The design and implementation of mesh-based DTN for disaster situations

Abstract

Disaster is an unpredictable hazard which requires immediate buildup of emergency network to overcome any possible destruction to society or living beings. For such critical issue, yet no international standard is defined for emergency network. Therefore in this paper we have proposed an emergency network which is immune to network disconnection. Proposed network uses delay tolerant networking layer with CFDP, BP & LTP; moreover BATMAN is used as routing protocol and proposed emergency network is emulated using Dummynet. Satisfactory results are obtained in terms of throughput and data transfer time.