A durable sensor enabled lifeline support for firefighters

Salam, H. Abdel; Rizvi, Syed R.; Ainsworth, Scott G.; Olariu, Stephan

doi:10.1109/infocom.2008.4544607

Cited by 11 publications

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“…Furthermore, the amount of time consumed in location calculation can cause serious delays for emergency response networks like FCNs. In [19], a lifeline support was provided for firefighters consisting of durable sensors. The proposed scheme helps to provide navigation support to firefighters in the fire field where visibility is highly impaired.…”

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A reliable energy-balancing multi-group (REM) routing protocol for firefighter communication networks

Atiq

Manzoor

Kim

et al. 2014

J Wireless Com Network

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In a fire rescue operation, a fast, reliable, and robust communication system is needed to quickly take control of the emergent situation. One of the most important issues in firefighter communication networks (FCNs) is the design of a specialized routing protocol that caters to the specific needs of the fire rescue application. This paper proposes a reliable, energy-balancing, multi-group (REM) routing protocol for an FCN. Since firefighters work in groups, a cluster-based hierarchical approach was adopted. REM is intended to achieve reliability and energy balancing in data communication by incorporating metric-based cluster head (CH) selection, CH rotation among cluster members, and a routing algorithm. Within a cluster, the node with highest metric value based on residual energy and number of connections is chosen as the CH. The CH's responsibilities are rotated periodically among the cluster members. REM chooses nodes with a higher metric based on residual energy, number of connections, and number of hops to the base station (BS) as the next hop for forwarding data to the BS. This helps to achieve reliability, less delay, and energy balancing when compared with other routing schemes, as evident from the simulation results.

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“…The proposed scheme helps to provide navigation support to firefighters in the fire field where visibility is highly impaired. However, the proposed scheme in [19], does not provide communication architecture for the FCN. Will et al presented a prototype system for the emergency scenarios particularly fire field in [6].…”

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A reliable energy-balancing multi-group (REM) routing protocol for firefighter communication networks

Atiq

Manzoor

Kim

et al. 2014

J Wireless Com Network

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“…In this paper, we consider multiple mobile sinks from the application aspects. Many applications require a WSN allow mobile users moving around the network to have abilities to access the network, such as a firefighter system [6]. Besides, the rise of Internet of Things (IoT) increases the demand of mobile sinks.…”

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Many-to-Many Data Collection for Mobile Users in Wireless Sensor Networks

Huang

Lin

2015

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering

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Abstract. Data collection is one of the fundamental functions in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Different from traditional data collection mechanisms which only consider a single and stationary sink, this paper studies this problem in a scenario with multiple mobile sinks. The motivation is for a WSN to support future applications, such as Internet of Things (IoT). In this case, a WSN is required to be able to deliver sensing results to multiple users moving around the network. There are two difficulties in this problem: sink mobility and multiple sinks. Since sinks are mobile, data delivery paths need to be updated frequently, which causes huge maintenance cost. To resolve this problem, we propose a hop-count based data collection architecture together with an efficient mobility management scheme. On the other side, sensing results from a large number of sensors are sent to multiple sinks, which causes lots of packet transmissions. To resolve this problem, we combine the idea of multicast and data aggregation. We first prove that the optimal multicast decision is a NP-hard problem and then propose a distributed heuristic solution. In addition, we further integrate data aggregation into multicast and propose a distributed many-to-many aggregation mechanism. Simulations are constructed to show the efficiency of the proposed schemes. The results show that both our multicast method and many-to-many aggregation method can efficiently reduce communication cost when delivering data to multiple mobile sinks.

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FireGuide: A Context-Aware Fire Response Guide for the Building Occupants

Feng

Lin

et al. 2010

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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A durable sensor enabled lifeline support for firefighters

Cited by 11 publications

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A reliable energy-balancing multi-group (REM) routing protocol for firefighter communication networks

A reliable energy-balancing multi-group (REM) routing protocol for firefighter communication networks

Many-to-Many Data Collection for Mobile Users in Wireless Sensor Networks

FireGuide: A Context-Aware Fire Response Guide for the Building Occupants

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