A dynamic model for fire emergency evacuation based on wireless sensor networks

8th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, ISPDC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 29-36

  Tabirca, Tatiana ^a   Brown, Kenneth N ^a   Sreenan, Cormac J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Dynamic networks; Fire fighter assistance; Safety; Sensors

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC NETWORK; DYNAMIC NETWORKS; FIRE EMERGENCIES;

DYNAMIC MODELS; FIRES; SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 74349109757     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISPDC.2009.33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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