Oh Dear! It’s Just a Tool to Plan the Deployment of a Post-Disaster Network!

In this paper, we present a software tool for planning the deployment of a rapid-deployable opportunistic network for post-disaster communication establishment in the absence of mobile and other conventional networks. Such a network may be used by Government Agencies and NGOs working for disaster management to coordinate their rescue-relief workers when there is a complete or partial communication blackout. Having a rough knowledge on the affected area (through satellite imagery or otherwise), the location of the control station, and the maximum tolerable delay bound by the opportunistic (DTN) network, the proposed tool could provide with the required communication resources to achieve the desired goal and a deployment plan of the same so that the obtained network has packet delivery delay within the desired delay bound.