| 2nd IEEE Workshop on Situation Management - SIMA 2006
Situation Management Architectures
Emergency Situations & Crisis Management
The impact of extreme events across the globe is extraordinary, continues to handicap the advancement of the struggling developing societies and threatens most of the industrialized countries in the globe. Various fields of Information and Communication Technology have widely been used for efficient disaster management; but only to a limited extent though, there is a tremendous potential for increasing efficiency and effectiveness in coping with disasters with the utilization of emerging wireless network technologies. Early warning, response to the particular situation and proper recovery are among the main focuses of an efficient disaster management system today. Considering these aspects, in this paper we propose a framework for developing an efficient disaster management communications and information system (DMCIS) which is basically benefited by the exploitation of the emerging wireless network technologies combined with other networking and data processing technologies.
We start our paper with an overview of Disaster Management Communication and Information System, then introduce the emerging wireless technologies; wireless ad hoc and wireless sensor networks. We divide our framework into several distinct but interrelated levels. We also provide an analysis of our proposed framework, mention some conditions and equations to be considered for this. Before concluding the paper, we mention the related works for our contribution. We conclude the paper mentioning the future works to be done, related to our proposed framework for an efficient DMCIS. |
| Al-Sakib Khan Pathan is a graduate student and research assistant in Networking Lab, Department of Computer Engineering at Kyung Hee University, Korea. His research interest includes mobile and pervasive networking, security in networking and e-services technologies. He received his B.Sc. degree in Computer Science and Information Technology in 2003 from Islamic University of Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Before joining Networking Lab, he was with the CSE Laboratories, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is a student member of IEEE, member of Korea Information Science Society (KISS) and KIPS.
Choong Seon Hong received his BS and MS degrees in electronics engineering from Kyung Hee University, Korea in 1983 and 1985 respectively. In 1988 he joined KT, where he worked on N-ISDN and Broadband Networks as a member of the technical staff. From September 1993, he joined Keio University, Japan. He received the PhD degree from Keio University in 1997. He had worked for the Telecommunication Network Lab, KT as a senior member of technical staff and as a director of the networking research team until august 1999. Since September, 1999 he has been working as a professor of the school of electronics and information at Kyung Hee University where he is also leading the Networking Lab. He was on leave for one year and was with the School of Information and Computer Science at University of California, Irvine, USA. His research interests include ad hoc networks, network security and network management. He is a member of IEEE, IPSJ, Korean Institute of Communication Sciences (KICS), KISS and KIPS. |