@conference { ISI:000361140000144, title = {Ferry-based Architecture for Participatory sensing}, booktitle = {2014 INTERNATIONAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND MOBILE COMPUTING CONFERENCE (IWCMC)}, series = {International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference}, year = {2014}, note = {10th International Wireless Communications \& Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Nicosia, CYPRUS, AUG 04-08, 2014}, pages = {845-849}, publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Cyprus Sect; Frederick Univ}, organization = {IEEE; IEEE Cyprus Sect; Frederick Univ}, abstract = {The concept of Participatory Sensing is centered on individuals that collect data using their smart phones (or other dedicated devices) to track the evolution of their work/living places. The main objective is to use the gathered data in order to enhance the offered quality of life. To maximize people involvement in this process we propose a ferry based architecture to leverage the contributors from charges associated with accessing service providers infrastructure to forward collected data. Opportunistic contact with message ferries will be exploited to gather data that will be carried from ferry-to-ferry till it reaches a centralized processing and decision-taking authority. We provide a closed formula for the End-to-End throughput of the proposed gathering network architecture.}, isbn = {978-1-4799-0959-9}, issn = {2376-6492}, author = {Koulali, Sara and Sabir, Essaid and Kobbane, Abdellatif and Azizi, Mostafa} }