DUMBO II: A V-2-I emergency network
Résumé
Project DUMBO (Digital Ubiquitous Mobile Broadband OLSR) deploys Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) for post- disaster situations where fixed network infrastructure is unavailable; an emergency network has to be put in place urgently. DUMBO allows streaming video, VoIP and short messages to be simultaneously transmitted from a number of mobile laptops or PDA's to/from the central command center, or to the other recovery workers within the same or different disaster sites. We assume that our proposed emergency network must be easy to set up with standard Wi-Fi, laptops and/or PDA's, which are readily available commercially. Besides, we set up a series of experiments realizing emergency networks with locally available vehicles such as elephants, long tailed boats, local utilities (Tuk-Tuks), bicycles and motorcycles forming vehicle-to-vehicle as well as vehicle-to-infrastructure network