Bringing movable and deployable networks to disaster areas: development and field test of MDRU
Communication demand is paramount for disaster-affected people to confirm safety, seek help, and gather evacuation information. However, the communication infrastructure is likely to be crippled due to a natural disaster, which makes disaster response excruciatingly difficult. Although traditional a...
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Published in | IEEE network Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 86 - 91 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
New York
IEEE
01.01.2016
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) |
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Summary: | Communication demand is paramount for disaster-affected people to confirm safety, seek help, and gather evacuation information. However, the communication infrastructure is likely to be crippled due to a natural disaster, which makes disaster response excruciatingly difficult. Although traditional approaches can partially fulfill the most important requirements from the user perspective, including prompt deployment, high capacity, large coverage, useful disaster-time application, and carrier-free usability, a complete solution that provides all those features is still required. Our collaborative research and development group has developed the Movable and Deployable Resource Unit, which is referred to as the MDRU and has been proven to have all those required features. Via extensive field tests using a compact version of an MDRU (i.e., the van-type MDRU), we verify the effectiveness of the MDRU-based disaster recovery network. Moreover, we demonstrate the further improvement of the MDRU's performance when it is complemented by other technologies such as relay-by-smartphone or satellites. |
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ISSN: | 0890-8044 1558-156X |
DOI: | 10.1109/MNET.2016.7389836 |