A Multi-tier Communication Scheme for Drone-assisted Disaster Recovery Scenarios

Mezghani, Farouk; Kortoçi, Pranvera; Mitton, Nathalie; Francesco, Mario Di

doi:10.1109/pimrc.2019.8904140

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“…Communication schemes for multi-tier UAV-assisted networks for disaster recovery scenarios are considered by Mezghani et al in [18]. Similar to our work, the authors leverage the ubiquity of smartphones to assist search and rescue operations after a natural disaster occurs.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 81%

HIRO-NET: Heterogeneous Intelligent Robotic Network for Internet Sharing in Disaster Scenarios

Ferranti

Bonati

Cuomo

et al. 2022

IEEE Trans. on Mobile Comput.

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This article describes HIRO-NET, an Heterogeneous Intelligent Robotic Network. HIRO-NET is an emergency infrastructure-less network that aims to address the problem of providing connectivity in the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster, where no cellular or wide area network is operational and no Internet access is available. HIRO-NET establishes a two-tier wireless mesh network where the Lower Tier connects nearby survivors in a self-organized mesh via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and the Upper Tier creates long-range VHF links between autonomous robots exploring the disaster stricken area. HIRO-NET's main goal is to enable users in the disaster area to exchange text messages to share critical information and request help from rst responders. The mesh network discovery problem is analyzed and a network protocol speci cally designed to facilitate the exploration process is presented. We show how HIRO-NET robots successfully discover, bridge and interconnect local mesh networks. Results show that the Lower Tier always reaches network convergence and the Upper Tier can virtually extend HIRO-NET functionalities to the range of a small metropolitan area. In the event of an Internet connection still being available to some user, HIRO-NET is able to opportunistically share and provide access to low data-rate services (e.g., Twitter, Gmail) to the whole network. Results suggest that a temporary emergency network to cover a metropolitan area can be created in tens of minutes.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 81%

HIRO-NET: Heterogeneous Intelligent Robotic Network for Internet Sharing in Disaster Scenarios

Ferranti

Bonati

Cuomo

et al. 2022

IEEE Trans. on Mobile Comput.

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“…In the first case, if there are multiple communicating devices, it is possible to consider DPS with energy conservation as a goal. A similar idea in dronebased disaster recovery scenario is proposed in [68] where the uplink TP is selected from the UEs while taking into consideration their remaining battery lives. On the other hand, energy harvesting using simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) and TP sleeping are the two prevalent approaches for the second case.…”

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confidence: 99%

Generalized Coordinated Multipoint Framework for 5G and Beyond

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The characteristic feature of 5G and beyond networks is the diversity of services, which is required to support different user needs. However, the requirements for these services are often competing in nature, which impresses the necessity of a coordinated and flexible network architecture. Although coordinated multipoint (CoMP) systems were primarily proposed to improve the cell edge performance in 4G, their collaborative nature can be leveraged to support the diverse requirements and enabling technologies of 5G and beyond networks. To this end, we propose the generalization of CoMP to a proactive and efficient resource management framework capable of supporting different user requirements such as reliability, latency, throughput, and security while considering network constraints. This article elaborates on the multiple aspects, inputs, and outputs of the generalized CoMP (GCoMP) framework. Apart from user requirements, the GCoMP decision mechanism also considers the CoMP scenario and network architecture to decide upon outputs such as CoMP scheme or appropriate coordinating clusters. To enable easier understanding of the concept, a case study illustrating the effect of different combinations of GCoMP framework's outputs on varying user requirements is presented.INDEX TERMS 5G, 6G, backhaul, clustering, coordinated multipoint (CoMP), energy efficiency, flexibility, generalized CoMP (GCoMP), multi-TRP MIMO, quality of service (QoS), radio resource management (RRM).

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“…COPE-FLY approaches consider that only representative nodes elected based on the COPE-FLY approach described in Section V are visited while other approaches visit all survivor nodes. Complete evaluation and comparison of these approaches are available in [12].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Our global architecture enables bi-directional communications and allows the individual devices to save their energy as much as possible. It is based on our previous work [12], [13]. This paper presents this systemic architecture together with the evaluation of its components and derives some related open challenges.…”

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The potential of cooperative communications to speed up disaster relief operations

Mezghani

Mitton

2019

2019 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management (ICT-DM)

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This paper proposes FLY-COPE, a complete selforganization architecture that relies on cooperative communications and drone-assisted data collection, allowing a fast location of victims and rescuing operation organization in disaster relief operation. FLY-COPE mainly combines two components: i) a ground component that spontaneously emerges from any communicating devices (piece of infrastructure, mobile phone, etc) that cooperate to alert rescuers and remain all alive as long as possible and ii) an aerial component comprising UAV to communicate efficiently with ground devices. We show by simulation and/or by experimentation that each component of FLY-COPE allows substantial energy saving for efficient and fast disaster response.

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A Multi-tier Communication Scheme for Drone-assisted Disaster Recovery Scenarios

Cited by 12 publications

References 27 publications

HIRO-NET: Heterogeneous Intelligent Robotic Network for Internet Sharing in Disaster Scenarios

HIRO-NET: Heterogeneous Intelligent Robotic Network for Internet Sharing in Disaster Scenarios

Generalized Coordinated Multipoint Framework for 5G and Beyond

The potential of cooperative communications to speed up disaster relief operations

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