performance evaluation
Journal
16
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
PA
1574-1192
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.56
19
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Raffaele Bruno1123290.09
Maddalena Nurchis2685.75