11th International Conference on Body Area Networks

Research Article

SWAN-Lake: Opportunistic Distributed Sensing for Android Smartphones

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.15-12-2016.2267797,
        author={Nicolae Vladimir Bozdog and Roshan Bharath Das and Aart van Halteren and Henri Bal},
        title={SWAN-Lake: Opportunistic Distributed Sensing for Android Smartphones},
        proceedings={11th International Conference on Body Area Networks},
        publisher={ACM},
        proceedings_a={BODYNETS},
        year={2017},
        month={4},
        keywords={distributed sensing ad-hoc data sharing device-to-device communication mobile computing internet of things android},
        doi={10.4108/eai.15-12-2016.2267797}
    }
    
  • Nicolae Vladimir Bozdog
    Roshan Bharath Das
    Aart van Halteren
    Henri Bal
    Year: 2017
    SWAN-Lake: Opportunistic Distributed Sensing for Android Smartphones
    BODYNETS
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.15-12-2016.2267797
Nicolae Vladimir Bozdog1,*, Roshan Bharath Das1, Aart van Halteren1, Henri Bal1
  • 1: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
*Contact email: n.v.bozdog@vu.nl

Abstract

Today, smart devices like mobile phones and fitness trackers have many sensors. Formatting, combining and querying sensor data from such devices can be a challenging and cumbersome task. In this paper we introduce SWAN-Lake, a distributed mobile framework that provides structured access to sensor data. SWAN-Lake provides access to local sensors as well as access to sensors of nearby devices. Here, we take a distributed approach by using device-to-device communication for exchanging sensor data between smartphones. We evaluate the performance and resource utilization using different sensing scenarios for our SWAN-Lake Android implementation. As a result, we show that our framework is energy efficient and performs well under high load.