Evacuation and Emergency Management Using a Federated Cloud

Contemporary disaster relief techniques fall significantly short in terms of efficiency and timeliness. In a postdisaster scenario, the generation and transmission of voluminous data at a high velocity impacts the communication framework. This work exploits the benefits of opportunistic communication and efficient big data management policies, focusing on the collaboration of multiple private and/or public clouds of diverse nature to perform damage assessment and determine the spatial distribution of the live victims and their physical and mental status. Based on the analytics, real-time decision making of the rescue operation is achieved.