NeTS-FIND: The-Day-After Networks: A First-Response Edge-Network Architecture for Disaster Relief

最近的天灾人祸暴露了我们国家通信基础设施的脆弱性。人们熟悉的通信服务，如手机和互联网连接，在紧急情况下会在需求达到顶峰时失败。因此，强大的网络架构必须侧重于灾难后的连通性。此外，由于灾难(希望)不会频繁发生，理想的解决方案应该只需要很少(如果有的话)额外的基础设施投资。相反，解决方案应该依赖于组织灾难期间已经可用的资源，通过巧妙地设计通信协议来改善连通性。该项目调查了灾后网络和通信的需求，确定了挑战和独特的新机遇，并自下而上开发了新的网络架构及其配套的协议套件。新的服务模式和通信模式是通过新的通信协议和架构服务实现的，两者都是为灾后通信的需求量身定做的，与现有的互联网有很大不同。该项目的更广泛影响将是对后天网络体系结构的完整设计和彻底评估，该体系结构可用于灾难救援、针对恶意攻击者的安全、面向应用程序、短期和长期可演变以及可由授权管理员管理。研究活动与伊利诺伊大学的教育课程相结合，解决了研究生课程、本科课程项目和高级本科论文中的几个子问题。该项目的成果通过研究出版物和与移动无线设备制造商的交流来传播。

Recent natural and man-made disasters have exposed the fragility of our national communication infrastructure. Familiar communication services, such as cell phones and Internet connections, fail in emergency situations when the need for them is at its peak. A robust network architecture must therefore focus on connectivity in the aftermath of disasters. Moreover, since disasters (hopefully) will not strike too often, an ideal solution should require little, if any, additional infrastructure investment. Rather, the solution should rely on organizing resources that are already available during a disaster to improve connectivity via clever design of communication protocols. This project investigates the requirements for post-disaster networking and communications, identifies the challenges and unique new opportunities, and develops a new network architecture and its companying protocol suite from the bottom up. The new service model and communication model are realized through novel communication protocols and architectural services, both tailored to the demands of post-disaster communications and very different from the existing Internet. The broader impact of this project will be the complete design and thorough evaluation of the-day-after network architecture that is available for disaster relief, secure against malicious attackers, application-oriented, evolvable in both short-term and long-term, and manageable by authorized administrators. The research activities integrate with the education curricula at the University of Illinois by addressing several of its sub-problems in graduate courses, undergraduate course projects and senior undergraduate theses. The results of this project are disseminated through both research publications and communications with the manufactures of the mobile wireless devices.