Post-disaster communications: Enabling technologies, architectures, and open challenges

M Matracia, N Saeed, MA Kishk… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The number of disasters has increased over the past decade where these calamities
significantly affect the functionality of communication networks. In the context of 6G, airborne …

UAV-based real-time survivor detection system in post-disaster search and rescue operations

J Dong, K Ota, M Dong - IEEE Journal on Miniaturization for Air …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When a natural disaster occurs, the most critical task is to search and rescue trapped people
as soon as possible. In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely …

Big data on the fly: UAV-mounted mobile edge computing for disaster management

J Xu, K Ota, M Dong - IEEE Transactions on Network Science …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
After disasters, network communication is highly susceptible to disruption. In this case, we
may need solutions without original architectures to meet the requirements of connectivity …

Mobile edge computing (MEC)-enabled UAV placement and computation efficiency maximization in disaster scenario

Z Shah, U Javed, M Naeem… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are considered for disaster management to provide better
coverage or help first responders provide advanced services. Furthermore, UAVs combined …

Fine-grained management in 5G: DQL based intelligent resource allocation for network function virtualization in C-RAN

C Zhang, M Dong, K Ota - IEEE Transactions on Cognitive …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, the installation of 5G networks offers a variety of real-time, high-performance and
human-oriented customized services. However, the current laying 5G structure is unable to …

Optimizing communication network geodiversity for disaster resilience through shielding approach

M Liu, X Qi, H Pan - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2022 - Elsevier
The communication network is the critical infrastructure and backbone of modern society. On
the other hand, regional failures, including natural disasters and malicious attacks, pose a …

Recommender system-based diffusion inferring for open social networks

X Yang, M Dong, X Chen, K Ota - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Open social network (OSN) plays a more significant role in information propagation through
the rapid developing of information technology. Since information diffusion is an essential …

UAV base station trajectory optimization based on reinforcement learning in post-disaster search and rescue operations

S Zhao, K Ota, M Dong - arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.10338, 2022 - arxiv.org
Because of disaster, terrestrial base stations (TBS) would be partly crashed. Some user
equipments (UE) would be unserved. Deploying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) as aerial …

Real-time survivor detection in UAV thermal imagery based on deep learning

J Dong, K Ota, M Dong - 2020 16th International Conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) uses evolved significantly due to its high durability, lower
costs, easy implementation, and flexibility. After a natural disaster occurs, UAVs can quickly …

Computation-Aware Link Repair for Large-Scale Damage in Distributed Cloud Networks

Y Miao, H Tian, H Wu, W Ni… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the distributed deployment and inter-network dependence, distributed cloud network
(DCN) is vulnerable to large-scale damage, making emergent system recovery of vital …