Abstract Disaster Area Network (DAN) is very crucial in case of natural or man-made
disasters. During state of emergency, a rapidly deployable network is the highest priority to …

Existing public safety networks (PSNs) are not designed to cope with disasters such as
terrorist attacks, consequently leading to long delays and intolerable response times. First …

The flexibility of emergency communication networks to adapt is crucial for minimizing the
long-term effects of natural catastrophes. Traditional MANETs are only capable of meeting …

Terrorism is emerging as one of the most serious threats worldwide. Terrorist attacks are
becoming more coordinated, sophisticated and hence more devastating. One of the …

The aftermath of a disaster is a state of an emer-gency with damaged cellular towers and
broken communication links. The situation requires a rapidly deployable communications …

In this paper, we investigate the impact that human mobility and social interactions have on
data replication schemes in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), and how they can be used …

A MANET presents solutions to wireless connections without the need to use a network
infrastructure for its implementation, they dynamically create a network at any time and …

The proliferation of mobile devices and wireless communication has created new types of
networks that have different characteristics from the static, unchanging networks of the pre …

The IEEE 802.11 standard relies on the Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) as the
fundamental medium access control method. DCF uses the Binary Exponential Backoff …

The occurrence of natural disasters usually causes victims and damage to the
communication infrastructure. Without functional communication, rescuers face greater …