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22 papers
Impact of Spatial Proximity on Drone Services
Vejaykarthy Srithar, Syeda Amna Rizvi, Amani Abusafia +2
We demonstrate the peer-to-peer impact of drones flying in close proximity. Understanding these impacts is crucial for planning efficient drone delivery services. In this regard, w…
Privacy-aware IoT Fall Detection Services For Aging in Place
Abdallah Lakhdari, Jiajie Li, Amani Abusafia +1
Fall detection is critical to support the growing elderly population, projected to reach 2.1 billion by 2050. However, existing methods often face data scarcity challenges or compr…
Context-Aware Trustworthy IoT Energy Services Provisioning
Amani Abusafia, Athman Bouguettaya, Abdallah Lakhdari
We propose an IoT energy service provisioning framework to ensure consumers' Quality of Experience (QoE). A novel context-aware trust assessment model is proposed to evaluate the t…
Immersive 3D Simulator for Drone-as-a-Service
Jiamin Lin, Balsam Alkouz, Athman Bouguettaya +1
We propose a 3D simulator tailored for the Drone-as-a-Service framework. The simulator enables employing dynamic algorithms for addressing realistic delivery scenarios. We present…
Flow-Based Energy Services Composition
Amani Abusafia, Abdallah Lakhdari, Athman Bouguettaya
We propose a novel spatio-temporal service composition framework for crowdsourcing multiple IoT energy services to cater to multiple energy requests. We define a new energy service…
CrowdWeb: A Visualization Tool for Mobility Patterns in Smart Cities
Yisheng Alison Zheng, Abdallah Lakhdari, Amani Abusafia +2
Human mobility patterns refer to the regularities and trends in the way people move, travel, or navigate through different geographical locations over time. Detecting human mobilit…
Energy Loss Prediction in IoT Energy Services
Pengwei Yang, Amani Abusafia, Abdallah Lakhdari +1
We propose a novel Energy Loss Prediction(ELP) framework that estimates the energy loss in sharing crowdsourced energy services. Crowdsourcing wireless energy services is a novel a…
Activity-based Profiling for Energy Harvesting Estimation
Jiajie Li, Amani Abusafia, Abdallah Lakhdari +1
We propose a novel activity-based profiling framework to estimate IoT users' harvested energy based on their daily activities. Energy is harvested from natural sources such as the…
Monitoring Efficiency of IoT Wireless Charging
Pengwei Yang, Amani Abusafia, Abdallah Lakhdari +1
Crowdsourcing wireless energy is a novel and convenient solution to charge nearby IoT devices. Several applications have been proposed to enable peer-to-peer wireless energy chargi…
Towards peer-to-peer sharing of wireless energy services
Pengwei Yang, Amani Abusafia, Abdallah Lakhdari +1
Crowdsourcing wireless energy services is a novel convenient alternative to charge IoT devices. We demonstrate peer-to-peer wireless energy services sharing between smartphones ove…
In-Flight Energy-Driven Composition of Drone Swarm Services
Balsam Alkouz, Amani Abusafia, Abdallah Lakhdari +1
We propose a novel framework for swarm-based drone delivery services with in-flight energy recharging. The framework aims to enhance the delivery time of multiple packages by reduc…
Service-Based Wireless Energy Crowdsourcing
Amani Abusafia, Abdallah Lakhdari, Athman Bouguettaya
We propose a novel service-based ecosystem to crowdsource wireless energy to charge IoT devices. We leverage the service paradigm to abstract wireless energy crowdsourcing from nea…
Maximizing Consumer Satisfaction of IoT Energy Services
Amani Abusafia, Athman Bouguettaya, Abdallah Lakhdari
We propose a novel Quality of Experience (QoE)-aware framework to crowdsource IoT energy services efficiently. The proposed framework leverages the provisioning of energy services…
IMAP: Individual huMAn mobility Patterns visualizing platform
Yisheng Alison Zheng, Amani Abusafia, Abdallah Lakhdari +2
Understanding human mobility is essential for the development of smart cities and social behavior research. Human mobility models may be used in numerous applications, including pa…
DIY-IPS: Towards an Off-the-Shelf Accurate Indoor Positioning System
Riccardo Menon, Abdallah Lakhdari, Amani Abusafia +2
We present DIY-IPS - Do It Yourself - Indoor Positioning System, an open-source real-time indoor positioning mobile application. DIY-IPS detects users' indoor position by employing…
The Nudging Effect on Tracking Activity
Ruochun Wang, Amani Abusafia, Abdallah Lakhdari +1
Wearables activity trackers are becoming widely adopted to understand individual behavior. Understanding behavior may help in self-regulation such as self-monitoring, goal-setting,…
Quality of Experience Optimization in IoT Energy Services
Amani Abusafia, Athman Bouguettaya, Abdallah Lakhdari
We propose a novel Quality of Experience (QoE) metric as a key criterion to optimize the composition of energy services in a crowdsourced IoT environment. A novel importance-based…
Wireless IoT Energy Sharing Platform
Jessica Yao, Amani Abusafia, Abdallah Lakhdari +1
Wireless energy sharing is a novel convenient alternative to charge IoT devices. In this demo paper, we present a peer-to-peer wireless energy sharing platform. The platform enable…
Occupancy Estimation from Thermal Images
Zishan Qin, Dipankar Chaki, Abdallah Lakhdari +2
We propose a non-intrusive, and privacy-preserving occupancy estimation system for smart environments. The proposed scheme uses thermal images to detect the number of people in a g…
Crowdsharing Wireless Energy Services
Abdallah Lakhdari, Amani Abusafia, Athman Bouguettaya
We propose a novel self-sustained ecosystem for energy sharing in the IoT environment. We leverage energy harvesting, wireless power transfer, and crowdsourcing that facilitate the…
Reliability Model for Incentive-Driven IoT Energy Services
Amani Abusafia, Athman Bouguettaya
We propose a novel reliability model for composing energy service requests. The proposed model is based on consumers' behavior and history of energy requests. The reliability model…
Incentive-Based Selection and Composition of IoT Energy Services
Amani Abusafia, Athman Bouguettaya, Sajib Mistry
We propose a novel incentive-based framework for composing energy service requests. An incentive model is designed that considers the context of the providers and consumers to dete…