Abstract:
Disaster Area Network (DAN) is very crucial in case of natural or
man-made disasters. During state of emergency, a rapidly deployable
network is the highest priority to conduct search and rescue operations. This
research aims at investigating network architecture and routing models for
disaster area networks. The main objective and goal of DAN is to ensure
reliable, energy efficient communication which is susceptible to mobility
and topology changes in the disaster area. The purpose is to improve delay,
reduce overhead, minimize energy used, sustain movement and increase
bandwidth for multimedia applications. Mobile Ad hoc network (MANET)
addresses issues related to rapid and temporary setup and terminal
probability and mobility in a disaster area until conventional infrastructure
communication is established. We study the behavior of two common
reactive routing protocols (AODV and DYMO) in disaster area in different
scenarios using OMNET++ simulator to define the suitable protocol in the
studied area, in order to insure reliable communication. At the end of the
research we obtained that, DYMO is more reliable and stable than AODV,
so we recommend to use it in our study case DAN (Marabee Al- shareef).
