Easy Wireless: broadband ad-hoc networking for emergency services
Maurits de Graaf, Hans van den Berg, Richard J. Boucherie, Frank Brouwer, Irene de Bruin, Herman Elfrink, Irene Fernandez-Diaz, Sonia Heemstra de Groot, Roland de Haan, Jan de Jongh, Sindo Nunez, Jan-Kees C. W. van Ommeren, Frank Roijers, Jan Stemerdink, Erik Tromp · University of Twente Research Information · 2007
Wireless ad-hoc networks will enable emergency services to continuously overview and act upon the actual status of the situation by retrieving and exchanging detailed up-to-date information between the rescue workers. Deployment of high-bandwidth, robust, self-organising ad-hoc networks will enable quicker response to typical what/where/when questions, than the more vulnerable low-bandwidth communication networks currently in use. This paper addresses a number of results of the Easy Wireless project that enable high bandwidth robust ad-hoc networking. Most of the concepts presented here have been experimentally verified and/or prototyped.