COVID-19 Contact-tracing Apps: a Survey on the Global Deployment and Challenges

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03599v2
• Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 15:20:15 GMT
• Title: COVID-19 Contact-tracing Apps: a Survey on the Global Deployment and Challenges
• Authors: Jinfeng Li and Xinyi Guo
• Abstract summary: Governments are rolling out contact-tracing Apps to aid the containment of the virus. The first hugely contentious issue facing the Apps is the deployment framework, i.e. centralized or decentralized. This work conducts a pioneering review of the above scenarios and contributes a geolocation mapping of the current deployment. The Apps vulnerabilities and the directions of research are identified, with a special focus on the Bluetooth-inspired decentralized paradigm.
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• Abstract: To address the massive spike in uncertainties triggered by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), there is an ever-increasing number of national governments that are rolling out contact-tracing Apps to aid the containment of the virus. The first hugely contentious issue facing the Apps is the deployment framework, i.e. centralized or decentralized. Based on this, the debate branches out to the corresponding technologies that underpin these architectures, i.e. GPS, QR codes, and Bluetooth. This work conducts a pioneering review of the above scenarios and contributes a geolocation mapping of the current deployment. The Apps vulnerabilities and the directions of research are identified, with a special focus on the Bluetooth-inspired decentralized paradigm.

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