Title: An ad-hoc unicursal protocol for stable and long-lived communication systems in disaster situations

Authors: Koichi Asakura, Hiroya Takikawa, Junya Oishi, Toyohide Watanabe

Addresses: School of Informatics, Daido University, 10-3 Takiharu-cho, Minami-ku, Nagoya 457-8530, Japan. ' Department of Systems and Social Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan. ' Department of Systems and Social Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan. ' Department of Systems and Social Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan

Abstract: In this paper, we propose an ad-hoc unicursal protocol for communication systems in disaster situations. This protocol is designed for gathering information about rescues effectively in a big earthquake. For the longevity of networks, terminals are connected to each other in linear form in our protocol, which makes the communication loads among terminals relatively equal. In order to decrease frequency of packet sending, our protocol introduces virtual terminals, in which two neighbouring terminals activate alternatively. Experimental results show that our protocol needs less packets and that the average life time of terminals is longer than other protocols.

Keywords: mobile ad-hoc networks; wireless networks; routing protocols; MANET; mobile networks; ad-hoc unicursal protocol; disaster management; emergency management; emergency communications; rescue information; earthquakes; network longevity; communication loads; packet sending; terminal life time.

DOI: 10.1504/IJKWI.2010.034185

International Journal of Knowledge and Web Intelligence, 2010 Vol.1 No.3/4, pp.154 - 168

Published online: 17 Jul 2010 *

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