An architectural proposal for future wireless emergency response networks with broadband services

Abstract

organizations. In addition, future emergency response networks are also expected to support the day-to-day needs of the local and regional authorities and to provide dynamic access to municipal and civic services. It is expected that the government's need for such substantial network support and the corresponding spectrum will occur relatively infrequently. In general, there is a continuum of emergency needs between day-to-day operations and catastrophic events. While these catastrophic events happen very infrequently OverviewLocal and federal governments are increasingly aware of the importance of mobile emergency response systems that can be deployed very rapidly in crisis situations. From a communication perspective, one of the main goals of such systems is the rapid and reliable establishment of high-speed communication links supporting broadband applications, such as streaming video or access to databases, between the rescue crews and their headquarters, political institutions, military and police forces, and international

Ubiquitous robust communications for emergency response using multi-operator heterogeneous networks

“…At the same time, they have to setup communications for various tasks such as, data transmission to the corresponding headquarter, medical data fetching from hospitals' databases regarding the medical history of the injured persons, etc. In addition, cooperation through communication channels between the rescue teams located in nearby locations may be necessary for the efficient coordination of the emergency operation; thus, the communication system used, is expected to efficiently integrate a plethora of applications with different requirements and performance objectives [6]. Applications and functionalities a future emergency response communication architecture should support, are described in the next sections.…”