The outbreak of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and predicted the widespread installation of sensors, in infrastructures, buildings, woods, rivers, or even the atmosphere. This has triggered a lot of interest in many different WSN topics, including identifying and addressing security issues, such as data integrity, node capture, secure routing, etc. On the contrary, privacy has not really been a concern in WSNs, as sensors are usually owned, operated, and queried by the same entity. (For instance, the National Department of Transportation deploys sensors and collects traffic information related to national highways.) On the other hand, the proliferation of mobile phones, along with their pervasive connectivity, has propelled the amount of digital data produced and processed every day. This has driven researchers and IT professionals to discuss and develop a novel sensing paradigm, where sensors are not deployed in specific locations, but are carried around by people. Today, many different sensors are already deployed in our mobile phones, and soon all our gadgets (e.g., even our clothes or cars) will embed a multitude of sensors (e.g., GPS, digital images, accelerometers, etc.). The data collected by sensor-equipped devices becomes of extreme interest to other users and applications. For instance, mobile phones may report (in real-time) temperature or noise level; similarly, cars may inform on traffic conditions. PS is an emerging paradigm that focuses on the seamless collection of information from a large number of connected, always-on, always-carried devices, such as mobile phones. PS leverages the wide proliferation of commodity sensor-equipped devices and the ubiquity of broadband network infrastructure to provide sensing applications where deployment of a WSN infrastructure is not economical or not feasible.
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