A New Mobile Agent System for Sharing Disaster Information Under Unstable Network Conditions

Current network systems destined for collecting disaster information can be categorized into two types: (1) centralized systems collecting all information to a center server, and (2) distributed systems collecting information to several local servers at geographically distributed area. By the system (1), we can understand the disaster condition from a higher perspective. However, the system requires reliable connections. On the other hand, the system (2) can easier to obtain disaster information although it is limited by geographically. Both systems of (1) and (2) are useful for disaster relief activities even though these systems contribute to different perspective. In this paper, we discuss a new disaster information sharing system based on mobile agent. The proposed system implemented on Raspberry pi are evaluated on our test bed.