An ad hoc network infrastructure: Communication and information sharing for emergency response

Proceedings - 4th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communication, WiMob 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 442-447

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic update board; Emergency response; Information sharing and resource management; Interoperability; Reliability; Text messaging; Wireless mesh test bed

Indexed keywords

AD HOC NETWORKS; EQUIPMENT TESTING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MANAGEMENT; MOBILE COMPUTING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ELECTRONIC UPDATE BOARD; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; INFORMATION SHARING AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; TEXT MESSAGING; WIRELESS MESH TEST BED;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 56749163258     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WiMob.2008.103     Document Type: Conference Paper

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