Electronic communication is crucial for monitoring the rescue-relief operations and providing
assistance to the affected people during and after disasters. Given the ubiquity of …

Emergency communication networks are crucial for monitoring and providing assistance to
affected people during long-persisting disasters. Given substantial and increasing …

Natural disasters often cause the breakdown of the power grid in the affected areas
hampering telecommunication services. In the absence of electrical power undamaged …

In this paper, we investigate how to network smartphones for providing communications in
disaster recovery. By bridging the gaps among different kinds of wireless networks, we have …

In this paper, we propose a novel architecture called Energy Aware Disaster Recovery
Network using WiFi Tethering (E-DARWIN). The underlying idea is to make use of WiFi …

Reliable communication and emergency services are crucial for the success of crisis
response and management. However, today's emergency technologies used by rescuers …

In the event of a disaster, the communication infrastructure can be partially or totally
destroyed, or rendered unavailable due to high congestion. However, during such crisis …

Mobile devices have shown to be very useful during and post disaster. If the communication
infrastructure breaks down, however, they become almost useless as most services rely on …

We present an approach to enable long-range device-to-device communication between
smartphones in crisis situations. Our approach is based on inexpensive and readily …

Our dependence on mobile communications continues to grow; however, wireless devices
may encounter inadequate coverage due to a variety of shortage and outage circumstances …