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2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Emergency Evacuation using Wireless Sensor Networks
—This paper presents a distributed algorithm to direct evacuees to exits through arbitrarily complex building layouts in emergency situations. The algorithm finds the safest pat...
Matthew Barnes, Hugh Leather, D. K. Arvind
MDM
2010
Springer
213views Communications» more  MDM 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
Towards Adaptive Sensor Data Management for Distributed Fire Evacuation Infrastructure
— We introduce a novel strategy for data processing in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in the case of emergency fire evacuation with stringent delay constraints. Such networks sh...
Andrii Cherniak, Vladimir Zadorozhny
TASE
2008
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
Group Elevator Scheduling With Advance Information for Normal and Emergency Modes
Group elevator scheduling has long been recognized as an important problem for building transportation efficiency, since unsatisfactory elevator service is one of the major complai...
Peter B. Luh, Bo Xiong, Shi-Chung Chang
SSD
2005
Springer
188views Database» more  SSD 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
Capacity Constrained Routing Algorithms for Evacuation Planning: A Summary of Results
Abstract. Evacuation planning is critical for numerous important applications, e.g. disaster emergency management and homeland defense preparation. Efficient tools are needed to pr...
Qingsong Lu, Betsy George, Shashi Shekhar
CACM
2008
84views more  CACM 2008»
13 years 5 months ago
The emergence of a networking primitive in wireless sensor networks
The wireless sensor network community approached netabstractions as an open question, allowing answers to emerge with time and experience. The Trickle algorithm has become a basic...
Philip Levis, Eric A. Brewer, David E. Culler, Dav...