Event-Based Interaction for Rescue and Emergency Applications in Mobile and Disruptive Environments

Abstract

Rescue operations may occur in environments where there is no communication infrastructure or where the infrastructure has been damaged by the incident itself. In addition to, or as a replacement to radio and telephones, handheld PDA-like devices can be used at the rescue site for communication. Such devices run applications and can spontaneously form a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) using their wireless network interfaces. The purpose of setting up such a network is to exchange aBsTRaCT