Disastrous events are one of the most challenging applications of multihop ad hoc networks
due to possible damages of existing telecommunication infrastructure. The deployed cellular …

Disaster management is a crucial and urgent research issue. Emergency communication
networks (ECNs) provide fundamental functions for disaster management, because …

Broadcast or flooding is a dissemination technique of paramount importance in wireless ad
hoc networks. The broadcast scheme is widely used within routing protocols by a wide …

Forwarding data in scenarios where devices have sporadic connectivity is a challenge. An
example scenario is a disaster area, where forwarding information generated in the incident …

With the widespread use of IoT applications and the increasing trend in the number of
connected smart devices, the concept of routing has become very challenging. In this …

In this paper, we investigate how to network smart-phones for providing communications in
disaster recovery. By bridging the gaps among different kinds of wireless networks, we have …

In this paper, we investigate how to network smartphones for providing communications in
disaster recovery. By bridging the gaps among different kinds of wireless networks, we have …

A mobile Ad Hoc network (MANET) is a collection of wireless mobile nodes that can
dynamically configure a network without a fixed infrastructure or central administration. This …

Reliable and efficient transmission of emergency calls during a massive network failure is
both an indispensable and challenging task. In this paper, we propose a novel fully 3GPP …

Mobile ad-hoc communication is a demonstrated solution to mitigate the impact of
infrastructure failures during large-scale disasters. A very complex issue in this domain is the …