Emergency Broadcast Architecture

Michael Dong and Ian Rodney

EECS Department
University of California, Berkeley
Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2019-75
May 17, 2019

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2019/EECS-2019-75.pdf

Public alert systems are neither new, novel, nor ready for the future. They are unprepared for the changing domain of media consumption and the growing threat of network-based attacks. Here we present a simple design for an architecture to reliably and securely distribute emergency alerts through the Internet. Rather than treating the network as a black box, we incorporate it into our design, enabling us to make stronger guarantees. We build off of a clean-slate framework that supports multiple, specialized architectures.

Advisor: Scott Shenker


BibTeX citation:

@mastersthesis{Dong:EECS-2019-75,
    Author = {Dong, Michael and Rodney, Ian},
    Title = {Emergency Broadcast Architecture},
    School = {EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley},
    Year = {2019},
    Month = {May},
    URL = {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2019/EECS-2019-75.html},
    Number = {UCB/EECS-2019-75},
    Abstract = {Public alert systems are neither new, novel, nor ready for the future. They are unprepared for the changing domain of media consumption and the growing threat of network-based attacks. Here we present a simple design for an architecture to reliably and securely distribute emergency alerts through the Internet. Rather than treating the network as a black box, we incorporate it into our design, enabling us to make stronger guarantees. We build off of a clean-slate framework that supports multiple, specialized architectures.}
}

EndNote citation:

%0 Thesis
%A Dong, Michael
%A Rodney, Ian
%T Emergency Broadcast Architecture
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 2019
%8 May 17
%@ UCB/EECS-2019-75
%U http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2019/EECS-2019-75.html
%F Dong:EECS-2019-75