A Disaster-Resilient Messaging Protocol Based on Dew Computing

Communication is vitally important during disasters. This paper proposes a new messaging protocol that is resilient to the damaged network conditions caused by disasters based on the principles of dew computing. The goal of this messaging protocol is to make messengers adapt to both normal conditions and disastrous conditions. In a normal condition, the client-server architecture supports efficient communications; in a disastrous condition, the messengers will make full use of P2P and other possible communication links so that vital information can be transmitted whenever it is possible.