Wireless Public Safety Networks 3: Applications and Uses

by Daniel Camara (Editor), Navid Nikaein (Editor)

Overview

This third volume of the Wireless Public Safety Networks series explores new tendencies in the Public Safety Networks (PSNs) field, highlighting real-use cases and applications that can be used by practitioners to help victims in the case of danger. Wireless Public Safety Networks 3: Applications and Uses explores, from the communication point of view, how teams can interact with and use new technologies and tools. These technologies can have a huge impact in the field of disaster management and greatly improve the efficiency of teams handling emergency situations. This volume of the series covers themes as varied as emergency alert systems, the organization of aerial platforms and the use of smartphones to detect earthquakes and to help in the resolution of kidnappings. 

• Presents a broad view on the field of PSNs
• Explores the main challenges associated with their use
• Presents the latest advancements in the field and its future perspectives

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780081010709
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	03/31/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	268
File size:	25 MB
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About the Author

Daniel Camara is a researcher at the Central Service of Criminal Intelligence of the French National Gendarmerie where he works with the analysis and forecasting of criminality patterns. His main research interests include wireless networks, distributed systems, quality of software and artificial intelligence algorithms
Navid Nikaein is Assistant Professor in the mobile communication department at Eurecom in France, where he leads a research group focusing on experimental system research related to wireless systems with concrete use-cases found in broadband access, massive IoT, and public safety networks.

Table of Contents

1. Public Warning Applications: Requirements and Examples 2. An Innovative and Economic Management of Earthquakes: Early Warnings and Situational Awareness in Real Time 3. Community Early Warning Systems 4. Generating Crisis Maps for Large-scale Disasters: Issues and Challenges 5. Context-Aware Public Safety in a Pervasive Environment 6. Supporting New Application and Services over LTE Public Safety Networks 7. Aerial Platforms for Public Safety Networks and Performance Optimization 8. Topology Control for Drone Networks 9. Safe and Secure Support for Public Safety Networks 10. Disaster Resilient Telematics Based on Device-to-Device Communication 11. ICN/DTN for Public Safety in Mobile Networks

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Presents the available wireless applications for helping crisis managers, exploring the benefits of a given technique in measurement scenarios