Disruption tolerant communications for large scale emergency evacuation

2013 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 540-546

  Gorbil, Gokce ^a   Gelenbe, Erol ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

delay tolerant networks; disaster management; emergency simulation; evacuation support systems; Opportunistic communications

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EMERGENCY SIMULATION; EMERGENCY SUPPORT SYSTEMS; LARGE-SCALE EMERGENCY; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; OPPORTUNISTIC COMMUNICATIONS; SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

DELAY TOLERANT NETWORKS; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 84881504804     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PerComW.2013.6529555     Document Type: Conference Paper

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