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Title:
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COMMUNICATION, COOPERATION AND COORDINATION IN AN AD-HOC ENVIRONMENT |
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Author(s):
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Diego Casado Mansilla , Andrés Navarro Guillén , Juan R. Velasco |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-56-0 |
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Editors:
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Nuno Guimarães and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2008 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Ad-hoc Networks, Mobile Agents, Nomadism, Service Discovery, Emergency & Disaster Recovery |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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344 |
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Last Page:
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347 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Wireless Networks and the usage of mobile devices are becoming popular in our daily routine, and step by step this
technology is growing in the emergency, disaster recovery and health care fields. This paper focuses on real telematic
service provisioning in scenarios where there is a lack of fixed communication infrastructure due to natural disasters
(fires, earthquakes, tsunamis ...). In these environments the use of mobile devices is mandatory, and in order to
communicate the mobile devices only Ad-hoc Networking can carry this out.
Mobile devices focuses their efforts of creating a network infrastructure and use it to route all the data information. Since
the main device's problems are well known in an Ad-hoc environment (power limitation, QoS, efficiency, Bandwidth
etc..) the usage of agents technology has been proposed to reduce them, and more specifically mobile agents which could
play a very important role controlling the communication flow and simplifying the exchange of services and cooperation
between nodes.
In this research we present a real scenario, where a fire has occurred and therefore the lack of fixed communication is
obvious. In this situation, a fire brigade must go to the disaster zone, deploy their groups to cover the fire area and always
be communicated and coordinated to remedy the damage that the fire might cause as soon as possible. It is possible that
assistants may go to the disaster area to analyze and solve the firefighters' needs. To achieve this, we propose the use of
Ad-hoc networks to keep an organized communication's structure, agents technology to manage and coordinate the
communication and services offered. |
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