Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) for disaster management

Abstract

Information technology plays an important role in facilitating disaster management and allowing planners for a more efficient disaster handling. Climate change can reasonably be expected to increase countries' vulnerability to natural hazards in future. We are already witnesses of extreme meteorological phenomena, such as expanded fires and floods. This paper gives Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) along with Dynamic Source Routing protocol (DSR). Simulation results for performance measurement of DSR algorithm for normal condition are given first. Same parameters are measured after applying disaster condition on nodes is presented in next section. In last section simulation results of disaster prevention condition are given. It is observed that performance of the network after application of prevention condition is nearly same as the normal performance. The performance is evaluated in terms of Network Throughput, Packet Delivery Ratio, and Average end to end delay.