The potential of cooperative communications to speed up disaster relief operations

Farouk Mezghani (1) , Nathalie Mitton (1)

1 FUN - Self-organizing Future Ubiquitous Network

This paper proposes FLY-COPE, a complete self-organization architecture that relies on cooperative communications and drone-assisted data collection, allowing a fast location of victims and rescuing operation organization in disaster relief operation. FLY-COPE mainly combines two components: i) a ground component that spontaneously emerges from any communicating devices (piece of infrastructure, mobile phone, etc) that cooperate to alert rescuers and remain all alive as long as possible and ii) an aerial component comprising UAV to communicate efficiently with ground devices. We show by simulation and/or by experimentation that each component of FLY-COPE allows substantial energy saving for efficient and fast disaster response.

Mots clés: Disaster recovery; mobile devices; multi-tier cooperative communication; UAV; drone-based data relaying; energy-efficient communication

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Farouk Mezghani, Nathalie Mitton. The potential of cooperative communications to speed up disaster relief operations. Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management (ICT-DM), Dec 2019, Paris, France. ⟨hal-02375707⟩