A Cooperative Emergency Navigation Framework using Mobile Cloud Computing
Huibo Bi, Erol Gelenbe

TL;DR
This paper proposes a cloud-enabled emergency navigation system leveraging smartphones and social potential fields to improve evacuation reliability and resilience, using adaptive routing protocols to extend device battery life.
Contribution
It introduces a novel cooperative framework combining social potential fields and cognitive packet networks for emergency evacuation using smartphones and cloud computing.
Findings
Enhanced evacuation coordination with social potential fields.
Prolonged smartphone battery life through adaptive routing.
Improved communication reliability in emergency scenarios.
Abstract
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…
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Taxonomy
TopicsOpportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks · Mobile Ad Hoc Networks · Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks
