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Title Wireless public safety networks. 3, Applications and uses / edited by Daniel Câmara, Navid Nikaein.

Publication Info. London, UK : ISTE Press ; Kidlington, Oxford, UK : Elsevier, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Networks & Telecommunications
Networks and telecommunications series.
Contents Front Cover; Wireless Public Safety Networks 3: Applications and Uses ; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Book overview; 1. Public Warning Applications: Requirements and Examples; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Emergency management communications; 1.3. Public warning systems; 1.4. Public warning applications; 1.5. Exemplary case: the Alert4All approach; 1.6. Conclusions; 1.7. Bibliography; 2. An Innovative and Economic Management of Earthquakes: Early Warnings and Situational Awareness in Real Time; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Motivation and previous works; 2.3. Architecture; 2.4. Results; 2.5. Conclusions.
2.6. Bibliography3. Community Early Warning Systems; 3.1. Core early warning system components; 3.2. Time scenarios for EWS ; 3.3. Core early warning system components using smartphones; 3.4. A smart city using smartphones into CEWS; 3.5. Conclusions; 3.6. Bibliography; 5. Context-Aware Public Safety in a Pervasive Environment; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Context awareness; 5.3. Context-aware middleware; 5.4. Practical experience -- implemention of AmritaMitra personal safety framework; 5.5. Conclusion and future directions; 5.6. Bibliography.
6. Supporting New Application and Services over LTE Public Safety Networks6.1. Introduction; 6.2. Motivation and background information; 6.3. Services for public safety networks; 6.4. Wearable devices in public safety; 6.5. Conclusions and future work; 6.6. Acknowledgments; 6.7. Bibliography; 7. Aerial Platforms for Public Safety Networks and Performance Optimization; 7.1. Aerial supported public safety networks; 7.2. Air-to-ground radio channel; 7.3. Optimizing the altitude of aerial platforms; 7.4. Bibliography; 8. Topology Control for Drone Networks; 8.1. Introduction; 8.2. Scenario.
8.3. Related work8.4. Examples of drone applications; 8.5. Drone architecture; 8.6. Fleet architecture; 8.7. Topology control requirements for network reliability; 8.8. Mission-based topology description; 8.9. Bases of the proposed method; 8.10. Experiments; 8.11. Conclusion; 8.12. Bibliography; 9. Safe and Secure Support for Public Safety Networks; 9.1. Introduction; 9.2. Context; 9.3. Case study; 9.4. Our approach: SysML-Sec; 9.5. Mission planning; 9.6. Related work; 9.7. Conclusion and perspectives; 9.8. Acknowledgment; 9.9. Bibliography.
10. Disaster Resilient Telematics Based on Device-to-Device Communication10.1. Introduction; 10.2. Public safety ad-hoc networking; 10.3. Beaconing-based proximate communication; 10.4. Beaconing-based networking; 10.5. Concluding remarks; 10.6. Bibliography; 11. ICN/DTN for Public Safety in Mobile Networks; 11.1. Introduction; 11.2. Related work; 11.3. System architecture; 11.4. Example implementation; 11.5. Conclusion; 11.6. Bibliography; List of Authors; Index; Back Cover.
Note Includes index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ScienceDirect, viewed April 17, 2017).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary This book explores, from the communication point of view, how teams can interact with and use new technologies and tools that can have a huge impact in the field of disaster management and greatly improve the efficiency of teams handling emergency situations. It 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.
Subject Public safety -- Information technology.
Internet of things.
Sécurité publique -- Technologie de l'information.
Internet des objets.
COMPUTERS -- Information Technology.
COMPUTERS -- Internet -- General.
Internet of things
Added Author Câmara, Daniel, editor.
Nikaein, Navid, editor.
Added Title Applications and uses
Other Form: Print version: Wireless public safety networks. 3, Applications and uses. London, UK : ISTE Press ; Kidlington, Oxford, UK : Elsevier, 2017 1785480537 9781785480539 (OCoLC)959036936
ISBN 9780081010709 (electronic bk.)
0081010702 (electronic bk.)
9781785480539 (print)
1785480537 (print)
Standard No. AU@ 000061154985
AU@ 000066306687
CHBIS 011069450
CHNEW 001014208
CHVBK 499782836
GBVCP 885667581
AU@ 000068128162

 
    
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