It is not uncommon that cellular communication infrastructures will likely be in a failure state
when disaster strikes, eg, floods, earthquakes, and forest fires. Therefore, developing an …

Ensuring communication infrastructures always alive during disaster mitigation and recovery
is of paramount importance. In this case, Unmanned Aerial vehicle (UAV) will be the ideal …

Disasters are crisis circumstances that put human life in jeopardy. During disasters, public
communication infrastructure is particularly damaged, obstructing Search And Rescue …

For unforeseen natural disasters, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, and floods, etc., the
traditional communication infrastructure is unavailable or seriously disrupted along with …

Reliable and flexible emergency communication is a key challenge for search and rescue in
the event of disasters, especially for the case when base stations are no longer functioning …

The overall efficiency of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) must be reliable when providing
wireless coverage service during and post-disaster scenarios. UAVs should be able to …

Due to Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV s) limitations in processing power and battery
lifetime. The tethered UAV (TUAV) offers an attractive approach to answer these …

Designing a reliable, resilient, and quickly deployable emergency communication network is
a key challenge for post-disaster management. In this paper, a UAV-assisted emergency Wi …

UAVs are increasingly incorporated in a wide range of domains such as disaster
management and rescue missions. UAV path planning deals with finding the most optimal or …

Internet of Things (IoT) promotes the awareness about our world and eases human life. In
IoT, machine-to-machine (M2M) communications empowers machine-type-devices (MTDs) …