Author : Abhishek K Yadav, Ashish Xavier Das, Mayur Kumar and A.K. Jaiswal

Disaster situation analyses have been considered to be one important and difficult process which constitutes important phases of experimentations. In these types of situations it becomes difficult for the rescue teams to provide reliefs on existing infrastructures which has high probability of bursting the whole communication backbone. Therefore the establishment of a temporary communication system is required for such purpose. In a temporary or ad-hoc communication system the mobility of the nodes plays a vital role in the proper collection of data. With the involvement of MANET infrastructure this problem can be solved to a higher extend. MANETs are expected to increasingly play an effective role in civilian and military environments. In this article the consideration of mobile ad-hoc network for battle field disaster management is focused, where proper medical facilities to the injured soldiers are difficult in providing. For this purpose various mobility models are considered for the movement of nodes (i.e. Ambulance) and the soldiers in a particular battalion. We have proposed a scenario which consists of soldiers in groups and mobile nodes i.e. ambulance in another group. The Performance of various MANET routing protocols in the considered scenario have been compared.

Keywords: MANET, AODV, ZRP, STAR, LANMAR, RPGM, RWP

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.6, No.4 (Aug-2016)