A rapidly deployable disaster communications system for developing countries

D. Jalihal; R. D. Koilpillai; P. Khawas; S. Sampoornam; Sree Hari Nagarajan; Keiji Takeda; Kotaro Kataoka

doi:10.1109/ICC.2012.6364929

A rapidly deployable disaster communications system for developing countries

D. Jalihal, R. D. Koilpillai, P. Khawas, S. Sampoornam, Sree Hari Nagarajan, Keiji Takeda, Kotaro Kataoka

Faculty of Environment and Information Studies

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Abstract

We address the problem of designing a communication system for deploying under disaster situations where the pre-disaster communication infrastructure has been uprooted. The disaster communication system is required to aid in rescue effort by providing text, voice, and video communication links between the field worker and the operation center. It is also required to provide some communication services to the affected citizens so that the overwhelming demands made on the communication infrastructure during the times of disaster are mitigated to some extent. The other highlights of the design are its low-cost nature by exploiting the economies of scale and the fact that basic mobile phones with text-only features are widely available in developing countries.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2012
Pages	6339-6343
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2012.6364929
Publication status	Published - 2012 Dec 1
Event	2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2012 - Ottawa, ON, Canada Duration: 2012 Jun 10 → 2012 Jun 15

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Name	IEEE International Conference on Communications
ISSN (Print)	1550-3607

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Other	2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2012
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Ottawa, ON
Period	12/6/10 → 12/6/15

Keywords

Citizen Services
Disaster Communication System
Network Architecture

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Computer Networks and Communications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Jalihal, D., Koilpillai, R. D., Khawas, P., Sampoornam, S., Nagarajan, S. H., Takeda, K., & Kataoka, K. (2012). A rapidly deployable disaster communications system for developing countries. In 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2012 (pp. 6339-6343). [6364929] (IEEE International Conference on Communications). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2012.6364929

Jalihal, D, Koilpillai, RD, Khawas, P, Sampoornam, S, Nagarajan, SH, Takeda, K & Kataoka, K 2012, A rapidly deployable disaster communications system for developing countries. in 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2012., 6364929, IEEE International Conference on Communications, pp. 6339-6343, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2012, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 12/6/10. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2012.6364929

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