Mobile computing and communications-driven fog-assisted disaster evacuation techniques for context-aware guidance support: A survey

The number of disasters has increased over the past decade where these calamities significantly affect the functionality of communication networks. In the context of 6G, airborne and spaceborne networks offer hope in disaster recovery to serve the underserved and to be resilient in calamities. Therefore, our paper reviews the state-of-the-art literature on post-disaster wireless communication networks and provides insights for the future establishment of such networks. In particular, we first give an overview of the works investigating the general procedures and strategies for facing any large-scale disaster. Then, we present technological solutions for post-disaster communications, such as the recovery of the terrestrial infrastructure, installing aerial networks, and using spaceborne networks. Afterwards, we shed light on the technological aspects of post-disaster networks, primarily the physical and networking issues. We present the literature on channel modeling, coverage and capacity, radio resource management, localization, and energy efficiency in the physical layer part, and discuss the integrated space-air-ground architectures, routing, delay-tolerant/software-defined networks, and edge computing in the networking layer part. This paper also includes interesting simulation results which can provide practical guidelines about the deployment of ad hoc network architectures in emergency scenarios. Finally, we present several promising research directions, namely backhauling, cache-enabled and intelligent reflective surface-enabled networks, placement optimization of aerial base stations (ABSs), and the mobility-related aspects that come into play when deploying aerial networks, such as planning their trajectories and the consequent handovers (HOs).

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“…In addition, the latest advances regarding the Fog-Assisted Disaster Evacuation Service (FADE) architecture can be found in Ref. [17].…”

Section: A Related Surveys and Reviewsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…7]. We recall that a recent review on fog computing can be found in [17]. In emergency scenarios, we strongly believe that content caching can be an important tool to timely share vital information such as safe routes, shelters, and specific safety guidelines.…”

Section: G Content Cachingmentioning

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Post-Disaster Communications: Enabling Technologies, Architectures, and Open Challenges

Matracia

Saeed

Kishk

et al. 2022

IEEE Open J. Commun. Soc.

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“…In addition, the latest advances regarding the Fog-Assisted Disaster Evacuation Service (FADE) architecture can be found in Ref. [16].…”

Section: A Related Surveysmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Wireless technologies for resilient networks [29] Mobility models, MANETs [25] Fog computing, disaster evacuation [16] UAV path planning, network security [19] IoT-enabled flood SAR systems [30] Data-plane recovery mechanisms for packet-switched networks [31] 2022 Paradigms, physical and networking layers, challenges This paper…”

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confidence: 99%

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Post-Disaster Communications: Enabling Technologies, Architectures, and Open Challenges

Matracia¹,

Saeed²,

Kishk³

et al. 2022

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The number of disasters has increased over the past decade where these calamities significantly affect the functionality of communication networks. In the context of 6G, airborne and spaceborne networks offer hope in disaster recovery to serve the underserved and to be resilient in calamities. Therefore, this paper surveys the state-of-the-art literature on post-disaster wireless communication networks and provides insights for the future establishment of such networks. In particular, we first give an overview of the works investigating the general procedures and strategies for counteracting any large-scale disasters. Then, we present the possible technological solutions for post-disaster communications, such as the recovery of the terrestrial infrastructure, installing aerial networks, and using spaceborne networks.Afterward, we shed light on the technological aspects of post-disaster networks, primarily the physical and networking issues. We present the literature on channel modeling, coverage and capacity, radio resource management, localization, and energy efficiency in the physical layer and discuss the integrated space-air-ground architectures, routing, delay-tolerant/software-defined networks, and edge computing in the networking layer. This paper also presents interesting simulation results which can provide practical guidelines about the deployment of ad hoc network architectures in emergency scenarios. Finally, we present several promising research directions, namely backhauling, placement optimization of aerial base stations, and the mobility-related aspects that come into play when deploying aerial networks, such as planning their trajectories and the consequent handovers.Maurilio Matracia and Mohamed-Slim Alouini are with the Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering

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Enabling civil–military collaboration for disaster relief operations in smart city environments

Campioni

Poltronieri²,

Stefanelli³

et al. 2023

Future Generation Computer Systems

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Mobile computing and communications-driven fog-assisted disaster evacuation techniques for context-aware guidance support: A survey

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Enabling civil–military collaboration for disaster relief operations in smart city environments

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