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Enhancing robustness of first responder communication in urban environments
Kamil Panitzek
author
Tobias Bönning
author
Immanuel Schweizer
author
Gero Seipel
author
Max Mühlhäuser
author
2012
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, BC
English
Communication is crucial for first responders. Crisis management is nearly impossible without good means of communication. Unfortunately the communication technology used by first responders today does not scale well. Also most of the given infrastructure, such as cell towers, might be destroyed. In recent research ad-hoc and peer-to-peer based communication has been proposed to solve the problem of resilient communication. Most mobile devices are equipped with wireless transceivers that make them suitable to participate in ad-hoc networks. But node density might be too small for a connected topology. In this paper we, therefore, discuss the implications of an emergency switch for private wireless routers allowing them to transition to an emergency mode to create a supportive wireless mesh network. To analyze if such a network would result in a resilient topology real data from wireless routers in a city is gathered. We calculate the locations of private and public routers from GPS traces and compare the resulting networks with each other. © 2012 ISCRAM.
Information systems
Mobile devices
Topology
Wireless mesh networks (WMN)
Analysis
First Response
Resiliency
Urban areas
Wireless routers
Routers
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KamilPanitzek_etal2012
ISCRAM 2012 Conference Proceedings – 9th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
ISCRAM 2012
L. Rothkrantz
J
Ristvej
editor
9th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
2012
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, BC
conference publication
9780864913326
2411-3387
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