EAGER: US IGNITE: An Application-Aware, Cross-Layer Design for Audio-Visual Applications in Medical Ambulances

该项目将设计和试验一种名为WiMed的新服务，在移动救护车和目的地医院之间提供高质量、可靠的数据通信。WiMed将少量大流量映射到多个无线网络。WiMed是应用感知的，当连接特性因救护车位置而改变时，它能够跨层和跨应用优化。通信能力将实现救护车和接收急诊室之间的高质量视听链接和实时患者数据传输，使医生能够及早评估患者病情，从而减少治疗延误。它还将使向救护车司机提供实时交通视频的试验成为可能，以支持救护车的导航指导。该项目将使用的无线网络包括威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的GENI WiMax网络、可用的WiFi网络和各种公共3G/4G网络。WiMed系统将在密尔沃基县紧急医疗服务部门下属的西艾利斯消防局（West Allis Fire Department）运营的救护车上试用。该项目将使医疗救护车能够在救护车和急诊室医生之间建立高质量、牢固的音视频和数据联系，从而更快地治疗需要急诊服务的病人。参与该项目的所有学生将获得应用于社会重要应用的无线系统的重要实践、实验和部署经验。

This project will design and trial a new service called WiMed that provides high-quality, robust data communications between moving ambulances and the destination hospital. WiMed maps a small number of large flows to multiple wireless networks. WiMed is application aware and able to cross-layer and cross-application optimization when connectivity characteristics change due to ambulance location. The communications capability will enable high-quality audio-visual links and real-time patient data transfers between the ambulance and the receiving emergency room enabling an early assessment of a patient condition by a doctor and thereby reducing treatment delay. It will also enable trialing of feeding real-time traffic video feeds to the ambulance driver in support of navigation guidance for ambulances. Wireless networks that will be used in the project include the UW-Madison GENI WiMax network, available WiFi networks, and various public 3G/4G networks. The WiMed system will be trialed on ambulances operated by the West Allis Fire Department, part of the Milwaukee County Emergency Medical Services.The project will enable medical ambulances to establish high-quality, robust audio-video and data links between the ambulance and emergency room doctors thus leading to faster treatment for patients needing emergency services. All students involved in the project will acquire significant hand-on implementation, experimentation and deployment experience in wireless systems applied to socially important applications.