| Fall 2005 UMASS
Amherst Operations Research / Management Science Seminar Series |
Date: Friday, November 18, 2005 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Isenberg School of Management, Room 112 |
| Speaker: Professor
Aura Ganz Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Massachusetts at Amherst |
| Biography: Aura Ganz is an Associate
Professor and Director of the Multimedia Networks Laboratory at the ECE
Department, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She has co-authored
the
book, Multimedia Wireless
Networks: Technologies, Standards and QoS, and
has over 150 peer-reviewed publications. She is a senior
member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
(IEEE) and is a member of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology
Society (EMBS). She holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from the Technion
in Israel. |
| TITLE: Resilient Communication
Networks for Disaster Management |
|
Abstract:
In this presentation, we introduce the communication challenges faced
during disasters. We discuss a number of low-cost and easy to setup
wireless multimedia
transmission systems that we developed to support patient care during
disasters. With real-time transfer of data from video cameras, sensors
and display of information on the devices (PDAs, laptops) of EMT
(Emergency Medical Team) from multiple disaster sites to the control
center, the system enables disaster managers to quickly obtain
patients' status information from the entire disaster area, to assist
the diagnosis and treatment of patients, reducing mortality and
morbidity in disaster situation. Moreover, the disaster managers in the
command center can remotely control the information sent from the
disaster sites. We have implemented the system prototype over a
wireless network and successfully demonstrated simultaneous
transmission of video, sensor information, medical image and text
patient information from multiple disaster sites to the control center.
This is joint work with Yuechun Chu and Xin Huang |
| This series is organized by the
UMASS Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter. Support for this series is
provided by the Isenberg School of Management, the Department of
Finance and Operations Management, INFORMS, and the John F. Smith
Memorial Fund. For questions, please contact the INFORMS Student Chapter Representative, Ms. Tina Wakolbinger, wakolbinger@som.umass.edu |