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Disasters occur in short time periods and are usually unexpected,
leaving in their wake large numbers of casualties and severe
infrastructure damages. These disasters can be due to natural
causes (earthquakes, fires, floods, hurricanes, epidemics or
combinations of thereof) or manmade (industrial accidents,
terrorism and war). Essential communications breakdown is one of
the common characteristics of all disasters. The partial or
complete failure of telecommunications infrastructure leads to
preventable loss of life and damage to property, by causing delays
and errors in emergency response and disaster relief efforts.
Despite the increasing reliability and resiliency of modern
telecommunications networks to physical damage, the risk associated
with communications failures still remains serious because of
growing dependence upon these tools in emergency operations.
Coordinated relief to the affected areas needs to be given as soon
as possible, so to minimize further nefarious effects. In such
scenarios it is vital that communications between interested
parties, i.e. relief and security groups, are established as
quickly and as easily as possible, ideally in a plug & play or
zero configuration fashion. The acknowledgment that
infrastructure-based networks in such deployment areas may be
destroyed raises the need for new alternatives and communication
paradigms, ideally infrastructure-less, and for decentralized
wireless technologies. Technical topics discussed in the book
include, within the domain of Telecommunications in Disaster
Areas:- * System Engineering, Power and Communication
Infrastructure; * Self-Organizing, Cognitive and Location-aware
Networks; * Public Safety Scenarios Modelling; * Inter-Network
Interoperability; * Networks of Mobile Robots. Content *
Introduction; * Systems Engineering Methodology for the Development
of Disaster Tolerant Networks; * Power Supply and Communications
Infrastructure Issues in Disaster Areas; * Self-Organizing
Cognitive Disaster Relief Networks; * Modeling Public Safety
Scenarios for Emergency Communication Systems; * Inter-Network
Operability/Multi-System Resource Sharing Method for Disaster
Relief; * Location-Aware Cognitive Communication Systems for Public
Safety; * Networks of Mobile Robots for Rescue Operations;
Bibliography.
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