Swiss Sense Synergy
Description
The SwissSenseSynergy project aims to bring together research from closely related fields that have recently emerged due to the proliferation of wireless computing devices. In particular, the ubiquity of smartphones as well as plans to deploy large numbers of small, local-range base stations (femto cells) creates many opportunities for synergistic computation as well as numerous privacy and security concerns for the users. The overall goal of SwissSenseSynergy is to provide a unifying framework for secure localisation and privacy-preserving location-based services. This is sure to lead to many innovations in the intersection of localisation, resource allocation, decision making, location-based services and privacy preservation.
The project partners have been chosen deliberately to bring together capabilities not available at any one institution. Each partner is represented by experienced researchers in the field of wireless communications, distributed computing, simulations and experimental evaluations, statistics as well as security and privacy.
UniGe’s partial work won Swisscom Innovation Award 2015.
The Swisscom Innovation Award 2015 is a competition targeting the best degree dissertations in the field of information and communication technologies. The competition is organized and supported by Swisscom, the Swiss Informatics Society and the ICT Switzerland. The key criteria of the competition are:
- Focus; directly tied to a theme in the world of ICT,
- Unique contribution; highly creative and innovative content,
- Functionality; the ideas presented are extremely viable,
- Business relevance; real-world insights and outcomes.
Blaise Carron, student of the University of Geneva did his bachelor thesis at the TCS Lab under the supervision of Dr. Orestis Evangelatos and Prof. Jose Roim. The title of his thesis is: “Crowd Enabled Framework for Smart Environment” and it was among the three winners in the Swisscom Innovation Award. The aim of the thesis is to augment a fixed sensing infrastructure of a smart environment with mobile crowdsensing resources and to make them interoperable to the system’s backend services.
This work lies behind the Objectives 1 and 3 of the University of Geneva of the SwissSenseSynergy project in which we expand our existing infrastructure and testbeds with mobile sensors and we augment it with mobile crowdsensing. In particular, the outcomes of this work are directly related to the Task 3 (Mobile CrowdSourcing) and Task 5 (Smart Environments, IPv6 and testbed expansion) of UNIGE. Via the implemented mobile android application, a user can augment the information that the smart environment collects by providing sensing data from her smartphone. Once the user registers herself to the backend system she is able also to interact with the actuators that are deployed inside the smart environment such as turn on the lamps or put down the curtains. The application is agile and it could report the information to any location and IP in which a Syndesi 2.0 server is running. The data reported from the smartphones sensors are harmonically interconnected with the data from the fixed resources. A user or a Web Service via a Syndesi 2.0 Web API can access all the crowd and fixed reported data.
Links:
http://cui.unige.ch/fr/nouvelles/swisscomaward2015/
https://ict.swisscom.ch/2015/11/analysis-of-security-primitives-in-public-clouds/
UniBE’s indoor localization work has been accepted by IEEE IPIN Indoor Localization Competition.
IEEE IPIN Indoor Localization Competition is one of the most well-known indoor localization competitions.
The competition is aimed at bringing together the academic and industrial research communities for evaluating different approaches and envisioning new research opportunities for the indoor localization area, where no accepted standards do yet exist. IPIN 2016 Indoor Localization Competition is based on the experience of previous editions sponsored by IPIN and EvAAL, the precursor organization behind the event, ensuring experience, solidity and a well-founded scientific method (http://evaal.aaloa.org).
UniBE’s infrastructure-less indoor positioning solution provides real-time localization by fusing WiFi signals, smartphone’s onboard IMU sensors, and floor map.
The competition will happen on October 4-7, 2016, at the University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.
A dissertation from UniBE’s PhD student received the Fritz Kutter award 2016.
The dissertation on indoor localization (“Fine-grained indoor positioning and tracking systems”) from UniBE’s PhD student Zan Li has received the Fritz Kutter award 2016.
UniGe’s partial work won the UNIGE Digital Fellow Award 2017.
The partial work on “Competing Crowds” (http://crowd.unige.ch) of the subproject of UNIGE is among the three winners of a competition to become University of Geneva Digital Fellows at Swissnex San Francisco in 2017 (https://www.unige.ch/international/en/collaborations-et-partenariats/digital-fellows). UNIGE’s PhD student Julia Buwaya represents the SwissSenseSynergy project at several events at Swissnex SF (http://www.swissnexsanfrancisco.org/) and in the greater Bay Area of San Francisco from April to May 2017.
SwissSenseSynergy press release
The SwissSenseSynergy has been featured in the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) news. The full text of the press release is available here.
