Currently, numerous proprietary communication technologies are used by emergency response personnel to ensure uninterrupted coordination and effective situational awareness, especially when the telecommunication infrastructure ...

Improved situational awareness and public reassurance during the preparedness and response phase of a disaster enable timely and accurate actions that result in decreasing the disaster's impact and, ultimately, safeguarding ...

Drone technology that has the potential to disrupt and augment our quality of life is swiftly evolving. Drones are rapidly growing in popularity and are used in various applications, such as agriculture, emergency response, ...

This paper presents an optimal scheduling for the utilization of the battery energy in order to minimize the cost of the electricity bill in a non-residential building equipped with a photovoltaic-storage system. The battery ...

This work is concerned with the problem of efficient and intelligent message forwarding in wireless networks. This problem arises in many diverse scenarios within ad-hoc networks and especially networks formed during and ...

Road traffic congestion occurs as demand exceeds infrastructure's capacity. In this paper, we propose a continuous-time route reservation architecture to efficiently manage vehicle routing decisions thus to eliminate ...

The flexibility and cost efficiency of traffic monitoring using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has made such a proposition an attractive topic of research. To date, the main focus was placed on the types of sensors used ...

The literature of wireless adhoc networks includes a plethora of alternative dissemination strategies that aim for efficient delivery of data traffic from source to destination. Hence, the majority of these strategies ...

In this paper a unified framework is presented for coordinated multi-drone tasking in emergency response missions. As elaborated in this work, response missions can be broken into a number of distinct tasks that can be ...