Smartphone-based crowdsourcing for network monitoring: Opportunities, challenges, and a case study

Faggiani, Adriano; Gregori, Enrico; Lenzini, Luciano; Luconi, Valerio; Vecchio, Alessio

doi:10.1109/mcom.2014.6710071

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“…Centralized collection of these measurements is realized with a web service, responsible to process and store the data on a spatial database, imitating the role of the MDT server. One could find some similarities of this MDT-driven part of the proposed architecture with the smart-phone based crowd-sourcing procedures discussed in [7]. Independently, of the adopted MDT architecture both approaches require the user's consent in order to collect data from its device.…”

Section: Architecturementioning

confidence: 97%

“…While motivating users to participate in such processes is of paramount importance, as success strongly depends on their volunteer contribution, such issues remains beyond the scope of this article. However, this architecture goes beyond the data collection process discussed in [7] since it deals with the automatic post-processing of the collected data and the meaningful visualization of the extracted features. According to the proposed architecture, one has the ability to make spatio-temporal queries to the MDT database via a web application.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Automate Minimization of Drive Tests for QoE Provisioning: The Case of Coverage Mapping

Dalakas¹

2015

IJCA

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The concept of Minimization of Drive Tests (MDT) has been developed in Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) specifications standard. With MDT, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) were enabled to remotely collect measurements indicating the network Quality of Service (QoS), as experienced by their users, correlated with actual location information. This results in wider application of use cases that allows network monitoring and optimization, without the need for conventional drive tests. To facilitate access to distributed geospatial data through a set of policies, common rules, and standards that would improve interoperability, this paper, proposes an open architecture, in compliance with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web services and the MDT architectures, enabling the automation of the MDT use cases and real-time service management. General TermsService management, location-based services, geospatial web services Keywords Cellular radio coverage, quality of experience, quality of service

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Section: Architecturementioning

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Section: Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

Automate Minimization of Drive Tests for QoE Provisioning: The Case of Coverage Mapping

Dalakas¹

2015

IJCA

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“…Recently, a lot of works have been focusing on this topic. For instance, [4,7,15,29] analyzed the privacypreserving and integrity of transmitted data. The paper [14] discussed the establishment of trust relationships in crowdsourcing-based systems.…”

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SCPR: Secure Crowdsourcing-Based Parking Reservation System

Wan

Zhang

Huang

2017

Security and Communication Networks

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The crowdsourcing-based parking reservation system is a new computing paradigm, where private owners can rent their parking spots out. Security is the main concern for parking reservation systems. However, current schemes cannot provide user privacy protection for drivers and have no key agreement functions, resulting in a lot of security problems. Moreover, current schemes are typically based on the time-consuming bilinear pairing and not suitable for real-time applications. To solve these security and efficiency problems, we present a novel security protocol with user privacy called SCPR. Similar to protocols of this field, SCPR can authenticate drivers involved in the parking reservation system. However, different from other well-known approaches, SCPR uses pseudonyms instead of real identities for providing user privacy protection for drivers and designs a novel pseudonym-based key agreement protocol. Finally, to reduce the time cost, SCPR designs several novel cryptographic algorithms based on the algebraic signature technique. By doing so, SCPR can satisfy a number of security requirements and enjoy high efficiency. Experimental results show SCPR is feasible for real world applications.

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“…Similarly, in order to solve problem (17) in a distributed way, we define the dual function as the maximum value of (18) over , s:…”

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“…With the unprecedentedly powerful mobile cloud, mobile crowdsourcing has been gaining momentum as a viable platform for solving very large-scale problems with the help of the masses [17][18][19]. By outsourcing computation tasks to the crowd, costeffective and pervasive computing services can be achieved at a societal scale, using a possibly large number of mobile devices to collaborate together in a distributed way.…”

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Optimal Computing Resource Management Based on Utility Maximization in Mobile Crowdsourcing

Meng

Zhu

Deng

2017

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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Mobile crowdsourcing, as an emerging service paradigm, enables the computing resource requestor (CRR) to outsource computation tasks to each computing resource provider (CRP). Considering the importance of pricing as an essential incentive to coordinate the real-time interaction among the CRR and CRPs, in this paper, we propose an optimal real-time pricing strategy for computing resource management in mobile crowdsourcing. Firstly, we analytically model the CRR and CRPs behaviors in form of carefully selected utility and cost functions, based on concepts from microeconomics. Secondly, we propose a distributed algorithm through the exchange of control messages, which contain the information of computing resource demand/supply and real-time prices. We show that there exist real-time prices that can align individual optimality with systematic optimality. Finally, we also take account of the interaction among CRPs and formulate the computing resource management as a game with Nash equilibrium achievable via best response. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed distributed algorithm can potentially benefit both the CRR and CRPs. The coordinator in mobile crowdsourcing can thus use the optimal real-time pricing strategy to manage computing resources towards the benefit of the overall system.

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Smartphone-based crowdsourcing for network monitoring: Opportunities, challenges, and a case study

Cited by 83 publications

References 12 publications

Automate Minimization of Drive Tests for QoE Provisioning: The Case of Coverage Mapping

Automate Minimization of Drive Tests for QoE Provisioning: The Case of Coverage Mapping

SCPR: Secure Crowdsourcing-Based Parking Reservation System

Optimal Computing Resource Management Based on Utility Maximization in Mobile Crowdsourcing

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