Title :
Reactive and proactive congestion management for emergency building evacuation
Author :
Desmet, Antoine ; Gelenbe, Erol
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Imperial Coll. London, London, UK
Abstract :
We introduce two congestion metrics to guide emergency evacuations using sensing and local area networks, that use current congestion and congestion forecasts, together with the Cognitive Packet Network (CPN), a routing algorithm which intelligently discovers paths. Using simulations we find that CPN performs well for emergency evacuation with such metrics, and also reveal the dynamics that these schemes can create.
Keywords :
building management systems; emergency management; local area networks; wireless sensor networks; CPN; cognitive packet network; congestion forecasts; emergency building evacuation; local area network; proactive congestion management; reactive congestion management; routing algorithm; sensing network; Buildings; Computer networks; Computers; Heuristic algorithms; Measurement; Routing; TV;
Conference_Titel :
Local Computer Networks (LCN), 2013 IEEE 38th Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0536-2
DOI :
10.1109/LCN.2013.6761321
