Connecting trapped civilians to a wireless ad hoc network of emergency response robots

2008 11th IEEE Singapore International Conference on Communication Systems, ICCS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 599-603

  Loukas, Georgios ^a   Timotheou, Stelios ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING EVACUATIONS; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; MULTI HOPS; NETWORK FLOWS; OPTIMAL ALLOCATIONS; OPTIMISATION; PROBABILISTIC REPRESENTATIONS; RESCUE OPERATIONS; WIRELESS AD-HOC NETWORKS; WIRELESS ROUTERS;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; LOCATION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; ROUTERS;

AD HOC NETWORKS;

EID: 62949221744     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCS.2008.4737254     Document Type: Conference Paper

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