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Fog computing is a promising paradigm in terms of extending cloud computing to an edge network. In a broad sense, fog computing in Internet-of-Vehicles(IoV) provides low-latency services since fog nodes are closely located with moving cars and are locally distributed. In this paper, we propose a fog computing architecture based on a publish/subscribe model. After that, we describe a traffic congestion control scenario using a smart traffic light system which operates on top of the proposed architecture. Furthermore, we propose an upper-level domain ontology in order to enhance the expressivity of knowledge and describe a variety of semantic properties which interlink spatial information in IoV. Finally, we present an active rule where supports the exchange of event-driven messages between publishing and subscribing fog nodes.

With the increasing number of mobile devices, there have been many researches on searching and managing a large volume of mobile data. Most of the mobile platforms today provide users with keyword-based full text search (FTS) in order to search for mobile data. Recently, voice search interfaces have been deployed. These search methods, however, query only the keywords given as an input to local databases in mobile devices. Therefore, it is quite difficult to figure out and to provide what a user really wants. To overcome this limitation, we propose a semantic search method for mobile platforms. The proposed method augments the results of semantic search on local databases with their related useful Web information according to the intention and context information of a user. Although there are various semantic search techniques, it is hard to apply the existing methods to mobile devices due to the characteristics of mobile devices such as isolated database structures and limited computing resources. To enable semantic search on mobile devices, we also propose a lightweight mobile ontology. The proposed mobile ontology is also aligned with related Web information to enrich search results. Experimental results from prototype implementation of the proposed method verify that our approach provides more accurate results than the conventional FTS does. In addition, the proposed method shows an acceptable amount of response time and battery consumption.

In this paper, we propose a method for processing spatiotemporal queries on semantic data streams generated from diverse sensors. On the Internet of Things (IoT) environment, the number of mobile sensors greatly increases and their locations are becoming more important. IoT services may not be fully supported when only considering the temporal feature of streaming data. Accordingly, stream processing should be performed with consideration into both temporal and spatial factors. However, existing researches have a limitation of processing spatial queries since they focus on the temporal processing of streaming data. To support spatiotemporal query processing on semantic data streams, we propose a query language, which integrates temporal and geospatial properties. Specifically, we construct a spatiotemporal index to process the proposed spatiotemporal query language efficiently. The experimental results with a prototype implementation show that the proposed method processes spatiotemporal queries in an acceptable time.

Most of the mobile platforms provide a keyword based full text search (FTS) for users to find what they want. However, FTS has difficulties in dealing with the cases where a user cannot remember the exact keywords about target data or the number of search results is too many. To overcome these limitations of FTS, we propose a semantically enhanced method of searching for data on mobile devices along with mobile ontology. Experimental results of the proposed method show that our method provides accurate search results and is suitable for a mobile environment.

This paper proposes a mobile search engine for smart devices, which effectively augments the result of local semantic search with useful Web information according to the intent and context of a mobile user. To support an intuitive query, we employ the conventional natural language user interface, which supports voice recognition. Through the prototype implementation of the proposed search engine, we find that it provides more meaningful search results semantically and contextually, compared with the conventional keyword-based search engines of mobile devices.