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Federico Barrero 1 and Sergio Toral 1 and Princy Johnson 2 and Mesut Günes 3 and Eleana Asimakopoulou 4
1, Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Seville, 41092 Sevilla, Spain
2, School of Engineering, Technology and Maritime Operations, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK
3, Communication and Networked Systems (ComSys), Institute of Computer Science, University of Munster, 48149 Münster, Germany
4, University of Derby, Derby DE22 1GB, UK
Received 13 September 2015; Accepted 13 September 2015; 7 October 2015
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Disaster scenarios and threat detection systems present interesting niche applications for ad hoc and wireless sensor networks that can be used to showcase novel communication techniques to deal with unexpected conditions emerging from such scenarios. There is an opportunity to develop techniques suitable for the 21st century, where people mostly communicate with each other using smart mobile devices such as iPhones. Communication among victims and...