Collaborative Research: CRI: IAD: A Testbed for Research and Development of Next Generation 9-1-1 Services

合作研究：CRI：IAD：下一代 9-1-1 服务研究和开发的测试平台

• 批准号: 0751094
• 负责人: Henning Schulzrinne
• 金额: $ 38.5万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0751094&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; CRI; IAD; Testbed

Traditional 9-1-1 systems, which date back to 1970s, support only voice, while non-emergency communications now feature other media. Adding additional media for 9-1-1 presents opportunities and challenges. Text messages, images captured by cell phones, video clips, and automatic crash notification messages can dramatically enhance the 9-1-1 services by expediting emergency responses and reducing crash clearance times. The rapid increase of residential, nomadic and mobile VoIP usage requires the development of VoIP-based next generation 9-1-1 systems and services that will replace the current circuit-switched 9-1-1 systems. Beyond limitations in media and mobility support, existing systems are inefficient and cannot easily accommodate new functionality. This project is a collaboration among University of North Texas, Columbia University and Texas A&M University, where UNT will be the lead institution, to develop a testbed that will enable research on understanding and analysis of next generation 9-1-1 services. The testbed make possible research and development in reliability, security, function-appropriate privacy and other areas that already difficult in large scale VoIP, but which become daunting when the VoIP system is critical infrastructure. The broader impacts of this project are many. A testbed for Internet-based 9-1-1 research is particularly important as both state and federal governments are in the process of planning next-generation emergency communication platforms, unfortunately often without adequate vendor-neutral testing and evaluation. Users of the testbed will investigate issues related to locating9-1-1 callers, securing Public Safety Answering Points, ensuring continuous availability of 9-1-1 services during large-scale emergencies, predicting emergencies, providing citizen alerts ("reverse 9-1-1"), and improving inter-agency coordination. The PIs expect to translate results from research on this infrastructure to engineering guidelines and disseminate results across government organizations, standards bodies such as IETF and National Emergency Number Association (NENA) and 9-1-1 centers. Moreover, the findings from the experiments in this project will be useful for the residents across USA.

可以追溯到1970年代的传统9-1-1系统仅支持语音，而非紧急通信现在具有其他媒体。为9-1-1添加其他媒体带来了机会和挑战。短信，手机捕获的图像，视频剪辑和自动崩溃通知消息可以通过加快紧急响应加快并减少崩溃时间的时间来大大增强9-1-1服务。住宅，游牧和移动VOIP使用的迅速增加需要开发基于VoIP的下一代9-1-1系统和服务，以取代当前的电路开关9-1-1系统。除了媒体和移动性支持的局限性之外，现有系统效率低下，无法轻易适应新的功能。 该项目是北德克萨斯大学，哥伦比亚大学和德克萨斯A＆M大学的合作，在那里UNT将成为主要机构，以开发一个测试床，以便对下一代9-1-1服务的理解和分析进行研究。 测试床使可靠性，安全性，适合功能的隐私和其他在大规模VoIP中已经很困难的领域进行了可能的研究和开发，但是当VoIP系统是关键的基础架构时，这些领域变得令人生畏。该项目的更广泛影响很多。 基于Internet的9-1-1研究的测试床特别重要，因为州和联邦政府都在计划下一代紧急通信平台的过程中，不幸的是，通常没有足够的供应商中性测试和评估。 测试床的用户将调查与定位9-1呼叫者有关的问题，确保公共安全的答复点，确保在大规模紧急情况下连续获得9-1-1服务，预测紧急情况，提供公民警报（“反向9-1-1”）以及改善机构间协调。 PI希望将有关此基础设施的研究转化为工程指南，并在政府组织，IETF和国家紧急情况协会（NENA）和9-1-1中心等标准机构之间传播结果。此外，该项目中实验的发现对美国各地的居民都有用。