Ideas on EWS

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Ideas

Terminology

  • Disaster Management: A set of actions and processes designed to lessen disastrous effects either before, during and after a disaster [11].

Requirements

  • Robust
  • Decentralized: No single point of failure
  • Cheap
  • Timeliness: Online and Real-Time
  • Opportunistic
  • Scalability
  • Networking interconnection (internal/external)
  • Self-organization
  • Unplanned (spontaneous) deployment
  • dependability and accuracy
  • Persistant storage
  • Priorization of processing tasks
  • ...

Application Domain: Early Warning for Earthquakes (Natural Disasters)

  • Possible areas: Istanbul, Bucarest, ...
  • Finely meshed network
  • Long distance interconnection
  • Online monitoring and processing
  • Alarming (Early warning, Interrupt supplies)
  • Storage of historical data
  • Before and after disaster infrastructure
  • Online shake-maps
  • Typical processing patterns??

Additional Services

  • public internet access,
  • email delivery
  • toll collection for the usage of roads
  • ...

OTS Hardware/Software

  • cheap COTS Router
  • cheap COTS Sensosr Hardware
  • IEEE 802.11 license-free radio
  • BRN
  • Linux/Click/...

Constrains

in

  • processing time,
  • computing power,
  • memory,
  • storage,
  • networking bandwidth and
  • latency

Topics

  • Connectivity
  • Self Organization
  • Base Services

Further Information

Projects

Disaster Management

Early Warning

Wireless Sensor Networks

  • [31] Robert, Szewczyk, J. Polastre, A. Mainwaring, and D. Culler: Lessons from a sensor network expedition. Proc. 1st European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN ’04), January 2004.
  • [32] J. Hill, R. Szewczyk, A. Woo, S. Hollar, D. E. Culler, and K. S. J. Pister: System architecture directions for networked sensors. Proc. the 9th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Boston, MA, USA, Nov. 2000, pp. 93–104.
  • [33] Levis, Patel, Shenker, Culler: Trickle: A self-regulating algorithm for code propagation and maintenance in wireless sensor networks. Proc. the First USENIX/ACM Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2004.
  • [34] Woo, Tong, Culler: Taming the underlying challenges of reliable multihop routing in sensor networks. Proc. the First ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2003), November 2003.
  • [35] Murat Demirbas. Wireless Sensor Networks for Monitoring of Large Public Buildings. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo. Technical Report 2005. [1], (cached pdf).

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