Research Article
Relay Communication Solutions for First Responders
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-97603-3_8, author={Tiago Rocha da Silva and Lu\^{\i}s Fernandes and Jos\^{e} Gon\`{e}alves and Paulo Chaves and Vasco Bexiga}, title={Relay Communication Solutions for First Responders}, proceedings={Intelligent Transport Systems. 5th EAI International Conference, INTSYS 2021, Virtual Event, November 24-26, 2021, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={INTSYS}, year={2022}, month={3}, keywords={Mesh network First Responder Resilient network Relay communication Extending the communication Transmitting wearable data 80211s}, doi={10.1007/978-3-030-97603-3_8} }- Tiago Rocha da Silva
Luís Fernandes
José Gonçalves
Paulo Chaves
Vasco Bexiga
Year: 2022
Relay Communication Solutions for First Responders
INTSYS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-97603-3_8
Abstract
First Responders (FRs) frequently intervene in dangerous environments, result of natural catastrophes, technological disaster or terrorist attacks, for that it is crucial to maintain their protection and operational effectiveness, namely their capacity in terms of situational awareness and communication in adverse situations. In the event of a disaster, communication networks may not be available at all, different reasons e.g. infrastructure collapse, denial of service or even the area of the incident may not be covered by communication services. This paper presents innovate project to respond to emergencies, focus on a resilient network solution easy to be deployed, to mitigate this problem and extent the existent communication networks. The solution uses nodes to relay communications from the nearest point to a farthest point with live communications, permitting long range communication of FR’s wearable sensor data. The nodes can be installed in UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), mounted on the ground on tripods or even on UGVs (Unmanned Ground Vehicle), the solution is modular and auto-configurable. The core/backbone of the Wireless Resilient communication network is supported in Mesh topology (802.11s), that provides any-to-any connections between nodes, these nodes can be dynamically added or removed, the network will always try to find a path to deliver data, each node is also simultaneously Wi-Fi Access Point (802.11n).
