Abstract
The natural or man-made disaster demands an efficient communication and coordination among first responders to save life and other community resources. Normally, the traditional communication infrastructures such as landline or cellular networks are damaged and don’t provide adequate communication services to first responders for exchanging emergency related information. Wireless ad hoc networks such as mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks and wireless mesh networks are the promising alternatives in such type of situations. The security requirements for emergency response communications include privacy, data integrity, authentication, key management, access control and availability. Various ad hoc communication frameworks have been proposed for emergency response situations. The majority of the proposed frameworks don’t provide adequate security services for reliable and secure information exchange. This paper presents a survey of the proposed emergency response communication frameworks and the potential security services required by them to provide reliable and secure information exchange during emergency situations.
Highlights
It is a great challenge for modern societies to cope with crisis situations that arise due to natural or man-made disasters
Mobile ad hoc networks [3], wireless sensor networks [4] and wireless mesh networks [5] are commonly used as communication means in such type of situations
This paper presents a survey of various communication frameworks for emergency response along with their security requirements
Summary
It is a great challenge for modern societies to cope with crisis situations that arise due to natural or man-made disasters. The availability of telecommunication services is of great importance These systems provide a means for communication among first responders and affected people. Mobile ad hoc networks [3], wireless sensor networks [4] and wireless mesh networks [5] are commonly used as communication means in such type of situations These systems are deployed without need of any existing telecommunication infrastructure. The malicious nodes may try to temper with the routing and data messages or inject erroneous messages in the network These behaviours affect the reliability of emergency response networks and might result into mismanagement of emergency response efforts.
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