Abstract
Football stadia present a difficult environment for the deployment of digital services, due to their architectural design and the capacity problems from the numbers of fans. A delay tolerant network (DTN) is a viable solution to this problem. We present preliminary results from deploying an Android app building an ad hoc network amongst the attendees at matches at Brighton and Hove Albion’s AMEX stadium, so as to share the available capacity and supply digital services to season ticket holders. We describe the protocol, how we engaged our users in service design so that the app was attractive to use and the problems we encountered in using Android. Initial results show that there is interest in the services provided and that the DTN is successful in providing connectivity.
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Bandwidth estimated by regular transfer of randomised data to/from a lightly loaded server.
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Application number GB1304830.1
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Our initial tests in the protocol worked with a Galaxy Nexus which never changed its AP details. As detailed in Sect. 5, the need to deal with changing AP keys reduced the protocol coverage for Gingerbread devices.
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Wakeman, I., Naicken, S., Rimmer, J., Chalmers, D., Fisher, C. (2014). The Fans United will Always be Connected: Building a Practical DTN in a Football Stadium. In: Sherif, M., Mellouk, A., Li, J., Bellavista, P. (eds) Ad Hoc Networks. ADHOCNETS 2013. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 129. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04105-6_11
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