[Communication networks in great natural disasters].

The Physical Layer of the IEEE 802.11p WAVE Communication Standard: The Specifications and Challenges

In the recent years, Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) emerged with great interest due to their impact in reducing traffic jams and increasing safety as well as alternative emergency communication system in case of natural disasters, when there is lack of ordinary communication systems. IEEE 802.11p standard known as Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE) is specially developed to ad...

A longitudinal study of evolving networks in response to natural disaster

In this study, we present a longitudinal analysis of the evolution of interorganizational disaster coordination networks (IoDCN) in response to natural disasters. There are very few systematic empirical studies which try to quantify the optimal functioning of emerging networks dealing with natural disasters. We suggest that social network analysis is a useful method for exploring this complex p...

Dynamic Agent-Based Prioritized Connection Admission for Stressed Networks

For broadband networks to be widely useful to society, they must dynamically recognize some connections, like those that deal with emergencies or natural disasters, as having greater importance than others. This paper proposes an architecture of geographically distributed ticket servers that issue importance tickets for connection admission. User agents contact ticket servers using an agent com...

P2Pnet: A MANET Based Emergency Communication System for Catastrophic Natural Disasters

When stricken by a catastrophic natural disaster, the efficiency of disaster response operation is very critical to life saving. However, communication systems, including cellular networks, were usually crashed due to various causes making the coordination among a large number of disorganized disaster response workers extremely difficult. Unfortunately, rapid deployment of an emergency communic...

Lessons from Field Damage Assessments about Communication Networks Power Supply and Infrastructure Performance during Natural Disasters with a focus on Hurricane Sandy