Title :
Enabling Communications in Emergency Scenarios
Author :
Gavrilovska, Liljana M. ; Atanasovski, Vladimir M.
Author_Institution :
Univ. "Ss Cyril & Methodius", Skopje
Abstract :
Emergency communications today attract enlarged interest, both in academia and industry, and are becoming a strategic issue in many developed communications concepts. This paper gives a comprehensive overview on the technical aspects and existing standards in the field and presents several ad-hoc and infrastructure based system solutions. In addition, the interoperability in emergency scenarios, through the capabilities of the new IEEE 802.21 standard, is elaborated.
Keywords :
ad hoc networks; IEEE 802.21 standard; ad-hoc based system solutions; emergency communications; emergency scenarios; infrastructure based system solutions; Appropriate technology; Communication industry; Databases; Earthquakes; Floods; Global warming; Humans; Information technology; Standardization; Terrorism; Ad-hoc and infrastructure emergency systems; Emergency communications; Interoperability;
Conference_Titel :
Telecommunications in Modern Satellite, Cable and Broadcasting Services, 2007. TELSIKS 2007. 8th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Serbia
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1467-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1468-0
DOI :
10.1109/TELSKS.2007.4375944
