Emergency Scenarios

predict what technologies or devices show up at the site. Emergency needs and the ever-increasing design complexity AbstractEstablishing and accessing a reliable of heterogeneous environment challenge engineers to raise the communication infrastructure at crisis site is a challenging level of abstraction and replace traditional ad-hoc approaches research problem. Failure in communication infrastructure and .n.eropeabili.y information exchange impedes the early response efforts resulting in huge loss of lives and economical impacts. Reliability, robustness, interoperability and minimum interdependencies are We have deployed a wireless mesh network at several drills specific requirements of communication technology within the and deployments on the UCSD campus and throughout San context of emergency applications. We present the real Diego County to transfer data locally and use any available measurements obtained over the deployment of a quickly Wide Area Network (WAN), satellite or other communication configurable and easily reconfigurable wireless mesh test bed at technologies as a backhaul link to connect this local network disaster site. This is followed by an analytical discussion of the o eologie aslab haulain ocoect this localtrk important observations concerning the factors that impact toteouideworld Tesman o ith is nftructu performance or cause bottlenecks. is to provide first responders with a local network to