Behavior of Wireless Body-to-Body Networks Routing Strategies for Public Protection and Disaster Relief.

Comportement de protocoles de routage sans fils de corps a corps pour la surete publique et le sauvetage dans un contexte de desastre.

Dhafer Ben Arbia (1, 2) , Muhammad Mahtab Mma Alam (3) , Rabah Attia (2) , Elyes Ben Hamida (4)

1 Qatar Mobility Innovations Center
2 SERCOM - Laboratoire Systèmes électroniques et réseaux de communications (Ecole polytechnique de Tunisie)
3 Purdue University [West Lafayette]
4 IRT SystemX

Critical and public safety operations require real-time data transfer from the incident area(s) to the distant operations command center going through the evacuation and medical support areas. Any delay in communication may cause significant loss. In some cases, it is anticipated that the existing communication infrastructures can be damaged or out-of-service. It is thus required to deploy tactical ad-hoc networks to cover the operation zones. Routing data over the deployed network is a significant challenge with consideration to the operations conditions. In this paper we evaluate the performance of mutli-hop routing protocols while using different wireless technologies in an urban critical and emergency scenario. Using a realistic mobility model, Mobile Ad hoc, geographic based and data-centric routing protocols are evaluated with different communication technologies (i.e. WiFi IEEE 802.11; WSN IEEE 802.15.4; WBAN IEEE 802.15.6). It is concluded that, WiFi IEEE 802.11 is the best wireless technology with consideration to the packet reception rate and the energy consumption. Whereas, in terms of delay, WBAN IEEE 802.15.6 is the most efficient. With regards to the routing protocols, assuming that the location information is available, geographical based routing protocol with WiFi IEEE 802.11 performed much better compared to the others routing protocols. In case where the location information is unavailable, gradient based routing protocol with WBAN IEEE 802.15.6 seems the best combination.

Mots clés: Tactical Ad-hoc Networks; Public Safety and Emergency; Routing Protocols; IEEE 802.11; IEEE 802.15.4; IEEE 802.15.6; Performance Evaluation; WBAN technology; Aodvv2; OLSRv2; directed diffusion; GPSR

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]; Calcul parallèle, distribué et partagé [cs.DC]; Algorithme et structure de données [cs.DS]; Informatique ubiquitaire

Dhafer Ben Arbia, Muhammad Mahtab Mma Alam, Rabah Attia, Elyes Ben Hamida. Behavior of Wireless Body-to-Body Networks Routing Strategies for Public Protection and Disaster Relief.. WiMob, Oct 2015, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. ⟨hal-01649924⟩