A Hybrid Network Protocol for Disaster Scenarios

Abstract

In the last decade, there has been an increase in the number of natural disasters and terrorist attacks that were massive in scale and civilian casualties. In most of these disaster situations, rescue operations have been carried out on large scale. This paper assumes a heterogeneous network disaster recovery scenario and proposes a cost effective and easy to deploy hybrid communication system to achieve rescuers' requirements and cooperation. Designing a new protocol for hybrid network with different access protocols and with mobility and failures poses several challenges. The proposed protocol uses the Inter-Domain Messaging (IDM) framework to achieve the goal. The simulation shows the functionality of the hybrid protocol model (non-IP routing protocol), and maintains routes without the lower layer detection of link breaks.

A Hybrid Network Emergency Communication Model

“…However, having a combined routing protocol to integrate MANET and WSN are more complicated than using a gateway translating protocols for integration. Some researchers unite the addressing scheme to suite network architectures differences (Gadallah & El-Kassabi, 2008;Mayer & Fritsche, 2006;Baryun, Al-Begain, & Villa, 2011). The address scheme depicted by Senner, Karnapke, Lagemann, and Nolte (2008) is 8 bit address which distinguishes WSN and MANET networks address by one bit, and another bit distinguishing between broadcasting and unicasting.…”

“…The implementation of IDM in disaster situations was first introduced by Baryun, Al-Begain, Villa (2011). They investigated the reliability of IDM on top of IEEE802.15.4.…”

“…The carry and deliver technique used is investigated in this paper also. Baryun, Al-Begain and Villa (2011), investigated the forwarding with and without acknowledgement while no linkbreak-feedback detection is by below underlying protocol. They investigated AODV/ IDM routing instead of AODV/IP.…”