Opportunistic Networks for Emergency Preparedness and Response, submitted for publication.pdfVIP

PAPER IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: TBA 1 Standard Implementation Framework for Opportunistic Networks in Emergency Preparedness and Response Applications * Leszek Lilien, Senior Member, IEEE , Ajay Gupta, Senior Member, IEEE, Zijiang Yang, Member, IEEE Wireless Sensornet Laboratory (WiSe Lab), Department of Computer Science Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5466 many new categories of networks including wireless, ad hoc, Abstract—We present a novel paradigm of opportunistic net- mobile, and sensor networks [AgZe02, IyBr03]. works or oppnets in the context of Emergency Preparedness and To the best of our knowledge, opportunistic networks as de- Response (EPR). Oppnets constitute the category of ad hoc net- fined by us are the network subarea not studied by others.† An works where diverse systems, not employed originally as nodes of earlier paper co-authored by one of us [BLRW04] was the first an oppnet, join it dynamically in order to perform certain tasks to define opportunistic sensor networks, a subclass of oppnets. they have been called to participate in. After describing the opp- This paper, after describing the oppnets, shows applicability of nets and their operation, we discuss the Oppnet Virtual Machine (OVM)—a standard implementation framework for oppnet appli- oppnets for EPR applications. cations. We also s