Internet Protocol-based Emergency Services

Written by international experts in the field, this book covers the standards, architecture and deployment issues related to IP-based emergency services

This book brings together contributions from experts on technical and operational aspects within the international standardisation and regulatory processes relating to routing and handling of IP-based emergency calls.  Readers will learn how these standards work, how various standardization organizations contributed to them and about pilot projects, early deployment and current regulatory situation. Key Features:

Provides an overview of how the standards related to IP-based emergency services work, and how various organizations contributed to them
Focuses on SIP and IMS-based communication systems for the Internet
Covers standards, architecture and deployment issues
International focus, with coverage of the major national efforts in this area
Written by the experts who were/are involved in the development of the standards (NENA, EENA, 3GPP, IETF, ETSI, etc.)
Accompanying website provides updates on standards and deployment (http://ip-emergency.net)

This book is an excellent resource for vendors building software and equipment for emergency services, engineers/researchers engaged in development of networks and network elements and standardization, emergency services providers, standardization experts, product persons, those within the regulatory environment. Students and lecturers, infrastructure and application service providers will also find this book of interest.

Author Biography

Professor Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA Henning Schulzrinne has worked on Internet-based emergencycalling since 2001, and has helped design the overall emergencycalling architecture, the service URN mechanism and the PSAPmapping protocol (LoST). Prior to that, he was a long-termparticipant in the IETF VoIP-related standardization process,starting with RTP and continuing with VoIP signaling (SIP). Henningcurrently teaches networking and related subjects at ColumbiaUniversity. He has published numerous journal and conferencearticles, as well as two books. Henning is a Fellow of theIEEE. Hannes Tschofenig, Nokia Siemens Networks, Finland Hannes Tschofenig has worked on the topic of emergency services forthe past 5 years in the area of standardization. He is Chair of theIETF Emergency Context Resolution with Internet Technology (ECRIT)working group with Marc Linsner, and Chair of the EuropeanEmergency Number Association (EENA) Next Generation 112 TechnicalCommittee with Roger Hixson (NENA management person). Hannesand Henning have organized the SDO emergency services workshopswith a small group of people, where they have contributed to anumber of specifications in this field. Tschofenig has taughtcourses, and given presentations and tutorials about emergencyservices to other professionals.