Pub Date : 2013-03-18DOI: 10.1109/PerComW.2013.6529572
L. Bergesio, Inigo Marquinez, A. Bernardos, J. Besada, J. Casar
When designing services to control the behavior of a smart environment, it is feasible to rely on mobile devices as mediators to empower the user and handle his needs and preferences. In this direction, this paper describes a concept for mobile-object instrumented interaction through a system that enables the orchestration of a set of smart objects with sensing and/or media capabilities deployed in a room. These objects are coordinated to respond accordingly to the physical and logical state of a mobile device. A specific case of use is described; it is centered on a 'smart night table' that coordinates the response of the smart environment, populated with interfaces such as a TV, tablet, sound system and photo framework. When a user places his smartphone on the smart table, a service checks the active applications in the mobile device and makes an external controller to forward actions to the mentioned interfaces, managing their availability. The prototype shows the viability of these mobile-object instrumented personalization and interaction concepts.
{"title":"PERSEO: A system to personalize the environment response through smart phones and objects","authors":"L. Bergesio, Inigo Marquinez, A. Bernardos, J. Besada, J. Casar","doi":"10.1109/PerComW.2013.6529572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PerComW.2013.6529572","url":null,"abstract":"When designing services to control the behavior of a smart environment, it is feasible to rely on mobile devices as mediators to empower the user and handle his needs and preferences. In this direction, this paper describes a concept for mobile-object instrumented interaction through a system that enables the orchestration of a set of smart objects with sensing and/or media capabilities deployed in a room. These objects are coordinated to respond accordingly to the physical and logical state of a mobile device. A specific case of use is described; it is centered on a 'smart night table' that coordinates the response of the smart environment, populated with interfaces such as a TV, tablet, sound system and photo framework. When a user places his smartphone on the smart table, a service checks the active applications in the mobile device and makes an external controller to forward actions to the mentioned interfaces, managing their availability. The prototype shows the viability of these mobile-object instrumented personalization and interaction concepts.","PeriodicalId":101502,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops)","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130013264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-03-18DOI: 10.1109/PerComW.2013.6529524
Ivan Elhart, Marc Langheinrich, N. Davies, R. Jose
Today's digital signage systems typically show content that has been scheduled well in advance by their respective “owners”, i.e., companies or individuals who paid for and/or operate the public display. However, with the shift to open display networks that can obtain content from many sources and the corresponding advances in interaction and sensing technologies, the scheduling requirements in this domain are set to change radically. For example, we envision that displays in our environment will soon be able to adapt to their surroundings and allow viewers to appropriate them by actively selecting and/or contributing content. Such levels of interactivity and context-awareness will require new approaches to content scheduling. In this paper we discuss the challenges faced in developing new forms of application and content scheduling for Open Pervasive Display Networks.
{"title":"Key challenges in application and content scheduling for Open Pervasive Display Networks","authors":"Ivan Elhart, Marc Langheinrich, N. Davies, R. Jose","doi":"10.1109/PerComW.2013.6529524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PerComW.2013.6529524","url":null,"abstract":"Today's digital signage systems typically show content that has been scheduled well in advance by their respective “owners”, i.e., companies or individuals who paid for and/or operate the public display. However, with the shift to open display networks that can obtain content from many sources and the corresponding advances in interaction and sensing technologies, the scheduling requirements in this domain are set to change radically. For example, we envision that displays in our environment will soon be able to adapt to their surroundings and allow viewers to appropriate them by actively selecting and/or contributing content. Such levels of interactivity and context-awareness will require new approaches to content scheduling. In this paper we discuss the challenges faced in developing new forms of application and content scheduling for Open Pervasive Display Networks.","PeriodicalId":101502,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134452858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-03-18DOI: 10.1109/PerComW.2013.6529486
Gualtiero Colombo, M. J. Chorley, Vlad Tanasescu, S. M. Allen, Christopher B. Jones, R. Whitaker
Increasingly popular location-based services can monitor our geographical positions in real time and so can provide a fundamental source for capturing users feelings and personal attitudes towards a particular place at a particular time. We propose a novel procedure for the representation of places through weighted tag-lists based on user reviews on these type of services. In our method the resulting lists can be built according to different criteria aiming to highlight differences and similarities among locations that can be in geographical proximity, belong to a similar type/category, or be included in the personal mobility history of a specific user.
