TY - GEN
T1 - Self-adaptive and resilient urban networking infrastructure for disasters and smart city services
AU - Flikkema, Paul G.
AU - Vigil-Hayes, Morgan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/7/1
Y1 - 2017/7/1
N2 - When a disaster strikes a city, conventional information networking infrastructure can be damaged or completely lost, leading to suffering or loss of life. These consequences are avoidable with the introduction of an urban networking fabric for emergency services. We describe here an overall design for a Network for Urban Emergency Services (NUES) that provides essential communication services during disasters and post-disaster recovery. The core of NUES is a dense wireless networking fabric composed of low-cost wireless nodes. Because each node is autonomously powered, and NUES takes advantage of satellite networking services, the overall NUES architecture can be independent of all other (conventional) infrastructure, depending only on users' battery-powered devices (such as cell phones or tablets) and satellite data services. But it also has the ability to exploit conventional infrastructure (in particular cellular wireless) to reduce cost and provide greater bandwidth to users. Since some NUES nodes themselves may be damaged or lost, NUES is also designed for resilience, with redundant nodes connected by a self-healing network. Due to its dense coverage and modular node architecture, NUES also provides smart city sensing services the year around, greatly increasing its cost efficiency.
AB - When a disaster strikes a city, conventional information networking infrastructure can be damaged or completely lost, leading to suffering or loss of life. These consequences are avoidable with the introduction of an urban networking fabric for emergency services. We describe here an overall design for a Network for Urban Emergency Services (NUES) that provides essential communication services during disasters and post-disaster recovery. The core of NUES is a dense wireless networking fabric composed of low-cost wireless nodes. Because each node is autonomously powered, and NUES takes advantage of satellite networking services, the overall NUES architecture can be independent of all other (conventional) infrastructure, depending only on users' battery-powered devices (such as cell phones or tablets) and satellite data services. But it also has the ability to exploit conventional infrastructure (in particular cellular wireless) to reduce cost and provide greater bandwidth to users. Since some NUES nodes themselves may be damaged or lost, NUES is also designed for resilience, with redundant nodes connected by a self-healing network. Due to its dense coverage and modular node architecture, NUES also provides smart city sensing services the year around, greatly increasing its cost efficiency.
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U2 - 10.1109/BigData.2017.8258424
DO - 10.1109/BigData.2017.8258424
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85047746221
T3 - Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2017
SP - 4074
EP - 4079
BT - Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2017
A2 - Nie, Jian-Yun
A2 - Obradovic, Zoran
A2 - Suzumura, Toyotaro
A2 - Ghosh, Rumi
A2 - Nambiar, Raghunath
A2 - Wang, Chonggang
A2 - Zang, Hui
A2 - Baeza-Yates, Ricardo
A2 - Baeza-Yates, Ricardo
A2 - Hu, Xiaohua
A2 - Kepner, Jeremy
A2 - Cuzzocrea, Alfredo
A2 - Tang, Jian
A2 - Toyoda, Masashi
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 5th IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2017
Y2 - 11 December 2017 through 14 December 2017
ER -