A QoS enabled positioning, sensing, and communication system for first responders

Author

Ho, Phil ; Liu, Ren Ping ; Hedley, Mark ; Yang, Xun

Author_Institution

Wireless & Networking Technol. Lab., Commonwealth Sci. & Ind. Res. Organ. (CSIRO), Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

2010

fDate

1-4 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

738

Lastpage

742

Abstract

In fire fighting having prompt and reliable tracking and communication in case of emergency is of paramount importance. We developed an integrated positioning, sensing and communication platform for tracking first responders in urban fire fighting. A Quality of Service (QoS) enabled TDMA MAC (QT-MAC) was designed to provide a low latency and high reliability service for critical data transfer, as well as localization, sensing and communication services. QT-MAC implements a combination of priority queuing and weighted fair queuing. Experiments in a typical office building environment show that QT-MAC is able to deliver high priority emergency data with guaranteed low delay under heavy network traffic load.

Keywords

quality of service; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication traffic; time division multiple access; QoS; TDMA MAC; integrated communication; integrated positioning; integrated sensing; network traffic; priority queuing; quality of service; reliability; responders; tracking; urban fire fighting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Sensors, 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Kona, HI

ISSN

1930-0395

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8170-5

Electronic_ISBN

1930-0395

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSENS.2010.5690042

Filename

5690042