Title: Extending emergency services coverage in cooperative IMS networks

Authors: Chi-Yuan Chen; Kai-Di Chang; Jiann-Liang Chen; Han-Chieh Chao

Addresses: Department of Electrical Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien 974, Taiwan. ' Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan. ' Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan. ' Department of Electrical Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien 974, Taiwan; Department of Electronic Engineering, Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Ilan University, I-Lan 260, Taiwan

Abstract: There are various emergency services based on the wireless sensor network technologies being proposed recently. However, the ability of these services/networks is inherently limited by geographical restrictions and need to be deployed in advance. This paper proposes an application level approach to enhance the service coverage and availability of emergency services. Specifically, we augment these services with All-IP network infrastructure based on IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). Furthermore, we integrate the IMS Emergency Services architecture with Cooperative Network technology to provide ubiquitous emergency services. We also investigate the prime problems of cooperation between heterogeneous networks and IMS. Finally, we present and discuss the experimental results of performance in our Cooperative Emergency IMS testbed.

Keywords: IP multimedia subsystems; cooperative networks; ubiquitous emergency services; internet protocol; wireless sensor networks; WSNs; wireless networks; network coverage; emergency management; communications.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAACS.2012.049480

International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems, 2012 Vol.5 No.4, pp.417 - 434

Published online: 05 Dec 2014 *

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