Secured Decentralized Disaster Management Information Network

Natural and man-made disasters, such as earthquakes, floods, storm, structural collapses (dams, thermal power stations etc), pose an ever-present challenge to public emergency services. In order to cope with such disasters in a fast and highly coordinated manner, the optimal provision of information concerning the situation is an essential pre-requisite. Police, Fire Departments, Public Health, Civil Defense and other organizations have to react not only efficiently and individually, but also in a coordinated manner. This results in the need for both Intra and Inter Organization communication at several stages. Since lack of communication implies lack of information flow to government and other agencies, this would not only hamper taking timely action but also hinder efficient resource usage and management.
The objective of this project was to investigate computer-mediated disaster communication system using rapidly deployable mobile computing and wireless communication technology and to realize a prototype of a Secure Decentralized Disaster Management System and Information Network. The project was funded by Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, Govt. of India

Publications:

1. Parama Bhaumik, Somprokash Bandyopadhyay “A Location -Aided Content Searching Mechanism for Large Mobile Ad Hoc Network using Geographic Clusters” published in proceedings of 9th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking ICDCN 2008 , 5-8 January 2008 Kolkata ,India.
2. Parama Bhaumik, Somprokash Bandhopadhyay “A Mobility Tolerant Cluster Management Protocol with Dynamic Surrogate Cluster-heads for A Large Ad Hoc Network” , published in proceedings of 8th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking ICDCN 2006 , IIT Guwahati 29-31 December.
3. Parama Bhaumik, Somprokash Bandhopadhyay, “ An Efficient Cluster Management Protocol using GPS Based Geographic Clustering with Surrogate Cluster-heads for a Large Ad hoc Network “, accepted in World Mobile Congress 3-7 July 2006 , Munich Germany.
4. M Scalem, "A Model Approach to an Integrated Real-Time Computer Mediated Information Network System (D2MINS) through Wireless and Mobile Networking as Enabling Technologies", PhD Thesis, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, 2006.
5. M Scalem, Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, Ashok K Sircar,Sushanta Sinha, "A Decentralized Disaster Management Information Network (DDMIN) for Coordinated Relief Operations", 9th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI 2005), Orlando, USA, July 10-13, 2005.
6. Parama Bhaumik, Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, "Mobile Agent Based Message Communication in Large Ad hoc Networks through Co-operative Routing using Inter-Agent Negotiation at Rendezvous Points", Accepted in IWDC 2005, IIT, Kharagpur, India, 27-30 December ,2005.
7. Parama Bhaumik , M. Scalem, Siuli Roy, Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, "Content-based Query Support in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks using Information-Fading and Narrow-Casting for Efficient Resource Handling in Disaster Management" , Accepted in IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, Dresden, Germany, 19-23 June 2005.
8. M. Scalem , Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, Sushanta Sinha, Ashok K Sircar," Decentralised Disaster Management Information Network (DDMIN): Research Discussions on the inherent Technological and Strategic Implementation Issues and proposed Solutions", Accepted in CISTM 2005, New Delhi, India, July 24-26, 2005.
9. M. Scalem, S. Bandyopadhyay, and A.K. Sircar , "An Approach Towards a Decentralised Disaster Management Information Network", Accepted in Asian Applied Computing Conference (AACC 2004) , Nepal, Oct. 29-31 2004.