TY - JOUR
T1 - A Concept of Communication Distance and Its Application to Six Situations in Mobile Environments
AU - Nickerson, Jeffrey V.
PY - 2005/9
Y1 - 2005/9
N2 - Wireless networks combined with location technology create new problems and call for new decision aids. As a precursor to the development of these decision aids, a concept of communication distance is developed and applied to six situations. This concept allows travel time and bandwidth to be combined in a single measure so that many problems can be mapped onto a weighted graph and solved through shortest path algorithms. The paper looks at the problem of intercepting an out-of-communication team member and describes ways of using planning to reduce communication distance in anticipation of a break in connection. The concept is also applied to ad hoc radio networks. A way of performing route planning using a bandwidth map is developed and analyzed. The general implications of the work to transportation planning are discussed.
AB - Wireless networks combined with location technology create new problems and call for new decision aids. As a precursor to the development of these decision aids, a concept of communication distance is developed and applied to six situations. This concept allows travel time and bandwidth to be combined in a single measure so that many problems can be mapped onto a weighted graph and solved through shortest path algorithms. The paper looks at the problem of intercepting an out-of-communication team member and describes ways of using planning to reduce communication distance in anticipation of a break in connection. The concept is also applied to ad hoc radio networks. A way of performing route planning using a bandwidth map is developed and analyzed. The general implications of the work to transportation planning are discussed.
KW - Mobile computing
KW - contingency planning
KW - decision aids
KW - emergency response
KW - mobile ad hoc networks
KW - route guidance
KW - transportation planning
KW - wireless communication
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U2 - 10.1109/TMC.2005.60
DO - 10.1109/TMC.2005.60
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85008024182
SN - 1536-1233
VL - 4
SP - 409
EP - 419
JO - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
JF - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
IS - 5
ER -