Evaluation of HNEC Protocol in Different Emergency Application Scenarios

Emergency networks, especially networks of disaster recovery, have been the focus of active research in many countries. That is due to the broad impact of disasters´ frequent occurrences, and casualties. The Hybrid Network Emergency Communication (HNEC) protocol is proposed [9] which establishes a heterogeneous network disaster recovery (NDR) that includes non-IP systems to achieve emergency requirements and network cooperation. This paper evaluates HNEC protocol within different application scenarios by simulation and measuring routing performance in message delivery, end-to-end delay, and routing overhead.