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On the Connectivity of a Mobile Ad-Hoc Network for Forest Firefighters

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Orangel Azuaje,

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CHANTS '18: Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Challenged Networks

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3264844.3264851

Published: 01 October 2018 Publication History

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Firefighters often operate in remote areas where there is little to no cellular coverage. In that context, a Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) among a firefighter team would provide a communication infrastructure, e.g., for monitoring, early warnings and basic communication. In this paper, we analyse trajectories simultaneously collected from a firefighter team during a controlled fire exercise, showing that the distance among any two firefighters only rarely exceeds 300~m. We assess connectivity using 802.11g links, which we argue to be a viable commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technology. Results show a probability of being connected to another firefighter larger than 80%, although a few disconnection periods of more than 5 minutes may occur. Finally, we show that the Raspberry Pi (RPi) could be an inexpensive, power-feasible platform to deploy such a network for testing upper layer protocols and applications.

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Inaoka KMurase T(2024)Higher Throughput Ad-Hoc Networks Considering Tree Density in a Forest2024 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE)10.1109/ICCE59016.2024.10444257(1-6)Online publication date: 6-Jan-2024
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Azuaje O(2021)PhD Forum: Delay Guarantees of a Mobile Wireless Sensor Network using Stochastic Network Calculus2021 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)10.1109/WoWMoM51794.2021.00036(221-222)Online publication date: Jun-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM51794.2021.00036

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CHANTS '18: Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Challenged Networks

October 2018

77 pages

ISBN:9781450359269

DOI:10.1145/3264844

Program Chairs:
Marius Feldmann
Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
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Mahbub Hassan
University of New South Wales, Australia

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MobiCom '18: The 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking

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Inaoka KMurase T(2024)Higher Throughput Ad-Hoc Networks Considering Tree Density in a Forest2024 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE)10.1109/ICCE59016.2024.10444257(1-6)Online publication date: 6-Jan-2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE59016.2024.10444257
Azuaje O(2021)PhD Forum: Delay Guarantees of a Mobile Wireless Sensor Network using Stochastic Network Calculus2021 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)10.1109/WoWMoM51794.2021.00036(221-222)Online publication date: Jun-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM51794.2021.00036

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