In crowdsensing, appropriate rewards are always expected to compensate the participants
for their consumptions of physical resources and involvements of manual efforts. While …

Vehicular communication is an important and emerging area of research in the field of
vehicular technology. The development of software and hardware in communication …

We present the Low-Power Wireless Bus (LWB), a communication protocol that supports
several traffic patterns and mobile nodes immersed in static infrastructures. LWB turns a …

Smartphones have become the most pervasive devices in people's lives and are clearly
transforming the way we live and perceive technology. Today's smartphones benefit from …

Mobile phones have evolved from devices that are just used for voice and text
communication to platforms that are able to capture and transmit a range of data types …

Participatory urban planning is considered an important aspect of developing local
democracy. Recently, the use of mobile technologies to engage with citizens has gained …

Cyber–Physical convergence, the fast expansion of the Internet at its edge, and tighter
interactions between human users and their personal mobile devices push towardan …

Urban sensing, participatory sensing, and user activity recognition can provide rich
contextual information for mobile applications such as social networking and location-based …

This paper develops a navigation service, called GreenGPS, that uses participatory sensing
data to map fuel consumption on city streets, allowing drivers to find the most fuel efficient …

In this paper we present the design, implementation, evaluation, and user experiences of the
NoiseSpy application, our sound sensing system that turns the mobile phone into a low-cost …