QoS Provisioning in Public Safety Radio and Commercial Cellular Integrated Networks for First Responders and Critical Infrastructures

Author

Yu, F. Richard ; Tang, Helen ; Leung, Victor C M

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. & Comput. Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Ont.

fYear

2007

fDate

11-13 April 2007

Firstpage

570

Lastpage

575

Abstract

The complementary characteristics of public safety radio networks and commercial cellular networks make it attractive to integrate these two wireless access technologies to provide first responders with a wide variety of advanced services (e.g., multimedia). In this integrated system, service availability is a critical quality of service (QoS) requirement. This paper formulates the QoS provisioning problem and proposes an algorithm for solving the problem. The QoS constraint can be guaranteed in the proposed scheme by reserving some bandwidth in cellular networks for first responders. Numerical examples illustrate that the proposed scheme can significantly improve the service availability QoS for first responders.

Keywords

cellular radio; quality of service; radio access networks; QoS provisioning; commercial cellular integrated networks; critical infrastructures; first responders; public safety radio networks; quality of service; wireless access technologies; Availability; Cellular networks; Engineering management; IP networks; Internet; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Multiaccess communication; Quality of service; Radio network; Safety;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference, 2007. IPCCC 2007. IEEE Internationa

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

ISSN

1097-2641

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1138-6

Electronic_ISBN

1097-2641

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCCC.2007.358942

Filename

4197978