Public Safety Communication (PSC) is currently receiving increasing attention of research community world wide. The performance and resilience of PSC systems directly impacts the level of coordination and efficiency of public safety agencies. The efficient communication is probably among the most important parts of emergency response and could affect the number of human lives saved in many parts of the world.
The PSC Europe Forum is promoting research interest and needs of public safety commmuniction.
Workshop Motivation
- PCS communication today is mainly based on several different analog (VHF) and first generation digital radio access technologies (TETRA, TERAPOL, P25). The technological diversity creates an interoperability problem at different levels that reduces the efficiency of emergency operations; it increases the market fragmentation and equipment costs. It is important in the early research stages to consider the development of interoperable and harmonized technologies.
- There are cases when pubic safety agencies are using existing public communication networks and there is an obvious need of research towards the use and optimization of existing technologies that will take into account private public safety user requirements.
- The next logical foreseen step in the evolution of public safety communication systems is the System of the System concept or Heterogeneous network architecture that includes a number of different networks and optimized to handle emergency or crisis situations. The idea of system of system approach for public safety had been widely presented and is in the focus of standardization activities such as MESA project and could be a part of NGN-GSI project activities at ITU. Despite the high interest in the topic, obvious relevance and importance of the concepts for public safety, it remains still in a very generic stage due to its complexity, competing techno-political interests around its elements, and number of unresolved research issues. The research areas that require input from research are: heterogeneous network integration, protocols, network optimisation and management.
- A number of international research projects and standardization activities focused on PSC have been established in different countries. The dialog and the exchange of information between those projects could provide new interesting ideas and optimize the international research efforts.
Workshop objectives
The objectives of the workshop are to invite research contributions in the key areas of importance for PSC and to establish and to facilitate a dialog and exchange of ideas.
Workshop registration
Important Dates:
Paper Submission Deadline:
01 November 2008
Acceptance Notification:
01 February 2009
Camera Ready Version Due:
01 March 2009
Workshop Date:
18 June 2009
