As electric vehicle (EV) adoption increases, transportation services will shift dependence
from liquid fuel infrastructure to electric power infrastructure. Since transportation plays a …

When facing with sudden terrorist attacks or natural disasters, in order to avoid the paralysis
of communication networks caused by the destruction of partial ordinary 4G cellular base …

A new low-cost reconfigurable software-defined radio (SDR) platform for high-frequency
(HF) applications is presented in this article. The platform can work in the entire HF band (3 …

In this paper, we focus on a typical cooperative communication system with one pair of
source and destination, where a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flying from a start location …

This study examined the relationship between risk perception and evacuation behavior, and
the sociospatial contexts that affect evacuation. It is argued that risk perception and …

Flying ad hoc networks composed of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are flexible,
inexpensive, and fast to deploy. This makes them a very attractive technology for many …

When multiple types of disasters occur sequentially–a cascading disaster–certain adaptive
capacities might become temporarily ineffective or invalid. Advancing an understanding of …

This paper examines the spatial clustering and correlation of epicentres of the 2015 Gorkha
earthquake and its spatial relationship to the telecommunications infrastructure of Nepal …

Risk-aware Data Replication (RDR), which replicates data at primary sites to nearby safe
backup sites, has been proposed to mitigate service disruption in a disaster area even after …

Network survivability is an important element in telecommunication network design
nowadays because of the social and economic reliance on the Internet and the significant …