ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Estimation with Applications to Tracking and Navigation
Estimation with Applications to Tracking and Navigation
Architecture and evaluation of an unplanned 802.11b mesh network
Proceedings of the 11th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
MoteLab: a wireless sensor network testbed
IPSN '05 Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Information processing in sensor networks
Modeling mobility in disaster area scenarios
Performance Evaluation
STMP -- Sensor data transmission and management protocol
LCN '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE 36th Conference on Local Computer Networks
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Public safety organizations need robust communication networks to transmit different kind of sensor information. These networks must be reliable even when all infrastructure has been destroyed. Wireless multi-hop networks (such as Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANETs), Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), and Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs)) are supposed to meet the requirements of (1) spontaneous deployment, (2) being independent of any kind of existing infrastructure, and (3) robustness in the sense of self-organization and self-healing by their very definition. These networks have been a topic in research for more than a decade now. Recently, real-world tests and deployments provide valuable insights concerning challenges and future research directions. There are different mesh and WSN testbeds (e.g., [4, 9, 10]) enabling the research community to run tests in static real-world networks. However, concerning public safety requirements, there are significant differences: (1) No spontaneous deployment, (2) no or at least no mobility typical for public safety, (3) no typical applications and traffic for public safety scenarios. Due to these characteristics, developing algorithms and protocols for public safety scenarios and deploying public safety networks is a huge challenge. To overcome this challenge, we developed a prototype based on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware. The prototype comprises typical public safety application and is spontaneously deployable. Furthermore, this prototype enables us to perform evaluations with real public safety endusers, e.g. by deploying the prototype in maneuvers. In our demo, we will demonstrate our COTS-based prototype.