VoIP Emergency Calling Foundations and Practice

by Wolf, Karl Heinz; Barnes, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780470665947
• ISBN10: 0470665947
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-12-13
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

VoIP Emergency Calling: Foundations and Practice provides a treatment of the VoIP emergency calling process that is both comprehensive, looking at all aspects of emergency calling, and practical, providing technical details on how emergency calling functions can be implemented. In addition, the authors describe the standardization activities of the Internet Engineering Task Force working to improve the situation for VoIP emergency calls.Topics include: emergency calling overview, regulatory considerations, the Internet emergency calling architecture, the role of location information, distribution of implementation tasks, VoIP emergency calling in practice, security considerations, open issues for VoIP emergency calling, ongoing research, summary and future directions.

Author Biography

Dr. Karl Heinz Wolf, NIC.AT, Austria
Karl Heinz Wolf studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Technical University of Vienna. Since his thesis work, he has focused on VoIP-related technologies, and now works for NIC.AT, which he joined in June 2007. In addition, Karl has contributed to a number of projects related to VoIP-based emergency calls. Furthermore, he has developed several prototypes of emergency calling technologies and is active in emergency-relevant working groups in the IETF.

Richard Barnes, BBN Technologies, USA
Richard Barnes is a leader in standards related to security and real-time applications on the Internet. He currently chairs the IETF GEOPRIV working group, and serves on the program committee for the Emergency Services Workshop. In addition, as a scientist at BBN Technologies, he leads efforts to prototype geolocation and emergency services technologies.

Table of Contents

Foreword

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Calling over the Internet

VoIP emergency calling problem statement

Emergency Communication

Overview of this book

References

Emergency Calling

Overview

Infrastructure requirements

The role of location information

References

The ECRIT emergency calling architecture

Overview

Location information

Service URNs

Determining the appropriate PSAP - the LoST protocol

The Emergency Call Itself

Home Dial String Configuration via LoST

Deployment models

Considerations for proxies

Standardization

Summary

References

Including location information

Location configuration

Positioning using GPS

Network-based positioning

Location Hiding

Default Location

References

Implementation and Regulatory considerations

Distribution of implementation tasks

Austria

United States

European Union

Japan

Summary

References

VoIP emergency calling in practice

Software

Practice Exercises

References

Security

ECRIT security

Location security

PSAP and VoIP network security

References

Ongoing emergency calling work

Prototyping, Implementation, and Interoperability

Ongoing Standardization Issues

Ongoing Implementation issues

References

Summary and the outlook for the future

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