Wireless Public Safety Networks 3

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