A four-quadrant mobility model-based routing protocol for post-earthquake emergency communication network

• Main Authors: Xiaoming Wang, Chang Guo
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SpringerOpen 2021-06-01
• Series: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
• Subjects: ECN; FQMM; FQMMBP; Rescue urgency degree; Post-earthquake
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13638-021-02017-y

Abstract Emergency communication network (ECN) is the important infrastructure to acquire the real-time information after disaster, which is essential for rescue task. However, the existed routing protocols seldom consider the uneven distribution of rescue area so that cannot satisfy the ECN’s requirement and the quality of rescue needs improvement. In this paper, we avoided the traditional linear propulsion from rim to core and proposed a novel four-quadrant mobility model (FQMM), which makes rescuers arrive the most intensity core area first, which can improve the rescue quality. Then, a FQMM-based protocol (FQMMBP) for ECN is designed, which aims to improve the performance of ECN in terms of package delivery rate (PDR) and end-to-end delay. Finally, we set up a virtual earthquake scenario to simulate our proposed protocol in NS2. Results show that the proposed protocol outperforms to the three compared routing protocols, i.e., AODV, DSDV and DSR. The average FDR is improved by 16.31%, and the average reduction of delay is 64.45%, which shows our proposed scheme’s advantages in quality of rescue.