On designing communication networks for emergency situations

International Symposium on Technology and Society, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Dilmaghani, Raheleh B ^b   Rao, Ramesh R ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular infrastructure; Disaster categories; Hybrid wireless mesh network; Information sharing and privacy; Interoperability; Redundancy; Social challenges; World Trade Center

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; DISASTER PREVENTION; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

ALTERNATIVE ROUTES; AND RECOVERY; CELLULAR INFRASTRUCTURE; CELLULAR SIMULATORS; CELLULAR SYSTEMS; CELLULAR TECHNOLOGIES; COMMUNICATION FAILURES; COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURES; COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; DISASTER CATEGORIES; DISASTER PREPAREDNESS; EMERGENCY RESPONSES; EMERGENCY SITUATIONS; FIRST RESPONDERS; HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS; HYBRID WIRELESS MESH NETWORK; INFORMATION SHARING AND PRIVACY; INTERNET CONNECTIVITY; INTEROPERABILITY; REDUNDANCY; RELIABLE COMMUNICATION; SOCIAL CHALLENGES; SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS; WIRELESS MESH NETWORK; WORLD TRADE CENTER;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 48249116457     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISTAS.2006.4375882     Document Type: Conference Paper

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