Title
Using emulation to validate post-disaster network recovery solutions
Abstract
Given the high importance of communication for disaster management and recovery operations, it is essential to develop solutions for restoring network connectivity after natural catastrophes. We have used a disaster emulation framework built on top of the large-scale network testbed StarBED in order to virtually recreate a series of disaster conditions. Thus we could evaluate the potential of using Delay/Disruption Tolerant Network (DTN) protocols and inter-vehicle communication for post-disaster network recovery. The results of our network emulation experiments prove that DTN in itself is a feasible alternative for network recovery. The objective assessment done using our emulation testbed on how communication performance depends on the mobility pattern of the vehicles and on their density can be used to make various practical decisions, for instance on how to manage the mobility of some of the vehicles in order to optimize network performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.4108/icst.simutools.2014.254619
SIMUTools
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
experimentation,disaster response,verification,measurement techniques,vehicular networks,disaster emulation,network recovery,dtn,performance,network emulation
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Razvan Beuran111321.10
Shingo Yasuda211.79
Tomoya Inoue354.37
Shinsuke Miwa4509.24
Yoichi Shinoda5554139.63