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Title Spatiotemporal Fracture Data Inference In Sparse Mobile Crowdsensing: A Graph- And Attention-Based Approach
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Authors Guo X.; Huang F.; Yang D.; Tu C.; Yu Z.; Guo W.
Year 2024
Published IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 32, 2
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2023.3323522
Abstract Mobile Crowdsensing (MCS) is a sensing paradigm that enables large-scale smart city applications, such as environmental sensing and traffic monitoring. However, traditional MCS often suffers from performance degradation due to the limited spatiotemporal coverage of collected data. In this context, Sparse MCS has been proposed, which utilizes data inference algorithms to recover full data from sparse data collected by users. However, existing Sparse MCS approaches often overlook spatiotemporal fractures, where no data is observed either for a sensing subarea across all sensing time slots (temporal fracture), or for a sensing time slot in all sensing subarea (spatial fracture). Such spatiotemporal fractures pose great challenges to the data inference algorithms, as it is difficult to capture the complex spatiotemporal correlations of the sensing data from very limited observations. To address this issue, we propose a Graph- and Attention-based Matrix Completion (GAMC) method for the spatiotemporal fracture data inference problem in Sparse MCS. Specifically, we first pre-fill the general missing values using the classical Matrix Factorization (MF) technique. Then, we propose a neural network architecture based on Graph Attention Networks (GAT) and Transformer to capture complex spatiotemporal dependencies in the sensing data. Finally, we recover the complete data with a projection layer. We conduct extensive experiments on three real-world urban sensing datasets. The experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method. © 1993-2012 IEEE.
Author Keywords graph attention networks; Mobile crowdsensing; spatiotemporal fracture data inference; transformer


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