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 available for immediate utilization. Effective contact tracing can allow societies to reopen from lock-down even before availability of vaccines. The objective of mobile contact tracing is to speed up the manual interview based contact tracing process for containing an outbreak efficiently and quickly. In this article, we throw light on some of the issues and challenges pertaining to the adoption of mobile contact tracing solutions for fighting COVID-19. In essence, we proposed an Evaluation framework for mobile contact tracing solutions to determine their usability, feasibility, scalability and effectiveness. We evaluate some of the already proposed contact tracing solutions in light of our proposed framework. Furthermore, we present possible attacks that can be launched against contact tracing solutions along with their necessary countermeasures to thwart any possibility of such attacks.
The ubiquitous computing and its applications at different levels of abstraction are possible mainly by virtualization. Most of its applications are becoming pervasive with each passing day and with the growing trend of embedding computational and networking capabilities in everyday objects of use by a common man. Virtualization provides many opportunities for research in IoT since most of the IoT applications are resource constrained. Therefore, there is a need for an approach that shall manage the resources of the IoT ecosystem. Virtualization is one such approach that can play an important role in maximizing resource utilization and managing the resources of IoT applications. This paper presents a survey of Virtualization and the Internet of Things. The paper also discusses the role of virtualization in IoT resource management.
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