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In this paper, we present a software tool for planning the deployment of a rapid-deployable opportunistic network for post-disaster communication establishment in the absence of mobile and other conventional networks. Such a network may be used by Government Agencies and NGOs working for disaster management to coordinate their rescue-relief workers when there is a complete or partial communication blackout. Having a rough knowledge on the affected area (through satellite imagery or otherwise), the location of the control station, and the maximum tolerable delay bound by the opportunistic (DTN) network, the proposed tool could provide with the required communication resources to achieve the desired goal and a deployment plan of the same so that the obtained network has packet delivery delay within the desired delay bound.
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Locations where the affected people take temporary shelter; rescue-relief operations usually coordinated locally from these locations.
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This Publication is an outcome of the R&D work undertaken partially in the ITRA project of Media Lab Asia entitled “Post-Disaster Situation Analysis and Resource Management Using Delay-Tolerant Peer-to-Peer Wireless Networks (DISARM)”, and partially in the project entitled “Developing ICT-based kiosks for post-disaster situational information management using opportunistic networking framework” funded by Department of Higher Education, Science and Technology and Biotechnology, Government of West Bengal, India.
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Paul, P.S., Hazra, K., Saha, S., Nandi, S. (2021). Oh Dear! It’s Just a Tool to Plan the Deployment of a Post-Disaster Network!. In: Bhattacharjee, D., Kole, D.K., Dey, N., Basu, S., Plewczynski, D. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference on Frontiers in Computing and Systems. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1255. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7834-2_82
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