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Towards Better Understanding the Challenges of Reliable and Trust-Aware Critical Communications in the Aftermath of Disaster

Radenkovic, Milena; Walker, Adam; Bai, Li

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Authors

ADAM WALKER Adam.Walker@nottingham.ac.uk
Assistant Professor

Li Bai



Abstract

This paper seeks to better understand the highly multi-dimensional, multi-faceted challenges of meeting trust and reliability requirements in critical, disaster aftermath communication networks comprising heterogeneous groups of sensor equipped nodes. Through emulation of a UK based flooding event in the South of England we show the impact of selfish and malicious nodes on disaster communications when disparate, distributed, and disconnected nodes are carrying sensitive messages relating to resource availability and need. To further support the need for trust-aware schemes in such environments we compare benchmark DTN protocols against our reliable, trust-aware framework, TACID, which penalises and excludes malicious nodes. We show that in disaster aftermath networks trust-aware schemes can significantly reduce the impact of malicious intermediary nodes and increase overall reliability whilst simultaneously maintaining message confidentiality.

Citation

Radenkovic, M., Walker, A., & Bai, L. (2018). Towards Better Understanding the Challenges of Reliable and Trust-Aware Critical Communications in the Aftermath of Disaster. In IWCMC 2018: the 14th International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (648-653). https://doi.org/10.1109/IWCMC.2018.8450430

Conference Name 2018 14th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, IWCMC 2018
Conference Location Limassol, Cyprus
Start Date Jun 25, 2018
End Date Jun 29, 2018
Acceptance Date Apr 1, 2018
Online Publication Date Aug 30, 2018
Publication Date Aug 28, 2018
Deposit Date May 18, 2018
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Pages 648-653
Series ISSN 2376-6506
Book Title IWCMC 2018: the 14th International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference
ISBN 978-1-5386-2071-7
DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/IWCMC.2018.8450430
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/941737
Publisher URL https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8450430/
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