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NICER911: Ad-hoc Communication and Emergency Services Using Networking Smartphones and Wireless Home Routers

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Mobihoc '17: Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3084041.3084075

Published: 10 July 2017 Publication History

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Reliable communication and emergency services are crucial for the success of crisis response and management. However, today's emergency technologies used by rescuers and civilians mainly rely on either centralized or specialized approaches, which reveal individual issues in infrastructure-less crisis scenarios. In this paper, we propose an emergency communication system called NICER911 that uses ad-hoc device-to-device communications enabling efficient data exchanges and delay-tolerant networking. On top of that, we integrate three types of emergency services allowing cooperations between rescuers and civilians: a social network, rescue instructions, and a self-rescue system. We implement a proof-of-concept prototype to show the feasibility, resource efficiency, and ease of use by preliminary quantitative and qualitative evaluations.

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NICER911: Ad-hoc Communication and Emergency Services Using Networking Smartphones and Wireless Home Routers
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Ubiquitous and mobile computing
    1. Ubiquitous and mobile devices
2. Networks
  1. Network types
    1. Ad hoc networks
      1. Mobile ad hoc networks

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July 2017

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DOI:10.1145/3084041

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