CWT and SAIC NSF Digital Government
Project: Testbed for High-Speed "End-to-End" Communications
in Support of Comprehensive Emergency Management
Project Summary
This project investigates a rapidly deployable "last
mile" wireless high-speed communications system to support
emergency management. The system will utilize surviving network
infrastructure to provide network connectivity to emergency
management field workers for applications such as Geographic
Information System (GIS) access and audio/video conferencing.
Virginia Tech, in conjunction with partner SAIC, is designing the
system architecture, developing and/or integrating radio, link,
network, and application-level hardware and software, and
exploring GIS applications. The system is being demonstrated
through construction and test deployment of a base station and two
field units. An important element of the work is rapid deployment,
so equipment must be portable, easily configured, and able to
access remote databases and GIS engines. Innovative features to
support rapid deployment and robust operation, including a
built-in channel sounder, adaptive link layer protocols, and use
of GIS for viewshed analysis, are investigated.
Sponsors
- This project is funded by the National
Science Foundation under award
number 9983463.
- Additional support has been provided by the National
Response Center (U.S. Coast Guard), Motorola, Inc., and
Lockheed-Martin Global Telecommunications.
Contacts
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Presentations
- Project Overview, August 5, 2001 (PDF
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- Scott Midkiff, Charles Bostian, Bill Carstensen, and Mike Kurgan, "Rapidly Deployable Broadband Wireless for Emergency Response," Virginia Institute for Defense and Homeland Security Summit, June 25,2003, Washington, DC. (PDF 326K)
Papers and Reports
- S. F. Midkiff and C. W. Bostian, "Rapidly-Deployable
Broadband Wireless Networks for Disaster and Emergency
Response," First IEEE Workshop on Disaster Recover
Networks (DIREN '02), June 24, 2002, New York, NY (PDF
639K)
- C. W. Bostian and S. F. Midkiff, "Demonstrating Rapidly
Deployable Broadband Wireless Communications for Emergency
Management," presented at the National Digital Government
Research Conference (dg.o 2002), May 20-22, 2002, Redondo
Beach, CA (PDF
226K)
- S. F. Midkiff and C. W. Bostian, "Rapidly Deployable
Broadband Wireless Communications for Emergency
Management", presented at the National Digital Government
Research Conference (dg.o 2001), May 21-23, 2001, Redondo
Beach, CA (PDF
313K)
