MANET based emergency communication system for natural disasters

Natural disaster stricken many areas of world every year, efficiency of rescue operation is very critical to life saving of trapped victims. However, cellular communication system is usually crashed when disaster hits an area which makes coordination very difficult among rescue volunteer teams. Unfortunately many of existing emergency communication system may not be feasible. In this paper, we proposed concept of hybrid cellular-MANET architecture which use working cellular base station if they are not crashed. We also give a routing scheme for this emergency scenario which efficiently utilize available communication and energy resources of devices. The proposed emergency communication architecture is aware of mobility of devices and also support self organizing feature of MANET. This communication model can be setup in disaster hit area within few hours.