Decentralized Emergency Alert Transmission System Using Device-to-Device Communication

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10.2991/978-94-6239-616-6_31How to use a DOI?

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Emergency alerting; Device-to-device mesh; Bluetooth; WiFi Direct; Decision support systems; Interoperability; Hospital surge capacity; Disaster response

Abstract

Disaster environments frequently disrupt conventional communication infrastructures, causing mobile networks and internet services to fail when they are most needed. Such breakdowns leave affected citizens unable to transmit distress signals and hinder coordinated emergency response. This survey examines resilient emergency response frameworks that integrate citizen-side alerting, decentralized connectivity, coordinated decision support, and hospital surge readiness. The proposed architecture, termed RescueLink, leverages a device-to-device mesh network that operates independently of cellular towers during outages. Using Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct, smartphones dynamically form a peer-to-peer mesh that enables store-and-forward propagation of SOS packets containing geolocation, timestamps, and incident metadata. Alerts continue to traverse multiple hops until they reach an active gateway or authorized responder, thereby removing single points of failure and ensuring continuity of communication under extreme conditions. The forwarded alerts populate a unified coordination dashboard equipped with capacity-aware routing and decision support features that help preserve limited hospital resources and reduce care bottlenecks during mass-casualty events. The system also incorporates privacy-preserving mechanisms for handling victim-generated evidence. Overall, this survey highlights key challenges in connectivity, interoperability, and surge management, and demonstrates how decentralized communication combined with intelligent coordination can strengthen end-to-end disaster response.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - L. Durga Devi
AU  - A. Gopinath
AU  - R. Niitheeshwar
AU  - I. Gokulnath
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/03/31
TI  - Decentralized Emergency Alert Transmission System Using Device-to-Device Communication
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Secure Data Analytics (ICAISDA 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 391
EP  - 411
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-616-6_31
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6239-616-6_31
ID  - DurgaDevi2026
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