1. Cluster-BasedEpidemicControlthrough Smartphone-Based Body Area
Networks
Abstract:
Increasing population density, closer social contact and interactions make
epidemic control difficult. Traditional offline epidemic control methods
(e.g., using medical survey or medical records) or model-based approach
are not effective due to its inability to gather health data and social contact
information simultaneously or impractical statistical assumption about the
dynamics of social contact networks, respectively. In addition, it is
challenging to find optimal sets of people to be quarantined to contain the
spread of epidemics for large populations due to high computational
complexity. Unlike these approaches, in this paper, a novel cluster-based
epidemic control scheme is proposed based on Smartphone-based body
area networks. The proposed scheme divides the populations into multiple
clusters based on their physical location and social contact information. The
proposed control schemes are applied within the cluster or between
clusters. Further, we develop a computational efficient approach called
UGP to enable an effective clusterbased quarantine strategy using graph

2. theory for large scale networks (i.e., populations). The effectiveness of the
proposed methods is demonstrated through both simulations and
experiments on real social contact networks.