Enhancing interoperability in heterogeneous mobile wireless networks for disaster response

F. Richard Yu; Jie Zhang; Helen Tang; Chun Bun Henry Chan; Victor C.M. Leung

doi:10.1109/TWC.2009.071158

Enhancing interoperability in heterogeneous mobile wireless networks for disaster response

F. Richard Yu, Jie Zhang, Helen Tang, Chun Bun Henry Chan, Victor C.M. Leung

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Abstract

Efficient communications are crucial for disaster response and recovery. However, most current public safety land mobile radio (LMR) networks only provide narrowband voice service with limited support of low-speed data services. In this paper, we study to enhance the interoperability of LMR with commercial wireless cellular networks, by which a wide variety of benefits can be offered to disaster responders, including new multimedia services, increased data rates and low cost devices. Our approach is based on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and a joint radio resource management framework. We use a novel SIPbased seamless handoff scheme to support the interoperability between cellular and LMR networks. In addition, an optimal radio resource management scheme is proposed to maximize the overall radio resource utilization and at the same time guarantee service availability and continuity quality of service (QoS) for disaster responders. The effectiveness of the proposed schemes is illustrated by numerical examples.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2424-2433
Number of pages	10
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Volume	8
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2009.071158
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2009

Keywords

Interoperability
Public safety land mobile radio
Wireless cellular networks

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Science Applications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Applied Mathematics

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