TY - GEN
T1 - Networking smartphones for disaster recovery
AU - Lu, Zongqing
AU - Cao, Guohong
AU - Porta, Thomas La
PY - 2016/4/19
Y1 - 2016/4/19
N2 - In this paper, we investigate how to network smart-phones for providing communications in disaster recovery. By bridging the gaps among different kinds of wireless networks, we have designed and implemented a system called TeamPhone, which provides smartphones the capabilities of communications in disaster recovery. Specifically, TeamPhone consists of two components: a messaging system and a self-rescue system. The messaging system integrates cellular networking, ad-hoc networking and opportunistic networking seamlessly, and enables communications among rescue workers. The self-rescue system energy-efficiently groups the smartphones of trapped survivor and sends out emergency messages so as to assist rescue operations. We have implemented TeamPhone as a prototype application on the Android platform and deployed it on off-the-shelf smartphones. Experiment results show that TeamPhone can properly fulfill communication requirements and greatly facilitate rescue operations in disaster recovery.
AB - In this paper, we investigate how to network smart-phones for providing communications in disaster recovery. By bridging the gaps among different kinds of wireless networks, we have designed and implemented a system called TeamPhone, which provides smartphones the capabilities of communications in disaster recovery. Specifically, TeamPhone consists of two components: a messaging system and a self-rescue system. The messaging system integrates cellular networking, ad-hoc networking and opportunistic networking seamlessly, and enables communications among rescue workers. The self-rescue system energy-efficiently groups the smartphones of trapped survivor and sends out emergency messages so as to assist rescue operations. We have implemented TeamPhone as a prototype application on the Android platform and deployed it on off-the-shelf smartphones. Experiment results show that TeamPhone can properly fulfill communication requirements and greatly facilitate rescue operations in disaster recovery.
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U2 - 10.1109/PERCOM.2016.7456503
DO - 10.1109/PERCOM.2016.7456503
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84969142731
T3 - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2016
BT - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2016
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 14th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2016
Y2 - 14 March 2016 through 19 March 2016
ER -