Cognitive Wireless Network for Large Scale Disaster

Severe damages hits at the Northern part of Japan on March 11, 2011. A massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake caused network disconnection over the wide area of Japan, and it brought serious damages with blackouts, fire, tsunami and nuclear plant crisis. Recorded as 9.0 on the Richter scale, it was the most powerful quake ever to hit Japan. At this disaster, our project team held network relief activities in some coast cities in Iwate prefecture. The satellite system and 3G system is provided as the network relief activities. In this paper, our network relief activities in evacuated places or disaster headquarters are introduced. Then, with the consideration of the activities, the policies under large scale disaster are discussed for the proposal data transmission methods of Cognitive Wireless Network.