Providing Internet Access for Post-Disaster Communications using Balloon Networks

Rengaraju, Perumalraja; Sethuramalingam, Kamalesh; Lung, Chung-Horng

doi:10.1145/3479240.3488497

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“…More recently, Ref. [67] compared various technologies and promoted the use of WiFi balloon to access social networks in the occurrence of a calamity.…”

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“…Cluster localization, UAV path planning [55] Swift communication recovery, time-weighted coverage [56] Rate, coverage, D2D [57] 2021 WiFi balloons, social network [67] Deployment, resource allocation [52] Topological aspects, capacity, types of fleets [48] Using space networks 2013 LTE-satellite and radio interface [69] Satellite-gateway links and WINDS [70] SDR-VSAT systems and coverage [71] 2015 Satellite-LTE integration for disaster recovery [72] 2019…”

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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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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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“…More recently, Ref. [67] compared various technologies and promoted the use of WiFi balloon to access social networks in the occurrence of a calamity.…”

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confidence: 99%

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

Matracia

Saeed

Kishk

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IEEE Open J. Commun. Soc.

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“…More recently, Ref. [60] compared various technologies and promoted the use of WiFi balloon to access social networks in the occurrence of a calamity.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Cluster localization, UAV path planning [48] Swift communication recovery, time-weighted coverage [49] Rate, coverage, D2D [50] 2021 WiFi balloons, social network [60] Deployment, resource allocation [45] Topological aspects, capacity, types of fleets [41] Using space networks 2013 LTE-satellite and radio interface [63] Satellite-gateway links and WINDS [64] SDR-VSAT systems and coverage [68] 2019…”

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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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“…The communication between IoRT devices can be provided by 4G/LTE/5G and beyond cellular communication, which can be the heterogeneous network (HetNet) [ 11 ]. Residents in the affected area are unable to express their demands and circumstances when regular IoRT/IoT networks are substantially compromised due to the disaster [ 12 , 13 ]. However, victims frequently require essential services, for example, food, water, medical assistance, and shelter, which must be rapidly arranged within 72 h after the disaster to save lives and mitigate losses.…”

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Mobility-Aware Resource Allocation in IoRT Network for Post-Disaster Communications with Parameterized Reinforcement Learning

Kabir

Tham

Chang

et al. 2023

Sensors

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Natural disasters, including earthquakes, floods, landslides, tsunamis, wildfires, and hurricanes, have become more common in recent years due to rapid climate change. For Post-Disaster Management (PDM), authorities deploy various types of user equipment (UE) for the search and rescue operation, for example, search and rescue robots, drones, medical robots, smartphones, etc., via the Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) supported by cellular 4G/LTE/5G and beyond or other wireless technologies. For uninterrupted communication services, movable and deployable resource units (MDRUs) have been utilized where the base stations are damaged due to the disaster. In addition, power optimization of the networks by satisfying the quality of service (QoS) of each UE is a crucial challenge because of the electricity crisis after the disaster. In order to optimize the energy efficiency, UE throughput, and serving cell (SC) throughput by considering the stationary as well as movable UE without knowing the environmental priori knowledge in MDRUs aided two-tier heterogeneous networks (HetsNets) of IoRT, the optimization problem has been formulated based on emitting power allocation and user association combinedly in this article. This optimization problem is nonconvex and NP-hard where parameterized (discrete: user association and continuous: power allocation) action space is deployed. The new model-free hybrid action space-based algorithm called multi-pass deep Q network (MP-DQN) is developed to optimize this complex problem. Simulations results demonstrate that the proposed MP-DQN outperforms the parameterized deep Q network (P-DQN) approach, which is well known for solving parameterized action space, DQN, as well as traditional algorithms in terms of reward, average energy efficiency, UE throughput, and SC throughput for motionless as well as moveable UE.

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Providing Internet Access for Post-Disaster Communications using Balloon Networks

Cited by 5 publications

References 16 publications

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

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

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

Mobility-Aware Resource Allocation in IoRT Network for Post-Disaster Communications with Parameterized Reinforcement Learning

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