From the Back Cover
In smart cities, the indispensable devices used in people's daily lives, such as smartphones, smartwatches, vehicles, and smart buildings, are equipped with more and more sensors. For example, most smartphones now have cameras, GPS, acceleration and light sensors. Leveraging the massive sensing data produced by users' common devices for large-scale, fine-grained sensing in smart cities is referred to as the urban crowdsensing. It can enable applications that are beneficial to a broad range of urban services, including traffic, wireless communication service (4G/5G), and environmental protection.
In this book, we provide an overview of our recent research progress on urban crowdsensing. Unlike the extant literature, we focus on multi-dimensional urban sensing using crowdsensing data. Specifically, the book explores how to utilize crowdsensing to see smart cities in terms of three-dimensional fundamental issues, including how to incentivize users' participation, how to recommend tasks, and how to transmit the massive sensing data. We propose a number of mechanisms and algorithms to address these important issues, which are key to utilizing the crowdsensing data for realizing urban applications. Moreover, we present how to exploit this available crowdsensing data to see smart cities through three-dimensional applications, including urban pollution monitoring, traffic volume prediction, and urban airborne sensing. More importantly, this book explores using buildings' sensing data for urban traffic sensing, thus establishing connections between smart buildings and intelligent transportation.
Given its scope, the book will be of particular interest to researchers, students, practicing professionals, and urban planners. Furthermore, it can serve as a primer, introducing beginners to mobile crowdsensing in smart cities and helping them understand how to collect and exploit crowdsensing data for various urban applications.
Chaocan Xiang (xiangchaocan@cqu.edu.cn) is an Associate Professor at the College of Computer Science, Chongqing University, China. He received his bachelor's degree and Ph.D. from Nanjing Institute of Communication Engineering, China, in 2009 and 2014, respectively. He subsequently studied at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in 2017 (supervised by Prof. Kang G. Shin, IEEE Life Fellow, ACM Fellow). His research interests mainly include UAVs/vehicle-based crowdsensing, urban computing, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, and big data. He has published more than 50 papers, including over 20 in leading venues such as IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE INFOCOM, and ACM Ubicomp. He has received a best paper award and a best poster award at two international conferences.
Panlong Yang (plyang@ustc.edu.cn) is a full Professor at the University of Science and Technology of China. He has been supported by the NSF Jiangsu through a Distinguished Young Scholarship and was honored as a CCF Distinguished Lecturer in 2015. He has published over 150 papers, including 40 in CCF Class A. Since 2012, he has supervised 14 master's and Ph.D. candidates, including two excellent dissertation winners in Jiangsu Province and the PLA education system. He has been supported by the National Key Development Project and NSFC projects. He has nominated by ACM MobiCom 2009 for the best demo honored mention awards, and won best paper awards at the IEEE MSN and MASS. He has served as general chair of BigCom and TPC chair of IEEE MSN. In addition, he has served as a TPC member of INFOCOM (CCF Class A) and an associate editor of the Journal of Communication of China. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE (2019).
Fu Xiao (xiaof@njupt.edu.cn) received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology from the Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, in 2007. He is currently a Professor and Dean of the School of Computer, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He has authored more than 60 papers in respected conference proceedings and journals, including IEEE INFOCOM, ACM Mobihoc, IEEE JASC, IEEE/ACM ToN, IEEE TPDS, IEEE TMC, etc. His main research interest is in the Internet of Things. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the Association for Computing Machinery.
Xiaochen Fan (fanxiaochen33@gmail.com) received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 2013, and his Ph.D. from the University of Technology Sydney, NSW, Australia, in 2021. His research interests include mobile/pervasive computing, deep learning, and Internet of Things (IoT). He has published over 25 peer-reviewed papers in high-quality journals and IEEE/ACM international conference proceedings.
