An assessment of a wireless mesh network performance for urban search and rescue task

TIC-STH'09: 2009 IEEE Toronto International Conference - Science and Technology for Humanity

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 369-374

  Ribeiro, Cristina ^a   Ferworn, Alexander ^b   Tran, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accelerometers; Canine augmentation technology; Canine pose estimation; Packet delivery ratio; Propagation delay; Urban search and rescue; Wi Fi; Wireless mesh network

Indexed keywords

COLLAPSED BUILDINGS; CRITICAL DATA; MEASURING ALGORITHM; MESH NETWORK; NETWORK SIZE; PACKET DELIVERY RATIO; POSE ESTIMATION; POSE INFORMATION; PROPAGATION DELAYS; RELIABLE ESTIMATES; RELIABLE SYSTEMS; URBAN SEARCH AND RESCUE; WIRELESS TRANSMISSIONS;

ACCELEROMETERS; ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTS; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; TECHNOLOGY; TEMPERATURE INDICATING CAMERAS; WI-FI; WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS (WMN);

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS;

EID: 77952725027     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TIC-STH.2009.5444474     Document Type: Conference Paper

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