Communication and service platform for public safety personnel

Author

Schmidt, J.R.

Author_Institution

TNO Telecom, Delft, Netherlands

fYear

2004

fDate

31 May-3 June 2004

Firstpage

291

Lastpage

294

Abstract

This paper describes a communication and service platform for public safety personnel. The platform demonstrates just in time provisioning of data and scalable communication services and operates in a heterogeneous network environment with high survivability. As an example use case the design is aimed at the ad-hoc facilitation of the communication between and co-ordination of firefighters in disaster areas. The principle network mechanism between the network nodes is multi-hop ad hoc routing with a gateway function to cellular networks. Jini is selected as the middleware technology to enable the service provisioning, service access and network handovers. The service applications are derived from interviews and discussions with firefighters.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; cellular radio; middleware; safety; telecommunication computing; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication services; Jini; ad-hoc facilitation; cellular networks; firefighters; gateway function; heterogeneous network environment; middleware technology; multihop ad hoc routing; network handovers; public safety personnel; service access; service platform; service provisioning; 3G mobile communication; Fires; Ground penetrating radar; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Large-scale systems; Mobile communication; Peer to peer computing; Personnel; Safety; Telecommunication standards;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks, 2004 International Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8275-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWWAN.2004.1525588

Filename

1525588