Alternative Opportunistic Alert Diffusion to Support Infrastructure Failure during Disasters.

Opportunistic communications present a promising solution for disaster network recovery in emergency situations such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and floods, where infrastructure might be destroyed. Some recent works in the literature have proposed opportunistic-based disaster recovery solutions, but they have omitted the consideration of mobile devices that come with different network technologies and various initial energy levels. This work presents COPE, an energy-aware ooperative portunistic alrt diffusion scheme for trapped survivors to use during disaster scenarios to report their position and ease their rescue operation.