A wireless system for reducing response time in urban search & rescue

2012 IEEE 31st International Performance Computing and Communications Conference, IPCCC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 215-224

  Chenji, Harsha ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Won, Myounggyu ^a   Stoleru, Radu ^a   Arnett, Clint ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b TEEX Emergency Services Training Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Disruption tolerant networking; Mobile ad hoc networks; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

COLLAPSED BUILDINGS; CRITICAL FACTORS; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; DISRUPTION TOLERANT NETWORKING; FIRST RESPONDERS; LESSONS LEARNED; NATURAL AND MAN-MADE DISASTERS; OPEN STANDARDS; REALISTIC EVALUATIONS; RESCUE OPERATIONS; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; SOFTWARE/HARDWARE; URBAN SEARCH; USER LEVELS; VICTIM DETECTIONS; WIRELESS ROUTERS; WIRELESS SYSTEMS;

MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS; ROUTERS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

HARDWARE;

EID: 84874330380     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PCCC.2012.6407756     Document Type: Conference Paper

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