When Social Sensing Meets Edge Computing: Vision and Challenges

Daniel Yue Zhang, Nathan Vance, Dong Wang

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Abstract

This paper overviews the state of the art, research challenges, and future opportunities in an emerging research direction: Social Sensing based Edge Computing (SSEC). Social sensing has emerged as a new sensing application paradigm where measurements about the physical world are collected from humans or from devices on their behalf. The advent of edge computing pushes the frontier of computation, service, and data along the cloud-to-things continuum. The merging of these two technical trends generates a set of new research challenges that need to be addressed. In this paper, we first define the new SSEC paradigm that is motivated by a few underlying technology trends. We then present a few representative real-world case studies of SSEC applications and several key research challenges that exist in those applications. Finally, we envision a few exciting research directions in future SSEC. We hope this paper will stimulate discussions of this emerging research direction in the community.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationICCCN 2019 - 28th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781728118567
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event28th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN 2019 - Valencia, Spain
Duration: Jul 29 2019Aug 1 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN
Volume2019-July
ISSN (Print)1095-2055

Conference

Conference28th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN 2019
Country/TerritorySpain
CityValencia
Period7/29/198/1/19

Keywords

  • Edge Computing
  • Internet of Things
  • Smart Cities
  • Social Sensing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Software

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