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Emergency announcements to mobile user devices in geographically defined areas
Elina Valtonen
Ronja Addams-Moring
Teemupekka Virtanen
Antti Järvinen
Mikael Moring
B. Van de Walle, B.C.
When emergency announcements (EA) to a population in a crisis area are needed, avoiding single points of failure in the EA sending and forwarding systems is essential. We present a new concept, an extension to existing EA sending systems, which is based on real-time location information about mobile devices. Such a solution would increase the EA sending systems' robustness through redundancy and technology diversity. At the same time, these mobile emergency announcement (MEA) sending systems would increase the percentage of the threatened population that can be reached fast. The proposition is based on a set of requirements for EA sending systems, the most important of which turned out to be ensuring the authenticity and integrity of the EA information content. We found our preliminary results too optimistic: current GSM networks should not be used for sending EAs, as it is quite possible to forge SMS text messages, even to multiple GSM phones in a specific target area. The next generations of mobile phone networks (3G/UMTS and 4G) seem more promising, due to their packet-oriented architectures, as each data packet can be stamped with verifiable information about the source of the data. However, the development of communications networks with features compatible with MEA sending will demand that both authorities and independent experts take an active, early role in networks design right beside the commercial organisations. © Proceedings ISCRAM 2004.
urn:ISBN:9076971080
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url:http://idl.iscram.org/show.php?record=224
citekey:ElinaValtonen_etal2004
citation:Elina Valtonen, Ronja Addams-Moring, Teemupekka Virtanen, Antti Järvinen, & Mikael Moring. (2004). Emergency announcements to mobile user devices in geographically defined areas. In B. C. B. Van de Walle (Ed.), Proceedings of ISCRAM 2004 – 1st International Workshop on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (pp. 151-156). Brussels: Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium.
2004
ConferencePaper
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Cellular telephones
Civil defense
Information systems
Mobile devices
Mobile phones
Communications networks
Data packet
GSM networks
Information contents
Mobile phone networks
Mobile users
Real-time location
Single point
Global system for mobile communications
file:http://idl.iscram.org/files/valtonen/2004/224_Valtonen_etal2004.pdf
Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium
English
2411-3387
Proceedings of ISCRAM 2004 – 1st International Workshop on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
2004
151
156
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