Title
RISC: Resource-Constrained Urban Sensing Task Scheduling Based on Commercial Fleets
Abstract
With the trend of vehicles becoming increasingly connected and potentially autonomous, vehicles are being equipped with rich sensing and communication devices. Various vehicular services based on shared real-time sensor data of vehicles from a fleet have been proposed to improve the urban efficiency, e.g., HD-live map, and traffic accident recovery. However, due to the high cost of data uploading (e.g., monthly fees for a cellular network), it would be impractical to make all well-equipped vehicles to upload real-time sensor data constantly. To better utilize these limited uploading resources and achieve an optimal road segment sensing coverage, we present a real-time sensing task scheduling framework, i.e., RISC, for Resource-Constraint modeling for urban sensing by scheduling sensing tasks of commercial vehicles with sensors based on the predictability of vehicles' mobility patterns. In particular, we utilize the commercial vehicles, including taxicabs, buses, and logistics trucks as mobile sensors to sense urban phenomena, e.g., traffic, by using the equipped vehicular sensors, e.g., dash-cam, lidar, automotive radar, etc. We implement RISC on a Chinese city Shenzhen with one-month real-world data from (i) a taxi fleet with 14 thousand vehicles; (ii) a bus fleet with 13 thousand vehicles; (iii) a truck fleet with 4 thousand vehicles. Further, we design an application, i.e., track suspect vehicles (e.g., hit-and-run vehicles), to evaluate the performance of RISC on the urban sensing aspect based on the data from a regular vehicle (i.e., personal car) fleet with 11 thousand vehicles. The evaluation results show that compared to the state-of-the-art solutions, we improved sensing coverage (i.e., the number of road segments covered by sensing vehicles) by 10% on average.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3397337
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Heterogeneous Fleets,Mobility Patterns,Vehicle Sensing
Journal
4
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
2474-9567
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
30
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaoyang Xie1152.83
Zhihan Fang2517.77
Yang Wang318845.73
Fan Zhang410110.18
Desheng Zhang535645.96