Wireless Public Safety Networks 3

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

Researchers, scientists, postgraduate students in the areas of communications and signal processing

1: Public Warning Applications: Requirements and Examples

• Abstract
• 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

2: An Innovative and Economic Management of Earthquakes: Early Warnings and Situational Awareness in Real Time

• Abstract
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Motivation and previous works
• 2.3 Architecture
• 2.4 Results
• 2.5 Conclusions

3: Community Early Warning Systems

• Abstract
• 3.1 Core early warning system components
• 3.2 Time scenarios for EWS [EST 15]
• 3.3 Core early warning system components using smartphones
• 3.4 A smart city using smartphones into CEWS
• 3.5 Conclusions

4: Generating Crisis Maps for Large-scale Disasters: Issues and Challenges

• Abstract
• 4.1 Crisis mapping: “global” versus “local”
• 4.2 Post-disaster communication revisited
• 4.3 Proposed solution in a nutshell
• 4.4 Localized crisis mapping
• 4.5 Concluding remarks

5: Context-Aware Public Safety in a Pervasive Environment

• Abstract
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Context awareness
• 5.3 Context-aware middleware
• 5.4 Practical experience – implementation of AmritaMitra personal safety framework
• 5.5 Conclusion and future directions

6: Supporting New Application and Services over LTE Public Safety Networks

• Abstract
• 6.1 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

7: Aerial Platforms for Public Safety Networks and Performance Optimization

• Abstract
• 7.1 Aerial supported public safety networks
• 7.2 Air-to-ground radio channel
• 7.3 Optimizing the altitude of aerial platforms

8: Topology Control for Drone Networks

• Abstract
• 8.1 Introduction
• 8.2 Scenario
• 8.3 Related work
• 8.4 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

9: Safe and Secure Support for Public Safety Networks

• Abstract
• 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

10: Disaster Resilient Telematics Based on Device-to-Device Communication

• Abstract
• 10.1 Introduction
• 10.2 Public safety ad-hoc networking
• 10.3 Beaconing-based proximate communication
• 10.4 Beaconing-based networking
• 10.5 Concluding remarks

11: ICN/DTN for Public Safety in Mobile Networks

• Abstract
• 11.1 Introduction
• 11.2 Related work
• 11.3 System architecture
• 11.4 Example implementation
• 11.5 Conclusion