Applicability of mobile contact tracing in fighting pandemic (COVID-19): Issues, challenges and solutions

AB Dar, AH Lone, S Zahoor, AA Khan, R Naaz - Computer Science Review, 2020 - Elsevier
Contact Tracing is considered as the first and the most effective step towards containing an
outbreak, as resources for mass testing and large quantity of vaccines are highly unlikely …

COVID-19 contact tracing: challenges and future directions

MJM Chowdhury, MS Ferdous, K Biswas… - Ieee …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Contact tracing has become a vital tool for public health officials to effectively combat the
spread of new diseases, such as the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19. Contact tracing …

Digital contact tracing: technologies, shortcomings, and the path forward

A Trivedi, D Vasisht - ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, technology enthusiasts have pushed for digital
contact tracing as a critical tool for breaking the COVID-19 transmission chains. Motivated by …

Privacy-preserving contact tracing: current solutions and open questions

Q Tang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.06818, 2020 - arxiv.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed a unique challenge for the world to find solutions,
ranging from vaccines to ICT solutions to slow down the virus spreading. Due to the highly …

The adoption of contact tracing applications of COVID-19 by European governments

S Jacob, J Lawarée - Policy Design and Practice, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Contact tracing can be defined as the identification and the monitoring of each person who
has been in contact with an infected person. However, the effectiveness of manual contact …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 digital contact tracing applications and techniques: A review post initial deployments

M Shahroz, F Ahmad, MS Younis, N Ahmad… - Transportation …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a severe global pandemic that has
claimed millions of lives and continues to overwhelm public health systems in many …

[HTML][HTML] Contact tracing apps for the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic literature review of challenges and future directions for neo-liberal societies

A Akinbi, M Forshaw, V Blinkhorn - Health Information Science and …, 2021 - Springer
Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic has spread with increased fatalities around the world and
has become an international public health crisis. Public health authorities in many countries …

CONTAIN: Privacy-oriented contact tracing protocols for epidemics

A Hekmati, G Ramachandran… - 2021 IFIP/IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Public health agencies advocate the use of contact tracing procedures to deal with
pandemics such as COVID-19 to prevent the infection of a vast population. Although several …

Evaluating how smartphone contact tracing technology can reduce the spread of infectious diseases: The case of COVID-19

E Hernández-Orallo, P Manzoni, CT Calafate… - Ieee …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Detecting and controlling the diffusion of infectious diseases such as COVID-19 is crucial to
managing epidemics. One common measure taken to contain or reduce diffusion is to detect …

Epione: Lightweight contact tracing with strong privacy

N Trieu, K Shehata, P Saxena, R Shokri… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Contact tracing is an essential tool in containing infectious diseases such as COVID-19.
Many countries and research groups have launched or announced mobile apps to facilitate …