Ensuring Reliable Communication in Disaster Recovery Operations with Reliable Routing Technique

Menon, Varun G.; Pathrose, Joe Prathap; Priya, Jogi

doi:10.1155/2016/9141329

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“…In [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25], the authors proposed various deployment schemes for disaster response to a building collapse, search and rescue, as well as a resource request through ad hoc networks. In [18], the authors proposed a novel approach, called Supporting Urban Preparedness and Emergency Response using Mobile Ad hoc Network (SUPER-MAN).…”

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“…In [23], the authors proposed a Reliable Routing Technique (RRT) that ensures reliable data delivery towards the destination device, using mobile devices that are carried by moving people in the incident area. Each mobile device broadcasts the received message towards the destination by maintaining a priority list of probable forwarding candidates.…”

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RDSP: Rapidly Deployable Wireless Ad Hoc System for Post-Disaster Management

Khan

Munir

Kaleem

et al. 2020

Sensors

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In post-disaster scenarios, such as after floods, earthquakes, and in war zones, the cellular communication infrastructure may be destroyed or seriously disrupted. In such emergency scenarios, it becomes very important for first aid responders to communicate with other rescue teams in order to provide feedback to both the central office and the disaster survivors. To address this issue, rapidly deployable systems are required to re-establish connectivity and assist users and first responders in the region of incident. In this work, we describe the design, implementation, and evaluation of a rapidly deployable system for first response applications in post-disaster situations, named RDSP. The proposed system helps early rescue responders and victims by sharing their location information to remotely located servers by utilizing a novel routing scheme. This novel routing scheme consists of the Dynamic ID Assignment (DIA) algorithm and the Minimum Maximum Neighbor (MMN) algorithm. The DIA algorithm is used by relay devices to dynamically select their IDs on the basis of all the available IDs of networks. Whereas, the MMN algorithm is used by the client and relay devices to dynamically select their next neighbor relays for the transmission of messages. The RDSP contains three devices; the client device sends the victim's location information to the server, the relay device relays information between client and server device, the server device receives messages from the client device to alert the rescue team. We deployed and evaluated our system in the outdoor environment of the university campus. The experimental results show that the RDSP system reduces the message delivery delay and improves the message delivery ratio with lower communication overhead.

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RDSP: Rapidly Deployable Wireless Ad Hoc System for Post-Disaster Management

Khan

Munir

Kaleem

et al. 2020

Sensors

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“…CROW 2 is designed specifically to offload data from the disaster area to ERC but does not provide any provisions for the EU to use the network to gather information for themselves. The authors of [17] propose to use smartphones to form an ad hoc network using a reliable routing mechanism. Reliable Routing Technique (RRT) [17] uses a broadcast based routing technique to improve reliability.…”

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“…Several steps have been taken to enable wireless communication between ERs in such situations [8,9,10,11,12,13] with an objective to improve interoperability, reliability, and accessibility. In comparison, there are few solutions designed to connect the affected survivors to the ERs and the ERCs [14,15,16,17,18]. Further limited are the solutions that have been implemented and prototyped to establish feasibility [16,18,14].…”

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HELPER: Heterogeneous Efficient Low Power Radio for enabling ad hoc emergency public safety networks

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Natural and man-made disasters have been causing destruction and distress to humanity all over the world. In these scenarios, communication infrastructures are the most affected entities making the rescue and emergency response operations extremely challenging. This invokes a need to equip the affected people and the emergency responders with the ability to rapidly set up and use independent means of communication. Therefore, in this work, we present a complete endto-end solution that can connect survivors of a disaster with each other and the authorities using a completely self-sufficient ad hoc network that can be setup rapidly. Accordingly, we develop a Heterogeneous Efficient Low Power Radio (HELPER) that acts as a WiFi (Wireless Fidelity) access point for end-users to connect using website application developed by us. These HELPERs then coordinate with each other to form a LoRa based ad hoc network. To this end, we propose a novel cross-layer optimized distributed energy-efficient routing (SEEK) algorithm that aims to maximize the network lifetime. This aspect is critical especially in energy constrained scenarios after a disaster.To prove the feasibility of the solutions, we prototype the HELPER using WiFi enabled Raspberry Pi and LoRa module that is configured to run using Li-ion batteries. We implement the required cross-layer protocol stack along with the SEEK routing algorithm and develop a website application that an end-user can avail to connect using any device such as smartphones, tablets, laptops etc. We have conducted demonstrations to establish the feasibility of exchanging of text messages over the HELPER network, live map updates, ability to send distress messages (like 9-1-1 calls) to authorities. In the context of authorities, we have shown how they can leverage this technology to remotely monitor the connectivity of the affected area, alert users of imminent dangers and share resource (water, food, first aid) availability information. We have also conducted an extensive numerical evaluation of SEEK algorithm against a greedy geographical routing algorithm using the HELPER testbed. Results showed up to 53% improvement in network lifetime and up to 28% improvement in throughput. Overall, we hope this technology will become instrumental in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of public safety activities.

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“…We cite among, other works, approaches that studied and implemented alert messaging systems, such as the Reliable Routing Technique (RRT) [14] and TeamPhone [15]. Both approaches consist of setting up a smartphone messaging system, which is able to send alert notifications by bridging cellular networks or over ad hoc and opportunistic networks.…”

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Enhanced IoT-Based End-To-End Emergency and Disaster Relief System

Arbia

Alam

Kadri

et al. 2017

JSAN

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Abstract:In this paper, we present a new enhancement for an emergency and disaster relief system called Critical and Rescue Operations using Wearable Wireless sensors networks (CROW 2 ). We address the reliability challenges in setting up a wireless autonomous communication system in order to offload data from the disaster area (rescuers, trapped victims, civilians, media, etc.) back to a command center. The proposed system connects deployed rescuers to extended networks and the Internet. CROW 2 is an end-to-end system that runs the recently-proposed Optimized Routing Approach for Critical and Emergency Networks (ORACE-Net) routing protocol. The system integrates heterogeneous wireless devices (Raspberry Pi, smart phones, sensors) and various communicating technologies (WiFi IEEE 802.11n, Bluetooth IEEE 802.15.1) to enable end-to-end network connectivity, which is monitored by a cloud Internet-of-Things platform. First, we present the CROW 2 generic system architecture, which is adaptable to various technologies integration at different levels (i.e., on-body, body-to-body, off-body). Second, we implement the ORACE-Net protocol on heterogeneous devices including Android-based smart phones and Linux-based Raspberry Pi devices. These devices act as on-body coordinators to collect information from on-body sensors. The collected data is then pushed to the command center thanks to multi-hop device-to-device communication. Third, the overall CROW 2 system performance is evaluated according to relevant metrics including end-to-end link quality estimation, throughput and end-to-end delay. As a proof-of-concept, we validate the system architecture through deployment and extracted experimental results. Finally, we highlight motion detection and links' unavailability prevention based on the recorded data where the main factors (i.e., interference and noise) that affect the performance are analyzed.

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Ensuring Reliable Communication in Disaster Recovery Operations with Reliable Routing Technique

Cited by 34 publications

References 35 publications

RDSP: Rapidly Deployable Wireless Ad Hoc System for Post-Disaster Management

RDSP: Rapidly Deployable Wireless Ad Hoc System for Post-Disaster Management

HELPER: Heterogeneous Efficient Low Power Radio for enabling ad hoc emergency public safety networks

Enhanced IoT-Based End-To-End Emergency and Disaster Relief System

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