A personal emergency communication service for smartphones using FM transmitters

Chen, Yu-Jia; Lin, Chia-Yu; Wang, Li-Chun

doi:10.1109/pimrc.2013.6666745

Cited by 5 publications

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“…In [41], an advertisement mechanism for post-disaster scenarios is proposed; the system consists of BLE beacons worn by users, and smartphones gathering the advertisements and uploading them to an emergency management headquarter. To overcome the range problem of BLE and Wi-Fi systems in outdoor emergency scenarios, the authors of [42] propose to integrate FM radio transmitters into a smartphone, and deploy a novel app to broadcast emergency messages that are coded through the popular Morse scheme. Beside the communication technology, another key issue of phone-based network is the strategy used to disseminate data among devices when considering the intermittent connectivity and the likely presence of network partitions.…”

Section: Literature On Phone-based Ecsmentioning

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Design and performance evaluation of a LoRa-based mobile emergency management system (LOCATE)

2020

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Section: Literature On Phone-based Ecsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Design and performance evaluation of a LoRa-based mobile emergency management system (LOCATE)

2020

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Alert dissemination protocol using service discovery in Wi-Fi direct

Shahin

Younis

2015

2015 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)

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In certain situations, there may be an urgent need to disseminate alerts without the support of communication infrastructure. For example, when a disaster like an earthquake strikes, it may cause the loss of cellular coverage, Wi-Fi hotspots, etc. In this and similar application scenarios, last mile connectivity will be needed for prompt delivery of alerts. Nearly everyone nowadays carry a smart device that is equipped with at least three communication options that do not need any infrastructure, namely, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi Ad-hoc, and Wi-Fi Direct. Despite their ability to work without infrastructure, all these options need a connection setup phase before starting data dissemination. The setup phase incurs unneeded overhead and delay, which diminish their utility in delivering time-critical data. In this paper, we propose a protocol that uses the service discovery mechanism in Wi-Fi Direct to addresses these shortcomings. The protocol embeds the alert data to be disseminated in a Wi-Fi Direct service discovery frame and stores it locally. Other devices interested in receiving alerts send service discovery requests to get updates. The protocol also takes care of forwarding the received alerts to other devices as well. The evaluations showed that the proposed protocol is capable of transmitting timely alerts.

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