{"title":"Will you like this place? A tag-based place representation approach","authors":"Gualtiero Colombo, M. J. Chorley, Vlad Tanasescu, S. M. Allen, Christopher B. Jones, R. Whitaker","doi":"10.1109/PerComW.2013.6529486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PerComW.2013.6529486","url":null,"abstract":"Increasingly popular location-based services can monitor our geographical positions in real time and so can provide a fundamental source for capturing users feelings and personal attitudes towards a particular place at a particular time. We propose a novel procedure for the representation of places through weighted tag-lists based on user reviews on these type of services. In our method the resulting lists can be built according to different criteria aiming to highlight differences and similarities among locations that can be in geographical proximity, belong to a similar type/category, or be included in the personal mobility history of a specific user.","PeriodicalId":101502,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134585189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-03-18DOI: 10.1109/PerComW.2013.6529556
Kyle E. Benson, N. Venkatasubramanian
In this paper, we consider many-to-one communication, in particular Internet-connected sensors and their relation to disaster response. We explore the application of resilient overlay networks to aid these devices, or individuals if we consider participatory sensing, in quickly and effectively routing around geographically correlated failures in the underlying network infrastructure, as would occur during a large-scale natural disaster. We develop a formal model of this system, a heuristic for choosing overlay paths without relying on any knowledge of the underlying network infrastructure, and show its merit through simulations using real Internet topologies.
{"title":"Improving sensor data delivery during disaster scenarios with resilient overlay networks","authors":"Kyle E. Benson, N. Venkatasubramanian","doi":"10.1109/PerComW.2013.6529556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PerComW.2013.6529556","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we consider many-to-one communication, in particular Internet-connected sensors and their relation to disaster response. We explore the application of resilient overlay networks to aid these devices, or individuals if we consider participatory sensing, in quickly and effectively routing around geographically correlated failures in the underlying network infrastructure, as would occur during a large-scale natural disaster. We develop a formal model of this system, a heuristic for choosing overlay paths without relying on any knowledge of the underlying network infrastructure, and show its merit through simulations using real Internet topologies.","PeriodicalId":101502,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132669217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-03-18DOI: 10.1109/PerComW.2013.6529488
V. Arnaboldi, M. Conti, Franca Delmastro, Giovanni Minutiello, L. Ricci
The proliferation of smartphones as complex sensing systems represents today the basis to further stimulate the active participation of mobile users in opportunistic sensing services. However, single sensing devices (either independent network components or integrated in more powerful devices) generally present different capabilities and implement proprietary standards. This highlights the necessity of defining a common standard for sensing data encoding in order to guarantee the interoperability of heterogeneous devices and personal mobile systems. In this paper we present Sensor Mobile Enablement (SME), a lightweight standard for efficiently identifying, coding and decoding heterogeneous sensing information on mobile devices. After a detailed analysis of SME features and advantages, we present its performances derived from real experiments on Android smartphones. Results highlight that SME does not heavily impact on mobile system's performances while efficiently supporting opportunistic sensing services.
{"title":"Sensor Mobile Enablement (SME): A light-weight standard for opportunistic sensing services","authors":"V. Arnaboldi, M. Conti, Franca Delmastro, Giovanni Minutiello, L. Ricci","doi":"10.1109/PerComW.2013.6529488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PerComW.2013.6529488","url":null,"abstract":"The proliferation of smartphones as complex sensing systems represents today the basis to further stimulate the active participation of mobile users in opportunistic sensing services. However, single sensing devices (either independent network components or integrated in more powerful devices) generally present different capabilities and implement proprietary standards. This highlights the necessity of defining a common standard for sensing data encoding in order to guarantee the interoperability of heterogeneous devices and personal mobile systems. In this paper we present Sensor Mobile Enablement (SME), a lightweight standard for efficiently identifying, coding and decoding heterogeneous sensing information on mobile devices. After a detailed analysis of SME features and advantages, we present its performances derived from real experiments on Android smartphones. Results highlight that SME does not heavily impact on mobile system's performances while efficiently supporting opportunistic sensing services.","PeriodicalId":101502,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops)","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132755072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-03-18DOI: 10.1109/PERCOMW.2013.6529503
S. Y. Shah, B. Szymanski, P. Zerfos, C. Bisdikian, C. Gibson, D. Harries
Service-oriented Architectures (SOA) for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are an active research topic. Yet, autonomous configuration of services for real life constraints (spatio-temporal, input/output interoperability, policies, security etc.) is still a challenging problem. In this demonstration we describe the results of our research into the automated and intelligent configuration and composition of services for complex tasks. We present a service-oriented system capable of performing service configuration under spatial and relevancy constraints. It can configure services in one of the three following modes: distributed, centralized and hybrid. It also supports automatic reconfiguration in the event of service failures. This system uses a generic cost representation for services that may include spatial coverage of the services in an area of interest along with other service configuration cost metrics. We demonstrate our system using state-of-the-art emulation frameworks with a real life scenario.
