Title
GeoServ: A Distributed Urban Sensing Platform
Abstract
Urban sensing where mobile users continuously gather, process, and share location-sensitive sensor data (e.g., street images, road condition, traffic flow) is emerging as a new network paradigm of sensor information sharing in urban environments. The key enablers are the smart phones (e.g., iPhones and Android phones) equipped with onboard sensors (e.g., cameras, accelerometer, compass, GPS), and various wireless devices (e.g., WiFi and 2/3G). The goal of this paper is to design a scalable sensor networking platform where millions of users on the move can participate in urban sensing and share location-aware information using always-on cellular data connections. We propose a two-tier sensor networking platform called GeoServ where mobile users publish/access sensor data via an Internet-based distributed P2P overlay network. The main contribution of this paper is two-fold: a location-aware sensor data retrieval scheme that supports geographic range queries, and a location-aware publish-subscribe scheme that enables efficient multicast routing over a group of subscribed users. We prove that GeoServ protocols preserve locality and validate their performance via extensive simulations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/CCGrid.2011.10
CCGrid
Keywords
Field
DocType
always-on cellular data connection,scalable sensor networking platform,sensor information sharing,mobile user,share location-sensitive sensor data,access sensor data,onboard sensor,urban sensing platform,location-aware publish-subscribe scheme,two-tier sensor networking platform,location-aware sensor data retrieval,information retrieval,internet,cartography,routing,servers,mobile computing,wireless sensor networks,mobile communication,overlay network,publish subscribe,data processing,p2p,data gathering,data retrieval,sensors,data acquisition
Mobile computing,Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Android (operating system),Computer science,Visual sensor network,Computer network,Multicast,Wireless sensor network,Overlay network,The Internet
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.68
28
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jong Hoon Ahnn1485.16
Uichin Lee22029125.51
Hyun Jin Moon331114.28