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Mobile crowdsensing with mobile agents

Authors: Teemu Leppänen, José Álvarez Lacasia, Yoshito Tobe, Kaoru Sezaki, Jukka Riekki

Published in: Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems | Issue 1/2017

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We introduce mobile agents for mobile crowdsensing. Crowdsensing campaigns are designed through different roles that are implemented as mobile agents. The role-based tasks of mobile agents include collecting data, analyzing data and sharing data in the campaign. Mobile agents execute and control the campaign autonomously as a multi-agent system and migrate in the opportunistic network of participants’ devices. Mobile agents take into account the available resources in the devices and match participants’ privacy requirements to the campaign requirements. Sharing of task results in real-time facilitates cooperation towards the campaign goal while maintaining a selected global measure, such as energy efficiency. We discuss current challenges in crowdsensing and propose mobile agent based solutions for campaign execution and monitoring, addressing data collection and participant-related issues. We present a software framework for mobile agents-based crowdsensing that is seamlessly integrated into the Web. A set of simulations are conducted to compare mobile agent-based campaigns with existing crowdsensing approaches. We implemented and evaluated a small-scale real-world mobile agent based campaign for pedestrian flock detection. The simulation and evaluation results show that mobile agent based campaigns produce comparable results with less energy consumption when the number of agents is relatively small and enables in-network data processing with sharing of data and task results with insignificant overhead.

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As the terms crowdsensing and participatory sensing are closely related, with the above-mentioned differences, we utilize the terms interchangeably.

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Title: Mobile crowdsensing with mobile agents
Authors: Teemu Leppänen
José Álvarez Lacasia
Yoshito Tobe
Kaoru Sezaki
Jukka Riekki
Publication date: 24-10-2015
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems / Issue 1/2017
Print ISSN: 1387-2532
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7454
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10458-015-9311-7

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