Automatic Evacuation Guiding Scheme Using Trajectories of Mobile Nodes

When large-scale disasters occur, evacuees have to evacuate to safe places quickly. In this paper, we propose an automatic evacuation guiding scheme using mobile nodes of evacuees. Each node tries to navigate its evacuee by presenting an evacuation route. It can also trace the actual evacuation route of the evacuee as the trajectory by measuring his/her positions periodically. The proposed scheme automatically estimates blocked road segments from the difference between the presented evacuation route and the actual evacuation route, and then recalculates the alternative evacuation route. In addition, evacuees also share such information among them through direct wireless communication with other mobile nodes and that with a server via remaining communication infrastructures. Through simulation experiments, we show that 1) the effectiveness of the proposed scheme becomes high with the increase of degree of damage and 2) the effect of information sharing through communication infrastructures is higher than that through direct wireless communication.

[1]  Jon Crowcroft,et al.  Evaluating opportunistic networks in disaster scenarios , 2013, J. Netw. Comput. Appl..

[2]  Amin Vahdat,et al.  Epidemic Routing for Partially-Connected Ad Hoc Networks , 2009 .

[3]  Stephan Winter,et al.  Get me out of here: collaborative evacuation based on local knowledge , 2011, ISA '11.

[4]  Kayo Iizuka,et al.  An Effective Disaster Evacuation Assist System Utilized by an Ad-Hoc Network , 2011, HCI.

[5]  Takashi Horiyama,et al.  Enumeration of region partitioning for evacuation planning based on ZDD , 2013 .

[6]  Jörg Ott,et al.  The ONE simulator for DTN protocol evaluation , 2009, SIMUTools 2009.

[7]  Kevin R. Fall,et al.  A delay-tolerant network architecture for challenged internets , 2003, SIGCOMM '03.

[8]  Ruidong Li,et al.  NerveNet: A Regional Platform Network for Context-Aware Services with Sensors and Actuators , 2011, IEICE Trans. Commun..

[9]  Gino J. Lim,et al.  A capacitated network flow optimization approach for short notice evacuation planning , 2012, Eur. J. Oper. Res..

[10]  Elmar Gerhards-Padilla,et al.  Modeling mobility in disaster area scenarios , 2009, Perform. Evaluation.

[11]  Md. Yusuf Sarwar Uddin,et al.  A post-disaster mobility model for Delay Tolerant Networking , 2009, Proceedings of the 2009 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC).

[12]  Akihiro Fujihara,et al.  Disaster Evacuation Guidance Using Opportunistic Communication: The Potential for Opportunity-Based Service , 2014, Big Data and Internet of Things.