Mobile ad-hoc communication is a demonstrated solution to mitigate the impact of
infrastructure failures during large-scale disasters. A very complex issue in this domain is the …

After big disasters, a damaged area can be out of contact because of severe damage of
existing network infrastructures. Meanwhile, high demands for network connections to the …

Our experiences in East Japan Earthquake show that disasters will cause a large-scale
network interruption due to serious damage of existing network infrastructures. To enable …

Thematic maps, such as seismic risk maps, are a useful tool that researchers use for
representing the adverse outcomes that a natural catastrophic event can have over the …

Smart Fiber Wireless (SFiWi) networks have attracted great attention due to their ability to
become the next generation broadband access networks. FiWi networks integrate optical …

In recent time, a great deal of research effort has been directed toward promptly facilitating
post-disaster communication by using wireless mesh networks (WMNs). WMN technology …

The existing data service providers have gaps in their connectivity, especially in disaster and
remote underserved areas. A mesh network can address this shortcoming by providing …

After the occurrence of a disaster one of the main needs for the rescue teams and volunteer
helpers is a functional communication infrastructure even during the first hours. The disaster …

This paper proposes a model for Internet Protocol (IP) mesh video surveillance systems and
presents the performance evaluation of Ah-hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) and …

This article proposes a novel cost-effective, robust, reliable and flexible infrastructureless IoT
multi-hop Wireless Mesh Network (IoT-WMN) for Public Safety and Disaster Response …