A Prioritised Traffic Embedding Mechanism Enabling a Public Safety Virtual Operator

J. van de Belt; H. Ahmadi; L. E. Doyle; O. Sallent

doi:10.1109/VTCFall.2015.7390810

A Prioritised Traffic Embedding Mechanism Enabling a Public Safety Virtual Operator

J. van de Belt, H. Ahmadi, L. E. Doyle, O. Sallent

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Abstract

Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR) services can benefit greatly from the availability of mobile broadband communications in disaster and emergency scenarios. While undoubtedly offering full control and reliability, dedicated networks for PPDR have resulted in high operating costs and a lack of innovation in comparison to the commercial domain. Driven by the many benefits of broadband communications, PPDR operators are increasingly interested in adopting mainstream commercial technologies such as Long Term Evolution (LTE) in favour of expensive, dedicated narrow-band networks. In addition, the emergence of virtualization for wireless networks offers a new model for sharing infrastructure between several operators in a flexible and customizable manner. In this context, we propose a virtual Public Safety (PS) operator that relies on shared infrastructure of commercial PPDR networks to deliver services to its users. We compare several methods of allocating spectrum resources between virtual operators at peak times and examine how this influences differing traffic services. We show that it is possible to provide services to the PS users reliably during both normal and emergency operation, and examine the impact on the commercial operators.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2015 IEEE 82nd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2015-Fall)
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/VTCFall.2015.7390810
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2015

Keywords

emergency management
Long Term Evolution
resource allocation
virtualisation
traffic services
spectrum resource allocation
shared infrastructure
virtual public safety operator
wireless networks
narrow-band networks
LTE
PPDR operators
operating costs
emergency scenario
disaster scenario
mobile broadband communications
Public Protection and Disaster Relief services
public safety virtual operator
prioritised traffic embedding mechanism
Mobile communication
Broadband communication
Heuristic algorithms
Virtual machine monitors
Mobile computing
Virtualization
Substrates

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