Information-centric fog computing for disaster relief

Abstract

Natural disasters like earthquakes and typhoons are bringing huge casualties and losses to modern society every year. As the main foundation of the information age, host-centric network infrastructure is easily disrupted during disasters. In this paper, we focus on combining Information-Centric Networking (ICN) and fog computing in solving the problem of emergency networking and fast communication. We come up with the idea from six degrees of separation theory (SDST) in achieving Information-Centric Fog Computing (ICFC) for disaster relief. Our target is to model the relationship of network nodes and design a novel name-based routing strategy using SDST. In the simulation part, we evaluate and compare our work with existing routing methods in ICN. The results show that our strategy can help improve work efficiency in name-based routing under the limitation of post-disaster scenario.