Issue No. 05 - September/October (2005 vol. 4)
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TMC.2005.60
Jeffrey V. Nickerson , IEEE
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.
Index Terms- Mobile computing, wireless communication, decision aids, transportation planning, emergency response, mobile ad hoc networks, route guidance, contingency planning.
Jeffrey V. Nickerson, "A Concept of Communication Distance and Its Application to Six Situations in Mobile Environments", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 4, no. , pp. 409-419, September/October 2005, doi:10.1109/TMC.2005.60