著者

Masaaki Ohnishi Masugi Inoue Hiroaki Harai

雑誌

情報処理学会論文誌 (ISSN:18827764)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.54, no.2, 2013-02-15

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In wide-area disaster situations, wireless mesh networks lose data communication reachability among arbitrary pairs of base stations due to the loss of routing information propagation and synchronization. This paper uses a Delaunay overlay approach to propose a distributed networking method in which detour overlay paths are incrementally added to a wireless mesh network in wide-area disaster situations. For this purpose, the following functions are added to each base station for wireless multi-hop communication: obtaining the spatial location, exchanging spatial location messages between base stations, transferring data based on spatial locations of base stations. The proposed method always constructs a Delaunay overlay network with detour paths on the condition that a set of wireless links provides a connected graph even if it does not initially provide reachability among arbitrary base stations in the connected graph. This is different from the previous method that assumes a connected graph and reachability. This paper therefore also shows a new convergence principle and implementation guidelines that do not interfere with the existing convergence principle. A simulation is then used to evaluate the detour length and table size of the proposed method. It shows that the proposed method has scalability. This scalability provides adaptable low-link quality and increases the number of nodes in wide-area disaster situations.------------------------------This is a preprint of an article intended for publication Journal ofInformation Processing(JIP). This preprint should not be cited. Thisarticle should be cited as: Journal of Information Processing Vol.21(2013) No.2 (online)DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.2197/ipsjjip.21.216------------------------------