Reliable Communication in Post Disaster Environment Using Delay Tolerant Network (DTN)

Authors: Chandrima Chakrabarti, Bingshati Mondal, Arindam Das, Nabanita Das, Krishnendu Roy, Disha Basu, Swapnendu Kolay, Rakesh Ghosh

Published in: Journal of Computer Science and Engineering in Innovations and Research (ISSN No: 3049-1762 online)

Publication Date: May 15, 2025

📄 Abstract

Natural disasters like earthquakes, landslides, floods, and cyclonic storms cause severe damage to local communication facilities resulting in delays in rescue operations. In those situations, reliable communication establishment is very crucial to cooperating with rescue operations. Disaster responders require a high volume of accurate data with less disruption time. These needs can only be fulfilled through Delay Tolerant Network (DTN), as this paper proposes the use of reliable communication in a post-disaster environment.

Implementing a Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) communication system and evaluating the efficiency of the rate of data transmission, network coverage, and network security in terms of data encryption-decryption, amount of energy to be consumed, considerable disruption and noise in the data during transmission. This paperwork proposes the DTN system which gives a high rate of data transmission, low energy consumption, wide network coverage, node base encryption-decryption security and low delay or disruption during data transmission. To check the efficiency of the designed DTN-system model Opportunistic Network Environment (ONE) is used.

🔑 Keywords

Delay or Disruption Tolerant Network (DTN), energy consumption, data transmission rate, network coverage, node encryption-decryption security, post-disaster management