Preferential Emergency Communications: From Telecommunications to the Internet

Author: Ken Carlberg
Published: January 2004
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
ISBN: 1402075227
Hardcover Book
Number of Pages: 200

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For network designers, vendors, and users of authorized communication services, engineers Carlberg, Robert Desourdis Jr., and James Polk, all with US companies; and Ian Brown (U. College London) discuss authorized emergency communications. They describe systems and protocols deployed as private networks for government agencies such as the US Department of Defense, land mobile radio commonly used by local emergency agencies such as police and fire departments, systems that have been deployed over the public switched telephone network, and emergency communications over TCP/IP networks for the Internet.

Table of Contents:

1 Introduction 1
2 Protocol Architectures: SS7 and TCP/IP 6
3 Multi-Level Precedence and Preemption (MLPP) 21
4 The AUTODIN Network 39
5 Mobile and HF Radio Systems 50
6 Commercial Wireless Systems 87
7 Preferential Service in the PSTN 97
8 IP Requirements 113
9 Supporting Emergency Communications in IP Network 127
10 Security for Supporting IP Emergency Communications 157
Terminology 177
Index 186

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