Browsing by Author "Zorba N."
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A Fair Reputation-Based Incentive Mechanism for Cooperative Crowd Sensing
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)Crowd Sensing (CS) is a paradigm empowered by the pervasiveness of mobile smart devices, in which crowds of device owners cooperate to provide information about their surrounding environment. In this paper, we introduce ... -
A framework for adaptive resolution geo-referencing in intelligent vehicular services
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Conference Paper)Future smart cities are profoundly looking forward to providing services that assure daily competent functionality. Efficient traffic management and related vehicular services are crucial aspects when considering the city's ... -
Bootstrap-Based Quality Metric for Scarce Sensing Systems
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)This paper considers Mobile Crowd-Sensing (MCS) systems that suffer from scarce participant availability due to small sample sizes in each sensing cycle. With such small sample sizes, a sample in error would dramatically ... -
Cost-efficient Multi-tasking in Coverage-aware Mobile Crowd Sensing
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)In Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS), task assignment and user selection to minimize the total incentive cost is a crucial issue that has received a lot of attention recently. Previous works studied incentive techniques for ... -
Efficient spectrum availability information recovery for wideband dsa networks: A weighted compressive sampling approach
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Article)There have recently been research efforts that leverage compressive sampling to enable wideband spectrum sensing recovery at sub-Nyquist rates. These efforts consider homogenous wideband spectrum, where all bands are assumed ... -
Electrical Energy Savings through Efficient Cooperation of Urban Buildings: The Smart Community Case of Superblocks' in Barcelona
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Article)The major challenges that urban living has presented in recent years, as a result of the increasing population density, have triggered a discussion about the development of effective solutions that target the economic, ... -
IDriveSense: Dynamic Route Planning Involving Roads Quality Information
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)Owing to the expeditious growth in the information and communication technologies, smart cities have raised the expectations in terms of efficient functioning and management. One key aspect of residents' daily comfort is ... -
Multi-tasking for cost-efficient mobile crowdsensing under uniformity constraints
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)In a practical Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) system, there usually exist multiple heterogeneous MCS tasks, each with a different set of requirements for completion. The coexistence of these MCS tasks presents a need to study ... -
Optimal Transport for Mobile Crowd Sensing Participants
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Conference Paper)Smart cities are becoming more complex and greater volumes of data are required for its efficient operation. Mobile Crowdsensing (MCS) is a paradigm that employs smartphones as instruments to collect data, where the ... -
Performance evaluation of a multi-standard fast charging station for electric vehicles
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Article)Electric vehicles (EVs) have been considered as a feasible solution to deal with the high fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions caused by conventional vehicles. However, long charging times and drivers' range anxiety ... -
Performance of THz Communications Over Cascaded RISs: A Practical Solution to the Over-Determined Formulation
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2022 , Article)As a last resort for radio frequency communication, Terahertz bands (0.1-10 THz) are targeted thanks to their ability to provide ultra-wide bandwidth satisfying varieties of emerging applications. However, the waves ... -
Quality of Coverage: A Novel Approach to Coverage for Mobile Crowd Sensing Systems
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Conference Paper)Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) is an effective paradigm that utilizes the crowd as an extended instrument for the purpose of collecting data. However, utilizing the crowd comes with the risks stemming from the crowd's ... -
Robust quality metric for scarce mobile crowd-sensing scenarios
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)This paper proposes a novel quality of source metric for Mobile Crowd-Sensing systems (MCS), for systems with scarce participant availability due to small sample sizes in each sensing cycle. We introduce a controlled quality ... -
Towards a Practical Crowdsensing System for Road Surface Conditions Monitoring
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Article)The Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure, systems, and applications demonstrate potential in serving smart city development. Crowdsensing approaches for road surface conditions monitoring can benefit smart city road ... -
UAV-based Semi-Autonomous Data Acquisition and Classification
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)Air pollution is a major issue contributing to global warming that threaten the quality of life on Earth. Numerous research disciplines are combining their efforts to combat air pollution by developing new methods to monitor ... -
Utilization of Wavelet Packet Sensor De-noising for Accurate Positioning in Intelligent Road Services
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)Recently, smart cities functionality and management have captured notable consideration. Owing to the rapid development in the information and communication technologies (ICT), various applications and services are highly ... -
VANET-based smart navigation for emergency evacuation and special events
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Conference Paper)In this paper we propose, develop, and analyze the performance of a new system-optimum navigation model that utilizes Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs), linear programming optimization, and stochastic routing to efficiently ...