Evaluating peer behaviour in distributed participatory sensing

  • Authors:
  • Ramaprasada R. Kalidindi;Kvsvn Raju;V. Valli Kumari;C. S. Reddy

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, S.R.K.R. Engineering College, Bhimavaram, India;Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, College of Engineering, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India;Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, College of Engineering, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India;Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, College of Engineering, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India

  • Venue:
  • WSEAS Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Recent advances in ubiquitous computing and availability of low cost sensors have led to the wide spread use of sensor networks in civilian applications. These networks along with multisensory personal devices generate lot of data in digital domain. Harnessing this data for urban sensing applications reduces the cost of implementation. This is possible when people share their data as a community service. However, people hesitate to participate because of trust deficit. Instilling trust among the participants will enhance people's participation and make a way for newer applications to share data among people. This paper describes a model for data sharing by computing confidence among networked peers. The social interactions in digital domain and reputation in community establish goodwill among peers. This goodwill and the trust on various control factors that influence a peer are used to evaluate its behaviour. However, trusting on peer's behaviour may involve risk otherwise there is an opportunity. More of opportunity than risk induces confidence on a peer. Finally, this confidence in peer decides whether to share data or not.