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A fundamental question in the study of location-based mobile sensing is how much energy can be saved while still guaranteeing the reliable localization accuracy. In this paper, we analyze key features of human proximity and find a motivation which implies that the energy-efficient and accurate localization is possible by sharing the locations of nearby mobile devices. From the location-based collaborative sensing idea, we formulate an optimization problem which aims to minimize the total number of location measurements for a given fairness criterion. Then, we propose a practical and distributed location sharing (DLS) protocol and an optimal parameter control algorithm (OWD) which makes the DLS protocol attain an asymptotic optimal performance. Via extensive simulations under various environments including real mobility traces, we verify that the proposed DLS+OWD policy significantly reduces the average power consumption of mobile devices with a higher fairness compared to the existing algorithms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to the tradeoff between capacity and fairness in a wide variety of networks, increasing one objective may deteriorate the other. This paper investigates the possibility of improving capacity and fairness at the same time, specifically in two-hop cellular networks. First, we prove that an achievable capacity region can be enlarged by using relay, i.e., the capacity and fairness tradeoff relationship is alleviated. To achieve the Pareto-efficient boundary of this enlarged capacity region, an appropriate scheduling algorithm should be developed. Thus, second, we propose a generalized opportunistic scheduling algorithm for relaying mode that can improve both capacity and fairness. Furthermore, we propose a heuristic algorithm with low complexity and signaling overhead for relaying mode. Extensive simulations under various configurations demonstrate that the proposed algorithm not only increases the throughput of each user but also effectively alleviates unfairness among users. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]