Enhancing Disaster Response: A Study on SDN-Integrated Alarm and Alert Systems Using Cooja Simulations

This paper describes an in-depth simulation study performed on Cooja to assess the efficacy of SDN (Software-Defined Networking) integrated alarm and warning systems for improving disaster response efficiency. The research looks at the performance of SDN-enabled alarm and alert systems in catastrophe scenarios like earthquakes when timely and accurate alerts are critical for rapid response and risk mitigation. The simulation analyses the system’s response time, network efficiency, and scalability to establish the benefits of SDN integration in enhancing the dependability and responsiveness of alarm and alert systems during important events. The simulation compares the present RPL protocol to the SDN protocol and runs simulations, evaluating the results and drawing conclusions from them. It also suggests the challenges in incorporating SDN protocols in IoT Networks and ways to decrease network traffic, congestion and other metrics.