Tweeting 'when online is off'? Opportunistically creating mobile ad-hoc networks in response to disrupted infrastructure

ISCRAM 2014 Conference Proceedings - 11th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 662-671

  Al Akkad, Amro ^a   Raffelsberger, Christian ^b   Boden, Alexander ^a   Ramirez, Leonardo ^c   Zimmermann, Andreas ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FIT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^c FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disruptions; Infrastructure; Opportunistic communication; Smartphones

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PEER TO PEER NETWORKS; SMARTPHONES; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

DISRUPTIONS; INFRASTRUCTURE; ISOLATED ISLANDS; MOBILE ADHOC NETWORK (MANETS); NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE; OPPORTUNISTIC COMMUNICATIONS; PEER-TO-PEER FASHION; TWO WAYS;

MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS;

EID: 84905842545     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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