scholarly journals A Perfect Match: Deep Learning Towards Enhanced Data Trustworthiness in Crowd-Sensing Systems

Author(s):  
Sam Afzal-Houshmand ◽  
Sajad Homayoun ◽  
Thanassis Giannetsos
2022 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Tu N. Nguyen ◽  
Sherali Zeadally

Conventional data collection methods that use Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) suffer from disadvantages such as deployment location limitation, geographical distance, as well as high construction and deployment costs of WSNs. Recently, various efforts have been promoting mobile crowd-sensing (such as a community with people using mobile devices) as a way to collect data based on existing resources. A Mobile Crowd-Sensing System can be considered as a Cyber-Physical System (CPS), because it allows people with mobile devices to collect and supply data to CPSs’ centers. In practical mobile crowd-sensing applications, due to limited budgets for the different expenditure categories in the system, it is necessary to minimize the collection of redundant information to save more resources for the investor. We study the problem of selecting participants in Mobile Crowd-Sensing Systems without redundant information such that the number of users is minimized and the number of records (events) reported by users is maximized, also known as the Participant-Report-Incident Redundant Avoidance (PRIRA) problem. We propose a new approximation algorithm, called the Maximum-Participant-Report Algorithm (MPRA) to solve the PRIRA problem. Through rigorous theoretical analysis and experimentation, we demonstrate that our proposed method performs well within reasonable bounds of computational complexity.


2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 1045-1057 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Du ◽  
Yu-E Sun ◽  
He Huang ◽  
Liusheng Huang ◽  
Hongli Xu ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenglin Miao ◽  
Wenjun Jiang ◽  
Lu Su ◽  
Yaliang Li ◽  
Suxin Guo ◽  
...  

IEEE Access ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 1382-1397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam Pouryazdan ◽  
Burak Kantarci ◽  
Tolga Soyata ◽  
Luca Foschini ◽  
Houbing Song

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Taochun Wang ◽  
Chengmei Lv ◽  
Chengtian Wang ◽  
Fulong Chen ◽  
Yonglong Luo

With the rapid development of portable mobile devices, mobile crowd sensing systems (MCS) have been widely studied. However, the sensing data provided by participants in MCS applications is always unreliable, which affects the service quality of the system, and the truth discovery technology can effectively obtain true values from the data provided by multiple users. At the same time, privacy leaks also restrict users’ enthusiasm for participating in the MCS. Based on this, our paper proposes a secure truth discovery for data aggregation in crowd sensing systems, STDDA, which iteratively calculates user weights and true values to obtain real object data. In order to protect the privacy of data, STDDA divides users into several clusters, and users in the clusters ensure the privacy of data by adding secret random numbers to the perceived data. At the same time, the cluster head node uses the secure sum protocol to obtain the aggregation result of the sense data and uploads it to the server so that the server cannot obtain the sense data and weight of individual users, further ensuring the privacy of the user’s sense data and weight. In addition, using the truth discovery method, STDDA provides corresponding processing mechanisms for users’ dynamic joining and exiting, which enhances the robustness of the system. Experimental results show that STDDA has the characteristics of high accuracy, low communication, and high security.


Micromachines ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 1055
Author(s):  
Muhammad Asad Bilal Fayyaz ◽  
Christopher Johnson

Multiple projects within the rail industry across different regions have been initiated to address the issue of over-population. These expansion plans and upgrade of technologies increases the number of intersections, junctions, and level crossings. A level crossing is where a railway line is crossed by a road or right of way on the level without the use of a tunnel or bridge. Level crossings still pose a significant risk to the public, which often leads to serious accidents between rail, road, and footpath users and the risk is dependent on their unpredictable behavior. For Great Britain, there were three fatalities and 385 near misses at level crossings in 2015–2016. Furthermore, in its annual safety report, the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) highlighted the risk of incidents at level crossings during 2016/17 with a further six fatalities at level crossings including four pedestrians and two road vehicles. The relevant authorities have suggested an upgrade of the existing sensing system and the integration of new novel technology at level crossings. The present work addresses this key issue and discusses the current sensing systems along with the relevant algorithms used for post-processing the information. The given information is adequate for a manual operator to make a decision or start an automated operational cycle. Traditional sensors have certain limitations and are often installed as a “single sensor”. The single sensor does not provide sufficient information; hence another sensor is required. The algorithms integrated with these sensing systems rely on the traditional approach, where background pixels are compared with new pixels. Such an approach is not effective in a dynamic and complex environment. The proposed model integrates deep learning technology with the current Vision system (e.g., CCTV to detect and localize an object at a level crossing). The proposed sensing system should be able to detect and localize particular objects (e.g., pedestrians, bicycles, and vehicles at level crossing areas.) The radar system is also discussed for a “two out of two” logic interlocking system in case of fail-mechanism. Different techniques to train a deep learning model are discussed along with their respective results. The model achieved an accuracy of about 88% from the MobileNet model for classification and a loss metric of 0.092 for object detection. Some related future work is also discussed.


Author(s):  
Kaiping Xue ◽  
Bin Zhu ◽  
Qingyou Yang ◽  
Na Gai ◽  
David S.L. Wei ◽  
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