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Mobile Sensing Enabled Robust Detection of Security Threats in Urban Environments

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Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness in Heterogeneous Networks (QShine 2010)

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Mobile sensing enables data collection from large numbers of participants in ways that previously were not possible. In particular, by affixing a sensory device to a mobile device, such as smartphone or vehicle, mobile sensing provides the opportunity to not only collect dynamic information from environments but also detect the environmental hazards. In this paper, we propose a mobile sensing wireless network for surveillance of security threats in urban environments, e.g., environmental pollution sources or nuclear radiation materials. We formulate the security threats detection as a significant cluster detection problem. To make our approach robust to unreliable sensing data, we propose an algorithm based on the Mean Shift method to identify the significant clusters and determine the locations of threats. Extensive simulation studies are conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed detection algorithm.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Castle Point On Hudson, Hoboken, NJ, 07030, USA

    Jie Yang & Yingying Chen

  2. Department of Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, UMDNJ, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA

    Jerry Cheng

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, 77843-3259, College Station, TX, USA

    Xi Zhang

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, 50011, Ames, IA, USA

    Daji Qiao

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Yang, J., Cheng, J., Chen, Y. (2012). Mobile Sensing Enabled Robust Detection of Security Threats in Urban Environments. In: Zhang, X., Qiao, D. (eds) Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness in Heterogeneous Networks. QShine 2010. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 74. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29222-4_7

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