NDN-based Emergency Communication over Edge Computing Infrastructure

Accurate and reliable communication between emergency teams when dealing with disaster situations plays a decisive part in an effective disaster recovery phase for any country. To support communication between large, frequently roles and location change responder team members, network need to be flexible, scalable, and has mobility built-in feature. Recently, Named Data Networking (NDN) has emerged as a promising network solution for those requirements. However, because network infrastructure is usually heavily damaged when disaster happens, quickly installing a network architecture to enable communication over NDN with limited resources is a challenging issue. In this paper, we solve the mentioned problem by proposing our integrated NDN-edge computing system, with KubeEdge as the implementation edge platform. We also introduce an NDN message delivery design that satisfies requirements for emergency communication between responder devices.