Publications
- Luca Luceri, Felipe Cardoso, Michela Papandrea, Silvia Giordano, Julia Buwaya, Stephane Kundig, Marios Constantinos, Jose Rolim, Zhongliang Zhao, Jose Carrera, Torsten Braun, Aristide Tossou, Christos Dimitrakakis (2018). VIVO: a Secure, Privacy-Preserving and Real-Time Crowd-Sensing Framework for the Internet of Things (In Press). Pervasive and Mobile Computing Elsevier.
- Jakob Schaerer, Zhongliang Zhao, Torsten Braun and Severin Zumbrunn, “SDNWisebed: A Software-Defined Wireless Sensor Network Testbed,” submitted 2018.
- Julia Buwaya and José D. P. Rolim, “Equilibria in Selsh Network Pricing when Paths share Resources and Users route Atomic Splittable Demand,” submitted 2018.
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Zhongliang Zhao, Lucas Guardalben, Mostafa Karimzadeh, Jose Silva, Torsten Braun, and Susana Sargento, “Mobility Prediction-Assisted Over-The-Top Edge Prefetching for Hierarchical VANETs“, (In Presess) IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.
- Jose Carrera, Zhongliang Zhao, Torsten Braun, Zan Li, Augusto Neto, “A Real-time Robust Indoor Tracking System in Smartphones”, Elsevier Journal of Computer Communications, September 2017. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2017.09.004
- Luca Luceri, Alberto Vancheri, Torsten Braun, Silvia Giordano, “On the Social Influence in Human Behavior: Physical, Homophily, and Social Communities“, submitted to IEEE Globecom 2017.
- Zhongliang Zhao, Stephane Kuendig, Jose Carrera, Blaise Carron, Torsten Braun, Jose Rolim, “Demo: Indoor Location for Smart Environments“, IEEE LCN 2017 demo session.
- Zhongliang Zhao, Stephane Kuendig, Jose Carrera, Blaise Carron, Torsten Braun, Jose Rolim, “Indoor Location for Smart Environments with Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks“, accepted IEEE LCN 2017.
- Zhongliang Zhao, Mostafa Karimzadeh, Torsten Braun, “Mobile Crowd Location Prediction with Hybrid Features using Ensemble Learning“, submitted to Elsevier journal, August 2017.
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Julia Buwaya and José D. P. Rolim, “Mobile Crowdsensing from a Selfish Routing Perspective,” in IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPS Workshops), to be published in May 2017.
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Julia Buwaya and José D. P. Rolim, “Atomic Routing Mechanisms for Balance of Costs and Quality in Mobile Crowdsensing Systems,” in IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), to be published June 2017.
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Zan Li (2016), Fine-grained indoor positioning and tracking systems. (Dissertation, Universität Bern, Philosophisch-naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Institut für Informatik)
- Constantinos Angelopoulos, Julia Buwaya, Orestis Evangelatos, José Rolim, “Strategies for Wireless Recharging in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks”, Book Chapter in Wireless Power Transfer Algorithms, Technologies and Applications in Ad Hoc Communication Networks, Springer 2016.
- Stéphane Kündig, Pierre Leone, José D. P. Rolim: “A Distributed Algorithm Using Path Dissemination for Publish-Subscribe Communication Patterns” in MobiWac 2016. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2989250.2989268
- Aristide Tossou, Christos Dimitrakakis, “Achieving Privacy in the Adversarial Multi-Armed Bandit”, In: Thirty-first AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2017).
- Aristide Tossou, Christos Dimitrakakis and Devdatt Dubhashi, “Thompson Sampling For Stochastic Bandits with Graph Feedback”, In: Thirty-first AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2017).
- Luca Luceri, Infer Mobility Patterns and Social Dynamics for Modelling Human Behaviour. In: 2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Data Mining PhD Forum. 12-15 December 2016, Barcelona.
- Jose Carrera, Zhongliang Zhao, Torsten Braun, Zan Li, A Real-time Indoor Tracking System by Fusing, Inertial Sensor, Radio Signal and Floor Plan. In: 2016 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN). IEEE10.1109/IPIN.2016.7743701
- Jose Carrera, Zan Li, Zhongliang Zhao, Torsten Braun, Augusto Neto, A Real-time Indoor Tracking System in Smartphones. In: ACM MSWiM’16. ACM
- Elena Pagnin, Anjia Yang, Qiao Hu, Gerhard Hancke, Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, “HB+DB: Distance bounding meets human based authentication”, Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier), doi: 10.1016/j.future.2016.05.031, 2016. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167739X16301492
- Christoffer Karlsson and Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, “Grouping-Proof-Distance-Bounding Protocols: Keep All Your Friends Close”, IEEE Communications Letters, doi: 10.1109/LCOMM.2016.2562618.
