Research Article
Mobile XMPP and Cloud Service Collaboration: An Alliance for Flexible Disaster Management
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.collaboratecom.2011.247108, author={Ronny Klauck and Michael Kirsche and Jan Gaebler and Sebastian Schoepke}, title={Mobile XMPP and Cloud Service Collaboration: An Alliance for Flexible Disaster Management}, proceedings={7th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={COLLABORATECOM}, year={2012}, month={4}, keywords={xmpp cloud services collaboration mdns}, doi={10.4108/icst.collaboratecom.2011.247108} }- Ronny Klauck
Michael Kirsche
Jan Gaebler
Sebastian Schoepke
Year: 2012
Mobile XMPP and Cloud Service Collaboration: An Alliance for Flexible Disaster Management
COLLABORATECOM
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/icst.collaboratecom.2011.247108
Abstract
Recent crises like the Fukushima incident in Japan show that there is a demand for flexible and easy-to-use communication and sensor systems to support post-disaster management (i.e. the organization of actions in the follow-up of disasters), especially when critical infrastructure is affected. This paper introduces a system design that combines mobile XMPP-based and sensor-equipped devices with the flexibility of cloud services. This combination provides the communication between the different involved parties (e.g. rescue forces) and enables a global view on sensed data through the use of cloud-based storage and analysis services. Along with a discussion about requirements and a description of appropriate solutions and initial evaluations, we present new insights on the practical appliance of XMPP and potential enhancements for XMPP-based real life collaboration applications in hybrid (ad hoc and infrastructure) network scenarios.