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A Cooperative Emergency Navigation Framework Using Mobile Cloud Computing

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Information Sciences and Systems 2014

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The use of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for emergency navigation systems suffer disadvantages such as limited computing capacity, restricted battery power and high likelihood of malfunction due to the harsh physical environment. By making use of the powerful sensing ability of smart phones, this paper presents a cloud-enabled emergency navigation framework to guide evacuees in a coordinated manner and improve the reliability and resilience in both communication and localization. By using social potential fields (SPF), evacuees form clusters during an evacuation process and are directed to egresses with the aid of a Cognitive Packet Networks (CPN)-based algorithm. Rather than just rely on the conventional telecommunications infrastructures, we suggest an Ad hoc Cognitive Packet Network (AHCPN)-based protocol to prolong the life time of smart phones, that adaptively searches optimal communication routes between portable devices and the egress node that provides access to a cloud server with respect to the remaining battery power of smart phones and the time latency.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Intelligent Systems and Networks Group, Imperial College, London, England

    Huibo Bi & Erol Gelenbe

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    Erol Gelenbe

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Bi, H., Gelenbe, E. (2014). A Cooperative Emergency Navigation Framework Using Mobile Cloud Computing. In: Czachórski, T., Gelenbe, E., Lent, R. (eds) Information Sciences and Systems 2014. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09465-6_5

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