A New Generation Children Tracking System Using Bluetooth MANET Composed of Android Mobile Terminals
Koki MORII, Koji TAKETA, Yuichiro MORI, Hideharu KOJIMA† , Eitaro KOHNO, Shinji INOUE, Tomoyuki OHTA, Yoshiaki KAKUDA Graduate School of Information Sciences, Hiroshima City University, Hiroshima, Japan {cohki@nsw.info.,taketa@nsw.info.,mori@nsw.info.,kouno@nsw.info., shnj-496@nsw.info.,ohta@nsw.info.,kakuda@}hiroshima-cu.ac.jp,† hkojima@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp
Abstract—We have been developing a New Generation Children Tracking System using Android terminals which is based on experiences and findings of the field experiments for the Hiroshima City Tracking System executed in 2007. In the developing System, Android terminals communicate with each other with Bluetooth and configure a Bluetooth MANET. Also, they configure clusters autonomously by exchanged information. Tags in the Mesh Network use Wireless LAN to communicate with neighbor tags. They communicate with each other using the ad hoc routing protocols. We implement Secret Sharing Scheme for secure their end-to-end communication. In ATC2012, we plan to show the demonstration that Android terminals configure clusters autonomously and tags in the Mesh Network deliver cluster information to the server. Keywords-Ad Hoc Network; Autonomous Clustering; Android; Mesh Network;
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New Generation Children Tracking System
II. SATISFACTION OF REQUIREMENTS We applied several technologies to the system in order to satisfy the requirements which are described in Section 1. For Requirement (1), we use the Android terminals, to which we can install application freely without dependence of manufacturers or carriers. Therefore, we are able to implement and get functions smoothly. For Requirements (2) and (3), we adopt the Autonomous Clustering technique. It is necessary to