IEICE Transactions on Communications
Online ISSN : 1745-1345
Print ISSN : 0916-8516
Special Section on Wireless Distributed Networks
A Novel Emergency Rescue Urgent Communications for Sharing Evacuation Support Information in Panic-Type Disasters
Tomotaka WADAAkinori YAMANEKazuhiro OHTSUKIHiromi OKADA
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2010 Volume E93.B Issue 12 Pages 3429-3437

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Many people have suffered and died due to a lot of large-scale disasters such as earthquake, fire, and terrorism, etc. In disasters where most evacuators become panic, two things are necessary for their immediate evacuation. The first is to estimate the location of the disaster occurrence. The second is to construct an evacuation support system that searches for safe and efficient evacuation routes. In this paper, we propose Emergency Rescue Urgent Communication — Evacuation Support System (EUC-ESS) based on Mobile Ad-hoc networks (MANET) composed of many mobile terminals. Using experiments and computer simulations, we show that this system would support evacuators in determining appropriate routes for survivors.

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