An accurate and analytically tractable model for human inter-contact times

Mobile Computations with Surrounding Devices

“…While our discussion has been with the Mandelbrot application on just mobile devices, we are working towards a generic platform that can be customised for other applications and could harness a combination of mobile and stationary devices, and also cater to dynamic repositioning of nodes. Further avenues of work are needed for this vision to be a reality, such as the following: -Privacy Preservation: While this is not insurmountable and is critical for some applications, it is a concern for users-interesting work in Riederer et al [2011] considered selling personal data, and privacy in crowdsensing is considered in De Cristofaro and Soriente [2011], and homomorphic encryption [Gentry 2010] can be explored. -Security and Robustness: While securing data can be done via specialised schemes, and robustness achieved via redundancy and failure tackled via protocols, a sandboxing approach might be required whether a portion of a device is partitioned for "alien" jobs to be processed, and such jobs can only utilise certain portions of the phone's resources; the screensaver approach used in other CPU crowdsourcing approaches suggests that idle CPU can be volunteered 3 or paid for, perhaps on mobile devices; there is also a need to investigate the effect on the performance of nonideal scenarios, where redundancy is needed and employed.…”