As part of the US Federal Communications Commission's effort to learn lessons from Sandy, and to inform future Commission efforts in this area, I'm putting together a technical workshop on lessons we can learn from Sandy. This workshop will be attended by senior Commission staff involved in wireless and wireline communications, as well as our public safety bureau, and will be open to interested researchers on a space-available basis. Unfortunately, we cannot provide travel funding. (There will be no charge for the workshop.)
You are invited to send informal abstract (no more than one page) and bio by January 18, 2013, 5 pm. We will then select suitable panelists and notify submitters by Jan. 22. Please submit papers to http://edas.info/N14177 Topics could include: - Can we predict the frequency and impact of future storms? - How do we build communication systems to be more resilient during and after natural disasters? - How can public safety systems, such as 9-1-1, be improved to be more survivable and scalable? - Can we rapidly deploy replacement infrastructure that can basic meet communication needs during such events? - How can we improve how authorities communicate with citizens, beyond standard emergency alerting? - What civil infrastructure improvements can be made and how much do they cost? - Can smart grid and similar technologies help reduce recovery times? Henning Schulzrinne CTO, FCC _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