{"title":"Autonomous configuration of spatially aware sensor services in service oriented WSNs","authors":"S. Y. Shah, B. Szymanski, P. Zerfos, C. Bisdikian, C. Gibson, D. Harries","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2013.6529503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2013.6529503","url":null,"abstract":"Service-oriented Architectures (SOA) for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are an active research topic. Yet, autonomous configuration of services for real life constraints (spatio-temporal, input/output interoperability, policies, security etc.) is still a challenging problem. In this demonstration we describe the results of our research into the automated and intelligent configuration and composition of services for complex tasks. We present a service-oriented system capable of performing service configuration under spatial and relevancy constraints. It can configure services in one of the three following modes: distributed, centralized and hybrid. It also supports automatic reconfiguration in the event of service failures. This system uses a generic cost representation for services that may include spatial coverage of the services in an area of interest along with other service configuration cost metrics. We demonstrate our system using state-of-the-art emulation frameworks with a real life scenario.","PeriodicalId":101502,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops)","volume":"284 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133722866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-03-18DOI: 10.1109/PerComW.2013.6529526
Hongxia Jin, G. Saldamli, Richard Chow, Bart P. Knijnenburg
In this paper, we propose and investigate a user-centric device-cloud architecture for intelligently managing user data. The architecture allows users to keep their (private) data on their mobile devices and decide what to share with the service providers on the cloud, based on their individual privacy preferences, in order to get personalized services. Our architecture strives to help ease users' burden on managing privacy by giving automatic recommendations on how to configure their privacy profiles on devices. One focused contribution of this paper is that we instantiate this proposed general architecture to location-based service due to the privacy sensitivity of location data. We derive and validate our location-sharing recommendations using online user experiments. Our results show that the recommendations are accurate, and that they help users with the decisions involved in the privacy profile configuration process. Our results also demonstrate that the quality of personalized location-based services can be maintained even when the increased user privacy control leads to a situation where not all location data is shared with the service provider. These results lead the way to powerful location-based and other personalized services that improve user privacy.
{"title":"Recommendations-based location privacy control","authors":"Hongxia Jin, G. Saldamli, Richard Chow, Bart P. Knijnenburg","doi":"10.1109/PerComW.2013.6529526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PerComW.2013.6529526","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose and investigate a user-centric device-cloud architecture for intelligently managing user data. The architecture allows users to keep their (private) data on their mobile devices and decide what to share with the service providers on the cloud, based on their individual privacy preferences, in order to get personalized services. Our architecture strives to help ease users' burden on managing privacy by giving automatic recommendations on how to configure their privacy profiles on devices. One focused contribution of this paper is that we instantiate this proposed general architecture to location-based service due to the privacy sensitivity of location data. We derive and validate our location-sharing recommendations using online user experiments. Our results show that the recommendations are accurate, and that they help users with the decisions involved in the privacy profile configuration process. Our results also demonstrate that the quality of personalized location-based services can be maintained even when the increased user privacy control leads to a situation where not all location data is shared with the service provider. These results lead the way to powerful location-based and other personalized services that improve user privacy.","PeriodicalId":101502,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114598846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-03-18DOI: 10.1109/PerComW.2013.6529527
G. Vanderhulst, L. Trappeniers
Barcodes have survived the shift from paper to screen. Printed boarding passes and paper advertisements are substituted by mobile applications and digital billboards where barcodes remain key to exchange small amounts of information in a quick, uncomplicated way. The move to digital media opens up new opportunities for dynamic usage scenarios involving barcodes. In this paper, we explore how 2D barcodes can increase the awareness of machines in an analog world where information is primarily visualized for humans. Moreover, we exploit displays and cameras as virtual networks to transfer data using 2D barcode slideshows. Hence we address two problems conventional barcodes cope with: a constrained data capacity and a lack of semantics in the data it contains.
