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CSWA: Aggregation-Free Spatial-Temporal Community Sensing
In this paper, we present a novel community sensing paradigm -- {C}ommunity
{S}ensing {W}ithout {A}ggregation}. CSWA is designed to obtain the environment
information (e.g., air pollution or temperature) in each subarea of the target
area, without aggregating sensor and location data collected by community
members. CSWA operates on top of a secured peer-to-peer network over the
community members and proposes a novel \emph{Decentralized Spatial-Temporal
Compressive Sensing} framework based on \emph{Parallelized Stochastic Gradient
Descent}. Through learning the \emph{low-rank structure} via distributed
optimization, CSWA approximates the value of the sensor data in each subarea
(both covered and uncovered) for each sensing cycle using the sensor data
locally stored in each member's mobile device. Simulation experiments based on
real-world datasets demonstrate that CSWA exhibits low approximation error
(i.e., less than C in city-wide temperature sensing task and
units of PM2.5 index in urban air pollution sensing) and performs comparably to
(sometimes better than) state-of-the-art algorithms based on the data
aggregation and centralized computation.Comment: This paper has been accepted by AAAI 2018. First two authors are
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