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First International Workshop on Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks for Public Safety Systems (WMAPS'2011) Co-located with IEEE MASS 2011 The 8th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems

October 21, 2011 Valencia, Spain

http://www.hnps.eu/mass2011.html Scope: Public Safety Networks (PSNs) are the communications networks that are established by the relevant authorities to either prepare the population for an imminent catastrophe, or to support communication during the actual crisis and post crisis normalisation phases. These PSNs have special requirements, when compared to regular networks. The main concerns in establishing public safety networks are their facility to be deployed rapidly and their survivability.

Other important characteristics of this kind of network is that their requirements may change radically, depending on the nature of the particular disaster. These networks are always mission critical and once deployed, PSNs have to be reliable since lives may depend on them.

Recent global disasters have dramatically demonstrated that network structures can be severely affected, either directly by the disaster itself (where the existing infrastructure is damaged or destroyed) or by the following public reaction (overloaded networks caused by the need to communicate with friends and family). “Historically, major disasters are the most intense generators of telecommunications traffic”. For these reasons, the regular public networks alone are often not enough to support rescue and relief operations on their own.

In addition to the stated problems of equipment failures and lack of connectivity, it must be understood that various different communication technologies are currently used for public safety communication, and it is common to find that each first responder group favours their own preferred technology. For example, TETRA, Analogue Radio Networks or GSM are used for voice communication, while data transmission for localisation, sensor information transfer and video streaming are currently not widely used in public safety. Local public safety agencies also have to communicate more and more with complimentary agencies such as other first responders, law enforcement groups, hospitals and even military authorities. As a direct consequence of the differing technologies in use at the same time PSNs are often not interoperable, which may represent a problem in the case of a catastrophe.

Unfortunately existing communications networks are not always reliable during incidents or dangerous interventions. The deployment of new, ad hoc, dedicated, networks for Public Safety has been a long held dream, but technical, cost and management concerns create real problems.

Finally, the scope of possible sensor use in PSNs is broad; it can include intrusion detection, where one can use different types of sensors to recognise potential hazard situations (e.g. by means of the detection and tracking of abnormal behaviours using Computer Vision-based techniques), to the integration of different technologies used by the intervention teams in the advent of a catastrophe. Sensors can also be used during and after incidents to measure the physical environment and report from a distance in areas that are too dangerous for direct human monitoring.

Topics:

Specific topics include, but are not limited to the ones listed below:

- Ad hoc communication for emergency management - Sensor networks for Public safety networks - Usability issues for intervention teams - Intrusion detection - Heterogeneous networks integration - Mobility patterns for catastrophe scenarios - Network security for Public safety networks - Cooperative networks in Public Safety - Self-awareness , QoS and Adaptivity - Related demos and field trials

Paper Submission Guidelines: Please follow the instruction of MASS conference (http://mass2011.upv.es/) Please follow this link to submit your papers: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=10943

Proposals for demos should be at most 2 pages, and will not figure in the conference proceedings.

Important Dates: - Manuscripts Due: July 16, 2011 - Acceptance Notification: August 10, 2011 - Camera-ready Submission: August 26, 2011

Organizers (co-chairs): Kate Yeadon - Entreprise des Postes et Télécommunications, Luxembourg Daniel Câmara - EURECOM, France Nuria Sánchez - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc