DISARM

Overview

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During post disaster recovery period communication services are either not available or partially available. In times of limited communication services like these, innovative wireless networking applications can be helpful for systematizing chaotic situations. Disarm project aims in providing service and network level solutions for tackling various challenges related to the Post-Disaster Situation. The project is about developing a 4-tier, low cost, fast deployable and disaster-tolerant wireless communication infrastructure. A robust framework will be investigated and developed that will lead to a global need assessment from the piecewise localized views of the rescue teams and victims. Disarm’s major innovation lies in the construction of a coherent picture for overall situation analysis from different, partial, inflated, multi-modal information and development of distributed methods for post-disaster service management in presence of uncertainty that may range from unreliable (wireless) network links to diverse background of the victims as well as volunteers. This will also provide a coordination system to guide resource distribution among disaster victims. Experience gained from this project will enhance the preparedness of relief agencies and the first responder which will improve the use of smart devices for better coordination of relief efforts.

Mentors/Collaborators

MENTORS:

  • Dr. Sajal K. Das, Missouri S&T, USA
  • Dr. Sukumar Ghosh, University of Iowa, USA
  • Dr. Subir Biswas, Michigan State University, USA
  • Dr. Arjun Katoch, United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination & NDMA

COLLABORATORS:

  • Dr. Romit Roy Choudhary, University of Illinois, USA
  • Dr. Pradipta De, SUNY, Korea.
  • Industry: Flipkart, Google and Microsoft
  • NGO: SPADE and Indian Red Cross Society

Key Outcomes


(8 )
Title: Smartphone computing and applications
Institutes: IIT-KGP

Remarks: Avg. enrolment per offering: 22

Links/URL: http://www.facweb.iitkgp.ernet.in/~niloy/COURSE/Autumn2014/SmartPhone/index-2015.html

Title: Ubiquitous computing
Institutes: IIT-KGP

Remarks: Avg. enrolment per offering: 20

Links/URL: http://cse.iitkgp.ac.in/~bivasm/UB2016.html

Title: Performance Modeling of Computer Networks
Institutes: IIT-KGP

Remarks: Avg. enrolment per offering: 42

Links/URL: http://cse.iitkgp.ac.in/~sandipc/Courses/CS_60019_Autumn_2017.html

Title: Internet architecture and protocols
Institutes: IIT-KGP

Remarks: Avg. enrolment per offering: 66

Links/URL: http://cse.iitkgp.ac.in/~sandipc/Courses/CS_60019_Autumn_2015.html

Title: Creating and Managing ICT-Based Innovative Startup with a focus on Social Entrepreneur Development
Institutes: IIM-CAL

Remarks: Avg. enrolment per offering: 100

Title: Complex Networks
Institutes: NIT-DURGAPUR

Remarks: Avg. enrolment per offering: 15

Links/URL: https://sites.google.com/view/complex-network

Title: Mobile Computing
Institutes: NIT-DURGAPUR

Remarks: Avg. enrolment per offering: 10

Links/URL: https://sites.google.com/site/delaytolerantnetwork/mobile-computing

Title: Internet of Things
Institutes: NIT-DURGAPUR

Remarks: Avg. enrolment per offering: 9

Links/URL: https://sites.google.com/view/intelligent-sensing

(4 )
Title: Systems and Mobile Research Lab
Institutes: IIT-KGP
Links/URL: http://cnerg.org

Title: ITRA Lab
Institutes: KGEC-KALYANI
Links/URL: http://kgecitra.wixsite.com/kgecmca

Title: Complex Networks Research Lab
Institutes: KGEC-KALYANI
Links/URL: http://cnerg.org

Title: Mobile Computing and Networking Research Lab
Institutes: NIT-DURGAPUR
Links/URL: http://nitdgp.ac.in/mcnrg

(1 )
Title: Peer to Peer Networks
Institutes: NIT-DURGAPUR

Remarks: Avg. enrolment per offering: 10

(2 )
Title: Mobile Computing Lab
Institutes: IIEST-SHIBPUR

Remarks: Avg. enrolment per offering: 25

Title: Wireless Communication and Networks
Institutes: IIEST-SHIBPUR

Remarks: Avg. enrolment per offering: 40

(1 )
Title: FORMATIVE RESILIENCE KNOW-HOW PRIVATE LIMITED (ForkIT)
Institutes: NIT-DURGAPUR

Remarks: Registration date: 24/07/2017

(10 )
Title: School organized along with Machine Learning and Complex Network Workshop

Remarks: Date: March 2015
Participants: 100

Title: Summer Internship

Remarks: Date: 15th May 2015 to 30th June 2015
Participants: 22

Title: Winter Internship

Remarks: Date: 2013-2014
Participants: 6

Title: Summer Internship

Remarks: Date: 2014
Participants: 13

Title: Winter Internship

Remarks: Date: 2014-2015
Participants: 14

Title: Summer Internship

Remarks: Date: 2017
Participants: 9

Title: Summer Internship

Remarks: Date: 2018
Participants: 2

Title: Winter Internship

Remarks: Date: 2017-2018
Participants: 1

Title: Workshop on Big Data Analytics and Management
Institutes: IIEST-SHIBPUR

Remarks: Date: September, 2016
Participants: 50

Title: Workshop on Advanced Android Programming
Institutes: IIM-CAL

Remarks: Date: June, 2017
Participants: 20
Jointly organized by IIMC and HIT Kolkata

(12 )
Title: Changing Communication Paradigm using Mobile Devices in Next Generation Network
Institutes: IIEST-SHIBPUR

Remarks: Date: Dec-Jan 2015
Participants: 30
Organized by IIEST Shibhpur and HIT Kolkata

Links/URL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClQus0jQFfi0_dtzHfdTIyA

Title: Quality Enhancement of Engineering Education
Institutes: IIT-KGP

Remarks: Date: September 2017
Participants: 50

Title: Recent Trends in Opportunistic and Social Networks and its Applications

Remarks: Date: 2015
Participants: 80
Organized jointly by NIT Durgapur and KGEC Kalyani

Links/URL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZSB4rE3k6N-8dvNRBYSYKQ/videos

Title: Machine Learning and Complex Network Workshop

Remarks: Short term course
Date: 2015

Title: Joint Short-term Course along with Government/Non-governmental organizations
Title: One 1-week short term course

Remarks: Date: June-July, 2015

Title: Dynamics On and Of Complex Networks
Institutes: IIEST-SHIBPUR

Remarks: Date: June 2015
Participants: 50

Title: Dynamics On and Of Complex Networks
Institutes: IIEST-SHIBPUR

Remarks: Date: September 2016
Participants: 50

Title: First Workshop on Exploitation of Social Media for Emergency Relief and Preparedness (SMERP 2017)
Institutes: IIEST-SHIBPUR

Remarks: Date: April, 2017
Participants: 30

Title: Utilising Online Social Media for Disaster Management
Institutes: IIEST-SHIBPUR

Remarks: Date: January, 2016
Participants:80

Title: Community Participation in Disaster Management: Addressing the Practical Challenges Faced While Offering Services in Disaster Scenario at Kalyani Govt. Engineering College
Institutes: HIT-KOL

Remarks: Date: November, 2016
Participants: 50

Title: Keyword Queries for Product Search
Institutes: IIEST-SHIBPUR

Remarks: Date: December, 2017
Participants:50

(9 )
Title: A one-day lecture session
Institutes: KGEC-KALYANI

Remarks: Date:17/11/2016
Participants: 30

Title: 3 day AEC talk in collaboration with NIT DGP, KGEC and IIT KGP

Remarks: Date: 21/12/2016 to 23/12/2016
Participants: 20

Title: One 1-day lecture series

Remarks: Date: April 2015

Title: Wireless Sensor Network in the context of Big Data Handling
Institutes: IIEST-SHIBPUR

Remarks: Date: November, 2014
Participants:35

Title: Application of smart-phone based DTN for providing Disaster Management Services in Short Term Course on Communication Paradigm using Mobile Devices in Next Generation Network organized at IIEST Shibpur
Institutes: HIT-KOL

Remarks: Date: June 2015
Participants: 30

Title: DTN in Disaster Management in a short-term course on Recent Trends in Opportunistic and Social Networks and its applications organized by Kalyani Govt. Engineering College
Institutes: HIT-KOL

Remarks: Date: July 2015
Participants: 50

Title: Post Disaster Situation Analysis using Delay Tolerant Network in the context of developing countries
Institutes: IIEST-SHIBPUR

Remarks: Date: May, 2016
Participants:40

Title: Wireless Sensor Networks: Basics,Technology and Applications
Institutes: IIEST-SHIBPUR

Remarks: Date: August, September, 2016
Participants:35

Title: Energy Efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks
Institutes: IIEST-SHIBPUR

Remarks: Date: March,2017
Participants:35

(4 )
Title: Video Lecture series on Short term course on Recent Trends in Opportunistic and Social Networks and its applications
Institutes: KGEC-KALYANI

Remarks: Participants: 70

Links/URL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZSB4rE3k6N-8dvNRBYSYKQ/videos

Title: Lecture sessions of the Short term course on " Changing Communication Paradigm using Mobile Devices in Next Generation Network

Remarks: Participants: 30
Jointly organized by IIEST Shibhpur and HIT Kolkata

Links/URL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClQus0jQFfi0_dtzHfdTIyA

Title: NPTEL MOOC Course on Blockchain
Institutes: IIT-KGP
Links/URL: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc18_cs47/preview

Title: NPTEL MOOC Computer Networks and Internet Protocol
Institutes: IIT-KGP
Links/URL: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc18_cs38/preview

(17 )
Title: NetSciCom 2016 at INFOCOM 2016

Remarks: Date: 2016
Participants: 35

Title: Workshop on Feasibility in using Amateur Radio in Post Disaster Communication

Remarks: Date: July 10, 2016
Participants: 20

Title: One-day workshop with SPADE on "Proposed Post Disaster Management System Prototype Validation Workshop”

Remarks: Date: June 18, 2016
Participants: 20

Title: IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems for Coordinated Disaster Management, CORDIM 2016

Remarks: Date: 2nd-3rd January 2016
Participants: 100

Title: on Pear to Pear file synchronization and Intelligent Transport System" organized Jointly with IIT Kharagpur and KGEC Kalyani
Institutes: NIT-DURGAPUR

Remarks: Date: 28th April to 1st May 2016
Participants: 20

Title: Invited Talk by Prof. Abhijit Kundu, Adjunct Professor, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra on “post-disaster rescue/relief situation in coastal regions of West Bengal”
Institutes: NIT-DURGAPUR

Remarks: Date: December 17-18, 2015
Participants: 15

Title: The importance of nodes in dynamic networks. by Clemence Magnien Senior Researcher, CNRS at LiP6

Remarks: December 9, 2014

Title: Towards Catching Click-Spam on Facebook Ads by Saikat Guha Microsoft Research, India

Remarks: Date: Feb 10, 2015

Title: Systemic Intelligence Amod Malviya CTO Flipkart

Remarks: January 18, 2015

Title: Multiplex networks: a Generative Model and Algorithmic Complexity by Ravi Sundaram Professor College of Computer and Information Science Northeastern University

Remarks: Date: July 03, 2015

Title: Research Promotion Workshop

Remarks: Date: May 2015

Title: Machine Learning and Complex Networks Workshop

Remarks: Date: February 2015
Participants: 100

Title: MLCN International Workshop
Title: DOOCN International Workshop

Remarks: Date: June 2017
Participants: 100

Title: TEQIP-II sponsored Workshop: Introduction to Opportunistic Mobile Networks and Its Applications

Remarks: Date: 2014
Participants: 45

Title: Joint Workshop with KGEC: Recent Trends in Opportunistic and Social Networks and its Applications

Remarks: Date: 2015
Participants: 70

Title: International Conference on the Networked Digital Earth

Remarks: Date: March 2018
Participants: 150

(3 )
Title: Training to different Self Help Groups of Chandanpiri Village, WB for using Interactive SMS

Remarks: Year: 2016

Title: IBM Day
Institutes: IIT-KGP

Remarks: Year: October 2015

Title: Training to 50 Self Help Group members of Kandi, Murshidabad, using Smart phone

Remarks: Year: 2017

(6 )
Title: NDMA, NDRF etc.

Remarks: Collaboration Area: Mock test of Cyclone in Sandeshkhali - 1 Block, Nazat Cyclone center, North 24 Parganas on July 15, 2016

Title: NDMA, NDRF etc.

Remarks: Collaboration Area: Mock Drill on Flood at Kandi Sub-Division in Murshidabad District from 17th to 21th August, 2016 for ground testing the device prototypes and software systems

Title: CISF long with firefighting teams

Remarks: Collaboration Area: to improve their response with this system in place

Title: West Bengal State Disaster Management Authority

Remarks: Collaboration Area: Pilot testing of the system at their disaster management sites in Asansol/Durgapur Region, West Bengal

Title: Durgapur Steel Plant (SAIL)

Remarks: Collaboration Area: Mock Drill on Gas Leakage at Durgapur, June, 2017

Title: Directorate of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises, Govt. of West Bengal

Remarks: Collaboration Area: Spreading digital literacy across the Artisans , October 2017

(6 )
Title: Doctors For You (IIMC, IIEST, HIT

Remarks: Collaboration Area: Post disaster situation analysis, data collection for resource mapping and field trial for developed Android apps.

Title: CASA

Remarks: Collaboration Area: collection of information on current disaster management practices and scope of using ICT in disaster management

Title: SPADE (an NGO working for empowerment of rural communities of West Bengal)

Remarks: Collaboration Area: collection of information on current disaster management practices and scope of using ICT in disaster management

Title: Social Informatics Research Group, IIMC
Institutes: IIM-CAL

Remarks: Collaboration Area: Techno-Management Advisor and Project Coordinator

Title: Chandanpiri Sri Ramakrishna Mission Ashram, Namkhana

Remarks: Collaboration Area: Local community service organization managing local facilities

Title: Banglanatak dot com

Remarks: Collaboration Area: : "Online Training Programme on Work-place English and Digital Literacy" in three villages of West Bengal in districts of Bankura, Burdwan and West Medinipur.

(9 )
Title: NCoRe: Information System for Next Generation Collaborative and Responsive Community
Institutes: IIM-CAL
Title: Disaster Messenger
Institutes: IIEST-SHIBPUR
Title: Information Drop Box for temporary data storage during disaster to help offline data exchange in store-carry-forward mechanism (hardware)
Institutes: NIT-DURGAPUR
Title: DisarmConnect for P2P connection on devices (software)
Title: pSync for P2P synchronization of information (software)
Title: DMS mobile app for situational information collection (software)
Title: UrbanEye: A Smartphone Based Navigation cum Alert System to Assist Travel in Public Buses
Title: CTMR-Collaborative Time-Stamp based Multicast Routing for Delay Tolerant Networks in Post Disaster Scenario.
Title: A prototype Resource Allocation Tool using Google Map API and ONE Simulator for help allocating network resources for building efficient post-disaster communication framework
(1 )
Title: Spreading awareness for disasters at national level

Remarks: Offered to: Disaster managers from Assam & Nagaland (NDRA & NDRF)

(4 )
Title: BOS member
Institutes: IIEST-SHIBPUR

Remarks: Prof. Sipra Das Bit since 2013

Title: BOS member
Institutes: HIT-KOL

Remarks: Prof. Siuli Roy since 2013

Title: NBA
Institutes: IIEST-SHIBPUR

Remarks: Prof. Sipra Das Bit since 2012

Title: AICTE
Institutes: IIEST-SHIBPUR

Remarks: Prof. Sipra Das Bit since 2013

Institutions

IIT-KGP - Lead Institution IIM-CAL - Lead Institution IIEST-SHIBPUR - Partner Institution NIT-DURGAPUR - Partner Institution KGEC-KALYANI - Partner Institution HIT-KOL - Partner Institution

Team Members

Publications


1.

Fairness in Message Delivery in Delay Tolerant Networks
Animesh RoyEmail authorTamaghna AcharyaSipra DasBit ; Wireless Networks Springer ;2019
2.

A Novel Network Architecture for Resource-Constrained Post-Disaster Environments
Krishnandu Hazra?;?Vijay K. Shah?;?Mohd Bilal?;?Simone Silvestri?;?Sajal K. Das?;?Subrata Nandi?;?Sujoy Saha; COMSNETS, Bangalore;2019
3.

SURAKSHIT: A smartphone-based application for `Localized' GIS Data Aggregation in absence of Internet
Partha Sarathi Paul, Naman Mehta, Aman Kumar Das, Sourav Agarwal, Sujoy Saha, Subrata Nandi ; ICDCN '19?Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking;2019
4.

iSecure: Imperceptible and Secure Peer-to-peer Communication of Post-disaster Situational Data over Opportunistic DTN
Chandrima Chakrabarti,? Siuli Roy; ICDCN '19?Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking;2019
5.

Blended learning to improve quality of primary education among underprivileged school children in India
Priyadarshini Dey and Somprakash Bandyopadhyay; Education and Information Technologies;2019
6.

On Designing a Fast-Deployable `Localized' GIS Platform for using `Offline' during Post-Disaster Situation
Partha Sarathi Paul, Chandrika Mukherjee, Bishakh Chandra Ghosh, Sudipta Pandit; ICDCN '19?Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking;2019
7.

Post-disaster map builder: Crowdsensed digital pedestrian map construction of the disaster affected areas through smartphone based DTN
Suman Bhattacharjee, Siuli Roy, Sipra Das Bit; Computer Communications;2019