Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
1-2018
Abstract
We espouse the vision of a smart object/campus architecture where sensors attached to smart objects use BLE as communication interface, and where smartphones act as opportunistic relays to transfer the data. We explore the feasibility of the vision with real-world Wi-Fi based location traces from our university campus. Our feasibility studies establish that redundancy exists in user movement within the indoor spaces, and that this redundancy can be exploited for collecting sensor data in an opportunistic, yet fair manner. We develop a couple of alternative heuristics that address the BLE energy asymmetry challenge by intelligently duty-cycling the scanning actions of individual devices. We evaluate the efficacy and tradeoffs of the proposed approaches by simulation experiments with real-world location traces.
Keywords
Communication interface, Feasibility studies, Individual devices, Opportunistic relays, Smart monitoring, Smart objects, University campus, User movement
Discipline
Databases and Information Systems | Software Engineering
Research Areas
Software and Cyber-Physical Systems
Publication
2018 10th International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks (COMSNETS): Bengaluru, India, January 3-7: Proceedings
First Page
312
Last Page
319
ISBN
9781538611821
Identifier
10.1109/COMSNETS.2018.8328213
Publisher
IEEE
City or Country
Piscataway, NJ
Citation
RADHAKRISHNAN, Meeralakshmi; SEN, Sougata; MISRA, Archan; LEE, Youngki; and BALAN, Rajesh Krishna.
Smart monitoring via participatory BLE relaying. (2018). 2018 10th International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks (COMSNETS): Bengaluru, India, January 3-7: Proceedings. 312-319.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4056
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Authors
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2018.8328213