Proposing Disaster Management System based on Vehicular Ad hoc Networks

Abstract

/ Disaster Management System (DMS) demands fast and timely response for roaming relief teams to save human lives and property. To mitigate the effects of disasters, the installation and restoration of proper communication infrastructure is highly required to facilitate and coordinate the exchange of information among the relief teams working in the area. This paper proposes a data collection system based on the Vehicular Cloud Network services, which uses Vehicle Ad hoc Network (VANETs) infrastructure with Cloud to form Vehicular Cloud Network (VCNs) to perform this task. In the proposed system, vehicles play roles based upon their locations, and directions e.g. monitoring environment, collecting data, and relaying data to operation center. Proposed system introduces hybrid wireless networking: central network and ad hoc network to establish disaster management system. The implementation results confirm that the proposed system is more reliable and efficient; in terms of the reachability with few hops improvement is achieved even in light density. Furthermore, end-to-end delay and packet delivery ratio assure high performance for the proposed system in comparison with the traditional system.