IP-Based Emergency Applications and Services for
Next Generation Networks
PEACE
Presented by
Suji Gunaratne PhD
PEACE Objectives
 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.
 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.
Motivation and Drivers
 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)
 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
Consortium & Expertise (II)
 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)
PEACE Consortium: Regional
PEACE: Facts & Figures
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Effort:
Budget Total:
EU Contribution:
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Budget Distribution
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362 PMs
3,94 M€
2,65 M€
– Per category
• RTD related activities:
• Management related activities:
• Other (Dissemination and training):
82.1 %
4.2 %
13.7 %
– Per type of organization:
•
•
•
•
Companies:
SMEs:
Universities:
Research Centres:
25.9 %
24.8 %
24.3 %
24.9 %
WB Structure & Dependencies
Evaluation of the PEACE system
Project Management
WP1
WP2
WP3
A2.2: Daily Emergency
handling
A2.1
State
of the
art
A2.3 Handling of
catastrophe situation
A2.4 High availability
systems
WP4
A4.1. Setup of test
environment
A3.1 State of the Art
and Implementation
planning
A3.2 Development of
emergency framework
A4.2: Integration and
evaluation of the PEACE
system
A2.5: Business Analysis
A4.3: Trials and
Demonstrations
A5.1: Dissemination and contribution
to standardization
A5.2: Plan for using and disseminating
of Knowledge
A5.3: Roadmap for
implementation of emergency
management architecture
WP5
WP1 – Management
 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)
WP2 – Emergency Architecture Requirements
and Specification
 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
WP3 – Emergency System Implementation
and Prototyping
 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
WP4 – Integration, Evaluation and Trials
 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 (cont.)
 Integration and Evaluation of the PEACE System
 Performance, Availability, Scalability, End-Users’ Usability
 Effort: 74PM
 Partners: All, WP Leader: UPatras
WP5 – Dissemination and Demonstration
 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
Role of IT in PEACE
 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.
Project Coordinator: Luis Miguel Campos - PDMFC, Lisbon.
IT Coordinator: Jonathan Rodriguez; jonathan@av.it.pt
Thank you