A Framework for Post Disaster Management using Device to Device Communication with Controlled Mobility and Opportunistic Routing

The Device to Device (D2D) communication has the ability of communicating between devices in proximity and the integration of D2D in LTE-Advanced has come up with the possibility of forming a network with hand-held devices even in the absence of cellular network infrastructure. In this work we propose a post disaster management framework employing multi-hop D2D communication to restore communication and maintain relief work in disaster hit zones where communication system has collapsed completely. Clustering along with a concept of cluster-core for efficient data collection by Data Mule has also been proposed. The intermittent nature of such D2D based communication system might lead to frequent and lengthy disconnection resulting delay in message delivery or loss of message. Opportunistic routing principle with bundle protocol on top of multi-hop D2D communication has been explored to address the lengthy network delay and disconnection issues.