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Dr Eiman Kanjo

Associate Professor

Associate Professor, Mobile Sensing and Pervasive Computing

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VIRAL MESSAGE PASSING FRAMEWORK FOR CROWD AND SENSOR APPLICATIONS

Bluetooth, WiFi, and NFC are considered to be low power, affordable and available on most mobile handsets. However, these types of wireless mediums are classified as short links since their communication ranges are limited to ~100meters for WiFi and ~10 meters in the case of Bluetooth which seems to stifle the full usefulness of the service. In this paper, we propose a new wireless network concept called ViralNet, solely dependent on the mobile devices in the vicinity using principles of opportunistic networking. ViralNet allow new type of communications beyond the short-range limit which can be used to connect to other phones and sensors distributed in the environment. A message or sensor reading can be turned instantly viral. An authentic user or a monitoring device sends a message to others nearby and they do the same without internet connection.  This  can  open  the  door  to  completely  new  type  of  applications  ranging  from emergency evacuation  in  crowded  areas  and  animal  monitoring  to  citizen  reportage,  if  the authorities want to keep an image from escaping the scene, they must confiscate hundreds or thousands of mobile phones.

 

Related publications

Kanjo, E., E. Platzer, and C. Kittl, "VIRALNET: A WAY TO MAKE SHORT-RANGE MESSAGES INSTANTLY VIRAL", ICICS '12 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information and Communication Systems , Jordan, ACM Association for Computing Machinery , pp. 10-20, 2012.  
Kanjo, E., "Tools and Architectural support for Mobile Phone based Crowd Control Systems", Network Protocols and Algorithms, vol. 4, issue ISSN 1943-3581, pp. 10, 2012.  
Kanjo, E., E. Platzer, and C. Kittl, "Viral Message Passing Framework for Crowd and Sensor Applications", Fourth International Conference on Networked Digital Technologies, Dubai, Springer LNS, 2012.