Paper Info
Title
High Altitude Platforms for Disaster Recovery: Capabilities, Strategies, and Techniques for Emergency Telecommunications
Abstract
Natural disasters and terrorist acts have significant potential to disrupt emergency communication systems. These emergency communication networks include first-responder, cellular, landline, and emergency answering services such as 911, 112, or 999. Without these essential emergency communications capabilities, search, rescue, and recovery operations during a catastrophic event will be severely debilitated. High altitude platforms could be fitted with telecommunications equipment and used to support these critical communications missions once the catastrophic event occurs. With the ability to be continuously on station, HAPs provide excellent options for providing emergency coverage over high-risk areas before catastrophic incidents occur. HAPs could also provide enhanced 911 capabilities using either GPS or reference stations. This paper proposes potential emergency communications architecture and presents a method for estimating emergency communications systems traffic patterns for a catastrophic event.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1155/2008/153469
EURASIP J. Wireless Comm. and Networking
Keywords
Field
DocType
natural disaster,disaster recovery,communication system
Base station,Telecommunications network,Telecommunications,Computer science,Computer security,Telecommunications equipment,Computer network,Communications system,Natural disaster,Global Positioning System,Landline,Disaster recovery
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2008
1
1687-1499
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
2.04
2
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Juan D. Deaton1153.62