Design and Performance Evaluation of Hybrid Architecture for Mission Critical Communication Scenarios

Human safety represents an ensential key feature in future samrt cities, which can be improved by mission critical vehicles that can operate in remote locations where rescue teams cannot reach due to various factors such as unavailable roads, floods, or fires. For example, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or simply drones, that work together in a swarm scheme to distribute food and aid to distant unreachable areas. MCVs have the ability to serve as tiny data centers (NDCs) having their own computing, communication, and storage resources that, even small, can be used as processing infrastructure at the edge. Processing data at the edge, in near proximity to where it was collected, will ensure low latency and avoid the cost of communication with cloud infrastructure. Therefore, MCVs can communicate with each other through direct communication in a mobile ad hoc network (MANET) or communicate centrally through a medium such as relays, also known as software defined network (SDN) controllers. SDN contorllers are central entities seen as the intelligent part of the network, that for instnace, can ensure the resource allocation operations.

Faculty Supervisor:

Soumaya Cherkaoui

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Partner:

Humanitas Solutions

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

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