Towards efficient and reliable context data distribution in disaster area scenarios

Author

Fanelli, Mario ; Foschini, Luca ; Corradi, Antonio ; Boukerche, Azzedine

Author_Institution

PARADISE Res. Lab., Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

fYear

2010

fDate

10-14 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

252

Lastpage

255

Abstract

Disaster areas typical to deal with unexpected and sudden disasters, such as earthquakes and terrorist attacks, can take advantage of context-awareness, namely the capability of providing applications with full awareness of current execution context, to increase the possibility of saving human lives. Unfortunately, context-aware services in disaster areas require efficient and reliable context data distribution. Towards this direction, we present our quality-based context data distribution infrastructure, and we introduce two optimizations useful to improve both distribution efficiency and reliability. Experimental results, obtained by means of simulations, support our solutions.

Keywords

disasters; emergency services; mobile ad hoc networks; optimisation; reliability; ubiquitous computing; context aware services; disaster area scenarios; earthquakes; optimizations; quality based context data distribution infrastructure; reliability; terrorist attacks; Ad hoc networks; Context; Context-aware services; Delay; Distributed databases; Peer to peer computing; Wireless communication; Context Data Distribution Infrastructure; Context awareness; Disaster recovery scenarios;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks (LCN), 2010 IEEE 35th Conference on

Conference_Location

Denver, CO

ISSN

0742-1303

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8387-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.2010.5735715

Filename

5735715