Communication and Coordination Support in Ad Hoc Networks for Emergency Management
J. Mocito, L. Rodrigues, and H. Miranda
Selected sections of this report were published in the proceedings of
the 6th International Wireless Communications and Computing
Conference (IWCMC'10), Caen, France, June 2010.
Abstract
In recent years the world has witnessed many catastrophic events where
the intervention of first responders was required to manage massive
disaster scenarios. To be effective, emergency management teams must
be able to coordinate and communicate efficiently. To the best of
our knowledge no solution has been proposed to support the
communication and coordination of these teams in an integrated
fashion. In this paper we propose MUSTUS, an architecture that
provides communication mechanisms and coordination primitives, based
on the interaction through a tuple space, whose semantics are
specifically designed to support the needs of emergency management
applications.
Also available extended report (pdf)
Luís Rodrigues