{"title":"Dynamic barcodes for a better ubiquitous understanding","authors":"G. Vanderhulst, L. Trappeniers","doi":"10.1109/PerComW.2013.6529527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PerComW.2013.6529527","url":null,"abstract":"Barcodes have survived the shift from paper to screen. Printed boarding passes and paper advertisements are substituted by mobile applications and digital billboards where barcodes remain key to exchange small amounts of information in a quick, uncomplicated way. The move to digital media opens up new opportunities for dynamic usage scenarios involving barcodes. In this paper, we explore how 2D barcodes can increase the awareness of machines in an analog world where information is primarily visualized for humans. Moreover, we exploit displays and cameras as virtual networks to transfer data using 2D barcode slideshows. Hence we address two problems conventional barcodes cope with: a constrained data capacity and a lack of semantics in the data it contains.","PeriodicalId":101502,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117117845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-03-18DOI: 10.1109/PerComW.2013.6529491
Ranjana Pathak, Peizhao Hu, J. Indulska, M. Portmann, Wee Lum Tan
Wireless mesh networks are well-recognised by their self-organising properties. End-to-end routing protocols are primarily responsible for achieving these advanced features. However, wireless link failures can cause a route to be invalidated and subsequently removed from the routing table in nodes along the path to destination. Once the route is not available, packets addressed for that destination will be dropped. To improve the packet delivery ratio of those end-to-end protocols, we propose a hybrid approach that integrates features of opportunistic protocols into traditional end-to-end routing protocols in mesh networks. The idea is to buffer packets for which there is no path to the destination and attempt to deliver these buffered packets when an alternative route is found or to pass them to neighbours who might eventually be able to establish a route to the destination. To demonstrate the concept, we present the AODV-OPP - an extension of the AODV protocol that uses opportunistic communication. AODVOPP always prefers end-to-end route before attempting to send opportunistically to neighbours. Based on a number of systematic simulation scenarios, we observe that AODV-OPP consistently outperforms the original AODV, with a PDR gain greater than 8% most times and up to 45%.
{"title":"Towards efficient opportunistic communications: A hybrid approach","authors":"Ranjana Pathak, Peizhao Hu, J. Indulska, M. Portmann, Wee Lum Tan","doi":"10.1109/PerComW.2013.6529491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PerComW.2013.6529491","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless mesh networks are well-recognised by their self-organising properties. End-to-end routing protocols are primarily responsible for achieving these advanced features. However, wireless link failures can cause a route to be invalidated and subsequently removed from the routing table in nodes along the path to destination. Once the route is not available, packets addressed for that destination will be dropped. To improve the packet delivery ratio of those end-to-end protocols, we propose a hybrid approach that integrates features of opportunistic protocols into traditional end-to-end routing protocols in mesh networks. The idea is to buffer packets for which there is no path to the destination and attempt to deliver these buffered packets when an alternative route is found or to pass them to neighbours who might eventually be able to establish a route to the destination. To demonstrate the concept, we present the AODV-OPP - an extension of the AODV protocol that uses opportunistic communication. AODVOPP always prefers end-to-end route before attempting to send opportunistically to neighbours. Based on a number of systematic simulation scenarios, we observe that AODV-OPP consistently outperforms the original AODV, with a PDR gain greater than 8% most times and up to 45%.","PeriodicalId":101502,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops)","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123996111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-03-18DOI: 10.1109/PerComW.2013.6529470
S. Rea, M. Aslam, D. Pesch
With the push for smart environments and the advent of concepts like Systems of Systems and Internet of Things, the need for underlying large-scale wireless sensor networks (WSNs) infrastructures is evident, however it is likely that no single private user could justify the costs to be incurred for a large-scale WSN deployment and the subsequent management and maintenance costs. In order to drive down costs and maximize the WSN utility a shared infrastructure approach makes large-scale multipurpose WSNs viable. The shared infrastructure paradigm where multiple applications and end users act on a single physical WSN infrastructure in parallel requires a fundamental change in the way WSN resources are managed are, specifically at the WSN device level. This paper draws on the cloud computing infrastructure as a service (IaaS) model and presents Serviceware - a middleware approach for infrastructure virtualization in next generation WSNs, where the WSN resources are exposed as services. Virtualization enables the slicing of the physical infrastructure into unique segments or virtual sensor networks that can be configured for individual end users according to their specific requirements.
{"title":"Serviceware - A service based management approach for WSN cloud infrastructures","authors":"S. Rea, M. Aslam, D. Pesch","doi":"10.1109/PerComW.2013.6529470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PerComW.2013.6529470","url":null,"abstract":"With the push for smart environments and the advent of concepts like Systems of Systems and Internet of Things, the need for underlying large-scale wireless sensor networks (WSNs) infrastructures is evident, however it is likely that no single private user could justify the costs to be incurred for a large-scale WSN deployment and the subsequent management and maintenance costs. In order to drive down costs and maximize the WSN utility a shared infrastructure approach makes large-scale multipurpose WSNs viable. The shared infrastructure paradigm where multiple applications and end users act on a single physical WSN infrastructure in parallel requires a fundamental change in the way WSN resources are managed are, specifically at the WSN device level. This paper draws on the cloud computing infrastructure as a service (IaaS) model and presents Serviceware - a middleware approach for infrastructure virtualization in next generation WSNs, where the WSN resources are exposed as services. Virtualization enables the slicing of the physical infrastructure into unique segments or virtual sensor networks that can be configured for individual end users according to their specific requirements.","PeriodicalId":101502,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124505119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}