Reactive and proactive congestion management for emergency building evacuation

Abstract

We introduce two congestion metrics to guide emergency evacuations using sensing and local area networks, that use current congestion and congestion forecasts, together with the Cognitive Packet Network (CPN), a routing algorithm which intelligently discovers paths. Using simulations we find that CPN performs well for emergency evacuation with such metrics, and also reveal the dynamics that these schemes can create. © 2013 IEEE.