Special Session 8

Special Session 82024-03-27T13:52:26+00:00

Challenges and advanced technologies for crowd mobility monitoring: a 5G/6G approach

Date, hour and room to be defined

Session Chair:
  • Luigi Atzori (Univ. of Cagliari, IT)
  • Lucia Pintor (CNIT, IT)

The knowledge of how people move in urban areas is important for effectively deploying many city services, such as planning and monitoring transport mobility services, managing security procedures during crowded public events, and designing new public spaces. In the last decade, several technologies have been exploited to collect relevant data to get key insights on the number of people that gather in different points of interest, the amount of time the people spend there, and how frequently people return. Some of the key technologies are radars, lidars, cameras, Wi-Fi sniffers, 5G/6G signal analysis, CDRs, and crowdsourcing applications.
5G and 6G technologies are of paramount importance in this respect. From one side, the analysis of the signal and data collected by relevant networks can be used to estimate the number of people in an anonymous way; from another side, the relevant edge infrastructure can significantly support the processing and storage of a conspicuous amount of data that is generated by these sensors and that especially for anonymous purposes should be processed at the edge of the network. In this session, a special focus is given to turning personal mobile devices into tools for measuring human presence due to the widespread use of mobile devices, including tablets and smartphones, which created new opportunities for collecting comprehensive data on individual movements within cities while preserving their anonymity.
During this special session, the results of a challenge organised by the University of Cagliari in this area will also be announced. This challenge is focused on the results of proposed people counting algorithms tested on a provided sniffing dataset. More details about the challenge are available at: https://sites.unica.it/net4u/confront-challenge-on-wifi-frame-fingerprinting-for-people-counting-and-trackingconfront/

Programme

The session will be chaired by Luigi Atzori (University of Cagliari, Italy), who will introduce the motivations behind the session in a 5 minute presentation. In the first part of the session the authors related to the MOST project will describe their work about advanced technologies for crowd mobility monitoring. Authors will have 12 minutes to present their papers and 3 minutes to answer the questions. The usage of slides is recommended.

Authors presenting papers will be:

  • Giovanni Grieco (Polytechnic of Bari, Italy) – 5G sniffing
  • Francesca Marcello (University of Cagliari, Italy) – Channel State Information
  • Marco Fabris (University of Padua, Italy) – street sensor selection for traffic monitoring

In the second part of the session, Lucia Pintor (CNIT, Italy) will introduce the challenge organized by the University of Cagliari to reunite authors from different countries working on people counting through the analysis of sniffed management messages. This presentation will last 5 minutes.
The authors of the challenge papers will have a total of 30 minutes to present their work. As the challenge has not yet ended, we do not yet know the names of those who will rank highest and will present their work. Seven researchers are taking part in the challenge and among them the speakers will be selected.
Luigi Atzori (University of Cagliari, Italy) will conclude the session in the remaining time, presenting the future directions and collaborations established during this session.

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