Collab-SAR: A Collaborative Avalanche Search-and-Rescue Missions Exploiting Hostile Alpine Networks
Every year, Alpine experiences a considerable number of avalanches causing danger to visitor and saviors, where most of the existing techniques to mitigate the number of fatalities in such hostile environments are based on a non-collaborative approach and is time- and effort-inefficient. A recently...
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| author | Md Arafatur Rahman Saiful Azad A. Taufiq Asyhari Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan Khoirul Anwar |
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| description | Every year, Alpine experiences a considerable number of avalanches causing danger to visitor and saviors, where most of the existing techniques to mitigate the number of fatalities in such hostile environments are based on a non-collaborative approach and is time- and effort-inefficient. A recently completed European project on Smart collaboration between Humans and ground-aErial Robots for imProving rescuing activities in Alpine environments (SHERPA) has proposed a novel collaborative approach to improve the rescuing activities. To be an integral part of the SHERPA framework, this paper considers deployment of an air-ground collaborative wireless network (AGCWN) to support search and rescue (SAR) missions in hostile alpine environments. We propose a network infrastructure for such challenging environments by considering the available network components, hostility of the environments, scenarios, and requirements. The proposed infrastructure also considers two degrees of quality of service, in terms of high throughput and long coverage range, to enable timely delivery of videos and images of the long patrolled area, which is the key in any searching and rescuing mission. We also incorporate a probabilistic search technique, which is suitable for collaborative search assuming AGCWN infrastructure for sharing information. The effectiveness of the proposed infrastructure and collaborative search technique, referred to as Collab-SAR, is demonstrated via a series of computer simulations. The results confirm the effectiveness of the proposal. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1160dee0736f4314a65297595e20b1d52022-12-21T20:01:15ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362018-01-016420944210710.1109/ACCESS.2018.28483668398223Collab-SAR: A Collaborative Avalanche Search-and-Rescue Missions Exploiting Hostile Alpine NetworksMd Arafatur Rahman0Saiful Azad1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6234-7267A. Taufiq Asyhari2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3023-8285Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9513-9990Khoirul Anwar4Faculty of Computer Systems & Software Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Kuantan, MalaysiaFaculty of Computer Systems & Software Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Kuantan, MalaysiaCentre for Electronic Warfare, Information and Cyber, Cranfield University, Defence Academy of the U.K., Shrivenham, U.K.Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Fordham University, New York, NY, USACenter for Advanced Wireless Technologies, School of Electrical Engineering, Telkom University, Bandung, IndonesiaEvery year, Alpine experiences a considerable number of avalanches causing danger to visitor and saviors, where most of the existing techniques to mitigate the number of fatalities in such hostile environments are based on a non-collaborative approach and is time- and effort-inefficient. A recently completed European project on Smart collaboration between Humans and ground-aErial Robots for imProving rescuing activities in Alpine environments (SHERPA) has proposed a novel collaborative approach to improve the rescuing activities. To be an integral part of the SHERPA framework, this paper considers deployment of an air-ground collaborative wireless network (AGCWN) to support search and rescue (SAR) missions in hostile alpine environments. We propose a network infrastructure for such challenging environments by considering the available network components, hostility of the environments, scenarios, and requirements. The proposed infrastructure also considers two degrees of quality of service, in terms of high throughput and long coverage range, to enable timely delivery of videos and images of the long patrolled area, which is the key in any searching and rescuing mission. We also incorporate a probabilistic search technique, which is suitable for collaborative search assuming AGCWN infrastructure for sharing information. The effectiveness of the proposed infrastructure and collaborative search technique, referred to as Collab-SAR, is demonstrated via a series of computer simulations. The results confirm the effectiveness of the proposal.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8398223/Air-ground collaborative wireless networkalpine scenariosunmanned aerial robotsunmanned ground vehiclesWiMAXα-level probabilistic search technique |
| spellingShingle | Md Arafatur Rahman Saiful Azad A. Taufiq Asyhari Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan Khoirul Anwar Collab-SAR: A Collaborative Avalanche Search-and-Rescue Missions Exploiting Hostile Alpine Networks IEEE Access Air-ground collaborative wireless network alpine scenarios unmanned aerial robots unmanned ground vehicles WiMAX α-level probabilistic search technique |
| title | Collab-SAR: A Collaborative Avalanche Search-and-Rescue Missions Exploiting Hostile Alpine Networks |
| title_full | Collab-SAR: A Collaborative Avalanche Search-and-Rescue Missions Exploiting Hostile Alpine Networks |
| title_fullStr | Collab-SAR: A Collaborative Avalanche Search-and-Rescue Missions Exploiting Hostile Alpine Networks |
| title_full_unstemmed | Collab-SAR: A Collaborative Avalanche Search-and-Rescue Missions Exploiting Hostile Alpine Networks |
| title_short | Collab-SAR: A Collaborative Avalanche Search-and-Rescue Missions Exploiting Hostile Alpine Networks |
| title_sort | collab sar a collaborative avalanche search and rescue missions exploiting hostile alpine networks |
| topic | Air-ground collaborative wireless network alpine scenarios unmanned aerial robots unmanned ground vehicles WiMAX α-level probabilistic search technique |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8398223/ |
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