- Julia Buwaya and José Rolim, “Bounding Distributed Energy Balancing Schemes for WSNs via Modular Subgames“, In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS) 2016, 26-28 May 2016, Washington DC, USA.
- Zan Li, Danilo Burbano Acuna, Zhongliang Zhao, Jose Carrera, Torsten Braun, “Fine-grained Indoor Tracking by Fusing Inertial Sensor and Physical Layer Information in WLANs”, In Proceeding of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2016, 23-27 May 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- VIVO testbed specification presentation, 7_10_2015_physical_meeting_SUPSI_vivo
- Zuhe Zhang, Benjamin Rubinstein, Christos Dimitrakakis, “On the Differential Privacy of Bayesian Inference”, AAAI 2016.
- Aristide Tossou, Christos Dimitrakakis, “Algorithms for Differentially Private Multi-Armed Bandits”, AAAI 2016.
- Steven Mudda, Silvia Giordano, “REGULA: Utilizing the Regularity of Human Mobility for Location Recommendation”, International Workshop on GeoStreaming, SIGSPATIAL 2015, 3-6th November 2015, Seattle, USA.
- Constantinos Marios, Julia Buwaya, Orestis Evangelatos, Jose Rolim, “Traversal Strategies for Wireless Power Transfer in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks”, Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems. DOI: 10.1145/2811587.2811603
- Elena Pagnin, Gerhard Hancke, Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, “Using Distance-Bounding Protocols to Securely Verify the Proximity of Two-Hop Neighbours”, IEEE Communications Letters 19(7): 1173-1176 (2015). DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2015.2434373
- Aristide C. Y. Tossou, Christos Dimitrakakis, “Differentially private, multi-agent multi-armed bandits”, Proceedings of the European Workshop on Reinforcement learning, Lille, France 2015.
- A. Hossmann-Picu , Z. Li, Z. Zhao, T. Braun, C. M. Angelopoulos, O. Evangelatos, J. Rolim, M. Papandrea, K. Garg, S. Giordano, A. C. Y. Tossou, C. Dimitrakakis and A. Mitrokotsa, “Synergistic User ↔ Context Analytics”, In Proceedings of The 7th ICT Innovations Conference, October 2015, Ohrid, R. Macedonia. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7892/boris.72169
- Z. Li, T. Braun, and D. Dimitrova, “Methodology for GPS Synchronization Evaluation with High Accuracy”, The 2015 IEEE 81st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC’15), 11–14 May 2015, Glasgow, Scotland. DOI: 10.1109/VTCSpring.2015.7145929
- Z. Li, T. Braun, and D. Dimitrova, “A Passive WiFi Source Localization System based on Fine-grained Power-based Trilateration”, IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks 2015 (WoWMoM’15), June 14-17, 2015, Boston, MA, USA. DOI: 10.1109/WoWMoM.2015.7158147
Team
The SwissSenseSynergy project consists of four sub-projects and four partners. It is coordinated by University of Bern, Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics:
- Prof. Torsten Braun (project leader)
- Dr. Zhongliang Zhao (technical coordinator)
University of Bern
- Institute: Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Prof. Torsten Braun
- Senior researchers: Zhongliang Zhao and formerly: Andreea Hossmann-Picu and Desislava Dimitrova
- PhD researcher: Zan Li, José Luis Carrera, Mostafa Karimzadeh
- The objective of this subproject is.
- Details of the sub-project: Details.
University of Geneva
- Institute: Department of Computer Science, Prof. José Rolim
- Senior researchers: Constantinos Marios Angelopoulos, Orestis Evangelatos
- PhD researcher: Julia Buwaya
- The objective of this subproject is.
- Details of the sub-project: Details.
SUPSI
- Institute: Institute for Information Systems and Networking, Prof. Silvia Giordano
- Senior researchers: Michela Papandrea, and formerly: Anna Förster
- PhD researcher: Luca Luceri
- The objective of this subproject is.
- Details of the sub-project: Details.
Chalmers University, Sweden
- Institute: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Prof. Aikaterini Mitrokotsa and Dr. Christos Dimitrakakis
- Senior researchers: none
- PhD researcher: Aristide Tossou
- The objective of this subproject is.
- Details of the sub-project: Details.