ANT: Deadline-Aware Adaptive Emergency Navigation Strategy for Dynamic Hazardous Ship Evacuation With Wireless Sensor Networks

Ma, Yuting; Liu, Kezhong; Chen, Mozi; Ma, Jian; Zeng, Xuming; Wang, Kehao; Liu, Cong

doi:10.1109/access.2020.3011545

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“…In [ 111 , 112 ], the authors claim that accurate and pervasive positioning in cruiser ships improves the response to incidents. For example, it can help evacuation routing to reduce hazards during incidents [ 113 ]. Other relevant tasks are detecting and counting the workforce in ships’ bridges for safety watchkeeping [ 114 ].…”

Section: Some Comments On the Deployment Of Plps And Application Scen...mentioning

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On Power Line Positioning Systems

Lovisolo

Cruz–Roldán

Blanco–Velasco

2022

Sensors

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Power line infrastructure is available almost everywhere. Positioning systems aim to estimate where a device or target is. Consequently, there may be an opportunity to use power lines for positioning purposes. This survey article reports the different efforts, working principles, and possibilities for implementing positioning systems relying on power line infrastructure for Power Line Positioning Systems (PLPS). Since Power Line Communication (PLC) systems of different characteristics have been deployed to provide communication services using the existing mains, we also address how PLC systems may be employed to build positioning systems. Although some efforts exist, PLPS are still prospective and thus open to research and development, and we try to indicate the possible directions and potential applications for PLPS.

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Section: Some Comments On the Deployment Of Plps And Application Scen...mentioning

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On Power Line Positioning Systems

Lovisolo

Cruz–Roldán

Blanco–Velasco

2022

Sensors

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“…A smart evacuation strategy based on simulated annealing by proper balancing the crowd density and movement is proposed in [204], which promises to provide efficient and fast evacuation of people in an emergency. In [205], authors proposed ANT, a deadline-aware adaptive emergency navigation strategy for dynamic hazardous ship evacuation with WSNs, which informs each passenger about a hazard-avoided evacuation path to successfully reach the lifeboats within the specified deadline under all circumstances. ANT also analyses the process of a ship capsizing to predict the specific limited evacuation time and the worst-case traversal delay.…”

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A Comprehensive Survey of Emergency Communication Network and Management

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Arif

Roy

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Wireless Pers Commun

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The performance of wireless communication network is important in emergency rescue operations while ensuring optimum usage of limited wireless resources. Due to the disruption of normal wireless communication in a post-disaster scenario, the sustenance of an emergency communication network plays a significant role in relief operations. Under such a scenario, it becomes crucial to monitor the performance and reliability of the protocol in a time-bound manner. Some of the prominent challenges faced by the communication network during this period are related to energy efficiency, resources allocation, reliable connectivity, QoS, network throughput, and interoperability. A comprehensive performance appraisal of the emergency network considering the above-mentioned aspects is extremely important. This review provides a comprehensive survey of the widely used communication technologies applied for setting up an emergency communication network to mitigate the post disaster aftermath. The article also delivers an overview of the integration of new technologies with the existing standards for improving the performance of the disaster communication networks. Finally, we propose some promising solutions to overcome the limitations of existing emergency communication technologies to improve the overall network performance.

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“…Thus, this paper uses the Adaptive Navigation Strategy (ANS) evacuation algorithm, an extension of Rapid Routing with Guaranteed Delay Bounds [ 36 ], which was previously named ANT in [ 37 ], creating potential confusion with other well-known “ant colony” optimization techniques. ANS incorporates a guaranteed exit deadline bound, for each evacuee in each location.…”

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Impact of IoT System Imperfections and Passenger Errors on Cruise Ship Evacuation Delay

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Gelenbe,

Liu

2024

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Cruise ships and other naval vessels include automated Internet of Things (IoT)-based evacuation systems for the passengers and crew to assist them in case of emergencies and accidents. The technical challenges of assisting passengers and crew to safety during emergencies include various aspects such as sensor failures, imperfections in the sound or display systems that are used to direct evacuees, the timely selection of optimum evacuation routes for the evacuees, as well as computation and communication delays that may occur in the IoT infrastructure due to intense activities during an emergency. In addition, during an emergency, the evacuees may be confused or in a panic, and may make mistakes in following the directions offered by the evacuation system. Therefore, the purpose of this work is to analyze the effect of two important aspects that can have an adverse effect on the passengers’ evacuation time, namely (a) the computer processing and communication delays, and (b) the errors that may be made by the evacuees in following instructions. The approach we take uses simulation with a representative existing cruise ship model, which dynamically computes the best exit paths for each passenger, with a deadline-driven Adaptive Navigation Strategy (ANS). Our simulation results reveal that delays in the evacuees’ reception of instructions can significantly increase the total time needed for passenger evacuation. In contrast, we observe that passenger behavior errors also affect the evacuation duration, but with less effect on the total time needed to evacuate passengers. These findings demonstrate the importance of the design of passenger evacuation systems in a way that takes into account all realistic features of the ship’s indoor evacuation environment, including the importance of having high-performance data processing and communication systems that will not result in congestion and communication delays.

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ANT: Deadline-Aware Adaptive Emergency Navigation Strategy for Dynamic Hazardous Ship Evacuation With Wireless Sensor Networks

Cited by 11 publications

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A Comprehensive Survey of Emergency Communication Network and Management

Impact of IoT System Imperfections and Passenger Errors on Cruise Ship Evacuation Delay

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