IP-Based Emergency Applications and Services for Next Generation Networks

PEACE

Presented by

Suji Gunaratne PhD

Technical level Specify and develop a framework for enhancing IMS with

secure emergency services Provide a general solution for secure communications in

extreme emergency situations based on the IMS framework.

Integrate the PEACE framework with autonomic networking infrastructure in a secure and reliable manner in case of network collapse . In its normal mode of operation, PEACE nodes will be providing Peer-to-Peer (P2P) VoIP and video communications, as well as location-aware services such as communicating weather, driving and traffic conditions, real-time monitoring and road safety.

PEACE Objectives

Deployment/ business level Evaluate the implications on the current emergency models of the

PEACE concept, determine business plans for upgradeability / replacement and provide roadmaps for evolution.

Provide some answers to the growing demand for emergency services in Next Generation (All-IP) Network Solution

Use applications platform in order to handle and manage emergency service

Enhance the end-users clients to support this kind of vital services Support reliability (against failures and network break down ) and

security (against attacks and abuse)

Motivation and Drivers

Provide some answers to the need for emergency services in case of networks’ collapse Solution

Exploit the use of ad-hoc network to provide applications and services in emergency situations

Investigate how the end-users can support emergency services in this kind of networking paradigm

Support resilience and security by applying autonomic networking techniques

PEACE Framework

Consortium and Expertise (I)

The Consortium 2 companies, 1 operator, 2 universities, 2 research centres and 2 SMEs.

The Expertise Capacity to have a prospective vision of the most likely scenarios

for the evolution of emergency services and capacity to evaluate the impact of solutions proposed.

• One operator: Telefonica

Capacity to propose and evaluate solutions, for the technological issues recognized as key aspects for the development of emergency applications and ad-hoc networks.

• Strong research teams from laboratories and universities: Kingston University, University of Patras, IT and Fraunhofer Fokus

The Expertise (cont.) Capacity to filter and validate the technological proposals

based on their expected commercial value and make the translation to prototypes.

• Two large companies: Thales, Sun Microsystems

Specific expertise on dedicated topics.

• Two SMEs: PDMFC ( software tools, emulation engine) and Pale Blue (networking protocols and middleware)

Consortium & Expertise (II)

PEACE Consortium: Regional

Effort: 362 PMs Budget Total: 3,94 M€ EU Contribution: 2,65 M€

PEACE: Facts & Figures

Budget Distribution– Per category

• RTD related activities: 82.1 %• Management related activities: 4.2 %• Other (Dissemination and training): 13.7 %

– Per type of organization:• Companies: 25.9 %• SMEs: 24.8 %• Universities: 24.3 %• Research Centres: 24.9 %

Evaluation of the PEACE system

A2.1 State of the art

A2.5: Business Analysis

A4.1. Setup of test environment

A4.2: Integration and evaluation of the PEACE system

Project Management

A5.1: Dissemination and contribution to standardization

A5.2: Plan for using and disseminating of Knowledge

WP1

WP2 WP3 WP4

WP5

A2.2: Daily Emergency handling

A2.3 Handling of catastrophe situation

A2.4 High availability systems

A3.1 State of the Art and Implementation planning

A3.2 Development of emergency framework

A4.3: Trials and Demonstrations

A5.3: Roadmap for implementation of emergency management architecture

WB Structure & Dependencies

Objectives: Interface between the Project and the European Commission done by the

Project Coordinator (CO) whose role is to:. Provide the consortium with a complete management process (tools &

methodology) and project Secretariat (administrative, financial & contractual). The Coordinator together with the Technical Manager will be responsible for;

Providing technical quality control through the technical steering group.

Effort: 14PM (funded by the commission) + 10PM (offered by the coordinator)

Organization: Project Manager (PDM&FC) Technical Manager (University of Patras)

WP1 – Management

Objectives: Collect and analyse requirements for emergency systems from a

regulatory, operational and end-users‘ groups point of view Assess the work about emergency services that has already started in

ETSI, 3GPP and IETF and see how it can be useful Based on the results of the analysis phase, an appropriate framework

for providing emergency services based on IMS and P2P applications for daily and extreme emergency situations will be specified and developed

Special care will be dedicated to aspects of high availability of the system and its secure operation

Effort: 99 PMs

Partners involved: All, WP Leader: FhG FOKUS

WP2 – Emergency Architecture Requirements and Specification

Objectives: Specify the interfaces between the different components of the PEACE

architecture. Implementation of protocols extensions and components for daily

emergency services (enhancement of IMS components, resilience and security components,)

Implementation of protocols extensions and components for extreme emergency services (wireless ad-hoc networking, P2P, applications, security and reliability)

Effort: 114PM

Partners: All, WP Leader: Telefónica I+D

WP3 – Emergency System Implementation and Prototyping

Test scenarios

Daily emergency:

• Controlled internal scenario: Telefonica I+D lab trial using IMS testbed

• Campus-wide scenario: University campus

• Real-world scenario with Police/Fire Dept as first responders

Extreme emergency:

• Real-world scenario with Police/Fire Dept as users

WP4 – Integration, Evaluation and Trials

WP4 (cont.)

Integration and Evaluation of the PEACE System

Performance, Availability, Scalability, End-Users’ Usability

Effort: 74PM

Partners: All, WP Leader: UPatras

Contribution to standardisation ETSI IETF (ECRIT, Autoconf) 3GPP

Fora PSC Europe Regulatory Bodies

Dissemination Activities Diffusion of the results within the FP7

Effort: 48PMs

Partners: All, WP Leader: IT

WP5 – Dissemination and Demonstration

Design and Specification of IP-based Daily Emergency Systems: To investigate challenges regarding ad-hoc mobile nodes in P2P and

IMS-based emergency infrastructures• QoS management• Secure and reliable ad-hoc communications • To investigate different localization techniques and approaches and

their usability in the context of emergency services in terms of administrative overhead, accuracy and complexity.

Implement and integrate ad-hoc module extension to proposed emergency architecture and follow-up with trials at IT test site

Management Responsibilities: Dissemination and Demonstrations WP Leader (WP5) IT involved in ICT WHERE that address positioning techniques for ad-hoc

mobile networks.

Role of IT in PEACE

Project Coordinator: Luis Miguel Campos - PDMFC, Lisbon.

IT Coordinator: Jonathan Rodriguez; jonathan@av.it.pt

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