A Socially Inspired Smartphone Resource Sharing Scheme for Internet of Things in Smart Cities

摘要

Internet of things (IoT) is a major revolution in the history of technology that has penetrated in a vast number of human scenarios. Particularly for smart cities, a dense deployment of IoT devices can be spread throughout a large metropolis to collect data for different purposes in order to improve the life of citizens in aspects like health care, ecology or transportation systems. However, the task of retrieving data from such dense architectures in a large urban area may require costly investments of infrastructure in order to process, transport and centralize data in remote servers. In this article, we present a solution that might help to mitigate the problem, while it can reduce costs by relying on volunteering human users (HU) and their User Equipments (UE). Particularly, we propose a socially inspired IoT algorithm for cooperative uploading of sensor data, where each UE is motivated by a reward to share resources. In our assumptions, we consider that resource sharing should impact the least possible on the Quality of Experience (QoE) of HUs, while at the same time satisfactorily reward the contribution of each UE. Our algorithm is analyzed through simulation with the aim to study the possibilities of implementation in real life.