Print Email Facebook Twitter Designing inclusion and continuity for resilient communication during disasters Title Designing inclusion and continuity for resilient communication during disasters Author Banerjee, I. (TU Delft Water Resources; TU Delft System Engineering) Warnier, Martijn (TU Delft Multi Actor Systems) Brazier, F.M. (TU Delft System Engineering) Department Multi Actor Systems Date 2022 Abstract This paper addresses the challenge of establishing a resilient disaster communication system that transitions seamlessly from a phone-based ad hoc network to any portable infrastructure and back. For this purpose, this paper presents a value-based design of an autonomous and self-organized protocol (SOS-hybrid). This design ensures seamless integration between various communication networks taking local context into account to increase inclusion and continuity of connectivity. SOS-hybrid has two benefits. First, local self-organization can adapt to the local situation in a disaster area. Second, context-awareness can fill in the spatial gaps of coverage associated with top-down approaches. An agent-based modelling approach was used to develop the simulation of the proposed communication network to evaluate the impact of introducing SOS-hybrid in the aftermath of a disaster. SOS-hybrid allows phones to simultaneously provide the benefits of (i) ad hoc mobile networking, allowing hard-to-reach people to connect, and (ii) infrastructure-based communication, allowing phones to more efficiently send messages over long distances. Benefits include two-way communication between community and rescue operators, inclusion and continued connectivity for immobile citizens stuck in isolated out of coverage areas, and seamless transition without loss of messages. Subject community resiliencecontext-aware protocolhybrid networkResilient communicationsself-organisationvalue-based design To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e0781884-adfa-4ca4-89cc-509daf8e79c5 DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/23789689.2022.2124717 ISSN 2378-9689 Source Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, 7 (6), 955-970 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2022 I. Banerjee, Martijn Warnier, F.M. Brazier Files PDF Designing_inclusion_and_c ... asters.pdf 8.11 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:e0781884-adfa-4ca4-89cc-509daf8e79c5/datastream/OBJ/view