Research Article
The Role of the Internet of Things in Network Resilience
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-19743-2_39, author={Hauke Petersen and Emmanuel Baccelli and Matthias W\aa{}hlisch and Thomas Schmidt and Jochen Schiller}, title={The Role of the Internet of Things in Network Resilience}, proceedings={Internet of Things. IoT Infrastructures. First International Summit, IoT360 2014, Rome, Italy, October 27-28, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Part II}, proceedings_a={IOT360}, year={2015}, month={7}, keywords={Design of resilient IoT infrastructures IoT for crisis and emergency response}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-19743-2_39} }- Hauke Petersen
Emmanuel Baccelli
Matthias Wählisch
Thomas Schmidt
Jochen Schiller
Year: 2015
The Role of the Internet of Things in Network Resilience
IOT360
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-19743-2_39
Abstract
Disasters lead to devastating structural damage not only to buildings and transport infrastructure, but also to other critical infrastructure, such as the power grid and communication backbones. Following such an event, the availability of minimal communication services is however crucial to allow efficient and coordinated disaster response, to enable timely public information, or to provide individuals in need with a default mechanism to post emergency messages. The Internet of Things consists in the massive deployment of heterogeneous devices, most of which battery-powered, and interconnected via wireless network interfaces. In this paper, we argue that the vast deployment of IoT-enabled devices could bring benefits in terms of data network resilience in face of disaster. Leveraging their spontaneous wireless networking capabilities, IoT devices could enable minimal communication services (e.g. emergency micro-message delivery) while the conventional communication infrastructure is out of service. We identify the main challenges that must be addressed in order to realize this potential in practice. These challenges concern various technical aspects, including physical connectivity requirements, network protocol stack enhancements, data traffic prioritization schemes, as well as social and political aspects.
