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Turning the OpenMobileNetwork into a live crowdsourcing platform for semantic context-aware services

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Abdulbaki Uzun,

Lorenz Lehmann,

Thilo Geismar, and

Axel KüpperAuthors Info & Claims

I-SEMANTICS '13: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Semantic Systems

September 2013

Pages 89 - 96

https://doi.org/10.1145/2506182.2506194

Published: 04 September 2013 Publication History

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The OpenMobileNetwork is a semantic model for mobile network topologies created by following the principles of Linked Data. By correlating data in the Linking Open Data Cloud with the OpenMobileNetwork, innovative Semantic Context-aware Services (CAS) can be realized that are not solely driven by classic context data (e.g., geographic location), but also include further information from the semantics of the context in use. So far, this open-source initiative provided rather static network topology data triplified from open-source cell databases, such as OpenCellID or OpenBMap. Integrating dynamic and live network context data (e.g., current traffic and number of users in a mobile network cell) by exploiting crowdsourcing methods will further improve the Semantic CAS experience since the historic and live state of a mobile network cell is a valuable data source to be taken into consideration when providing personalized services. The challenge in realizing such a crowdsourcing approach lies in motivating a significant number of users to contribute with their data. For this purpose, we have turned the OpenMobileNetwork from a static dataset into a Live Crowdsourcing Platform for Semantic CAS including a semantic cellular database based on extended network context ontologies, two smartphone clients, and a Measurement Framework for gamifying the crowdsourcing process of collecting network measurements. The measurement statistics highlight the effectiveness of this approach.

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I-SEMANTICS '13: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Semantic Systems

September 2013

158 pages

ISBN:9781450319720

DOI:10.1145/2506182

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Marta Sabou
MODUL University Vienna, Austria
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Eva Blomqvist
Linköpings Universitet, Sweden
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Tommaso Di Noia
Technical University of Bari, Italy
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Harald Sack
Hasso-Plattner-Institute for IT Systems Engineering, Germany
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Tassilo Pellegrini
St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria

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