Wireless Public Safety Networks 3: Applications and Uses

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. 

1. Public Warning Applications: Requirements and Examples 2. An Innovative and Economic Management of Earthquakes: Early Warnings and Situational Awareness in Real Time 3. Community Early Warning Systems 4. Generating Crisis Maps for Large-scale Disasters: Issues and Challenges 5. Context-Aware Public Safety in a Pervasive Environment 6. Supporting New Application and Services over LTE Public Safety Networks 7. Aerial Platforms for Public Safety Networks and Performance Optimization 8. Topology Control for Drone Networks 9. Safe and Secure Support for Public Safety Networks 10. Disaster Resilient Telematics Based on Device-to-Device Communication 11. ICN/DTN for Public Safety in Mobile Networks