Runtime service recovery for open information gateway

How to effectively exchange information between parties in a disaster management system is one of the fundamental challenges to support timely and efficient disaster response and relief. Specifically, the timeliness, scalability, and availability are three desirable features for information exchange. We call the framework to support information exchange with the three features an Open Information Gateway (OIGY). In this paper, we present and experiment the mechanisms to recover communication service during and after disasters for Open Information Gateway. The designed mechanisms adopt long distance radio to support tele-communication and computer networks, dynamic power adjustment for radio stations to maximize the radio recovery with minimal interference, and dynamic MESH routers to connect devices located in different networks. We experimented the proposed mechanism on a physical communication testbeds to measure the delay for service recovery and reliability of the proposed mechanism.