SEREMA

After natural disasters like earthquakes or after human-made disasters like terrorist attacks, it is very important to organize the disaster response teams. Therefore, communication infrastructure is very important. However, this infrastructure could be heavily damaged during the disaster. Typically, all the disaster response teams as well as the victims carry along mobile devices. These mobile network devices can be combined to ad hoc networks which can be used for communication.
The performance of wireless ad hoc networks is mainly affected by the routing protocol. A lot of routing protocols are available for wireless ad hoc networks. However, these protocols are not suitable for highly dynamic mobile ad hoc networks because they are not able to adapt to major changes in the network topology.
In disaster scenarios, highly dynamic networks are considered. This work presents an adaptive approach which is able to switch between multiple routing protocols during the runtime of the network.