Improved IP Network for Emergency Service

Fiaz Gul Khan II] Aamir Saeed [2], Babar Nazir II] Kashif Bilal I'] Nouhman Ayub [2]
'l1Department of computer science Comsats Institute of Information Technology
Abbottabad, Pakistan
/21Department of computer engineering Comsats Institute of Information Technology
Abbottabad, Pakistan

fiazjadunggmail.com, aamirsaedggmail.com, {babarzazir, kashifbila, nomi}@ciit.net.pk

ABSTRACT: These capabilities include: conventional telephone, cellular

Internet is one of the most extensively used
communications medium in the world, which makes the
whole world a global village. The Internet is growing at an
annualized rate of 18% and now has one billion users.
Second billion users will follow in the next ten years.
Unfortunately there is very little work done in order to
use the IP Network in the field of Emergency Services.
These services are mostly based on PSTN (Public Switched
Telephone Network). In this paper we enhance the
previous work that has been done in this regard and tried
to improved the performance by bringing some changes in
its architecture, which ensures the LI (location
Information) stipulation which is a the most challenging
aspect using IP flat address model. We have used the
concept of DHCP Relay (Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol) in order to ensure the LI from the caller side.
Along with this, our technique also simplifies the
architecture of the system.
Keywords:
Location Information, DHCP relays, IP Network, Emergency
Services
1. INTRODUCTION:
phones, and Internet access via on line terminals, IP
telephones, and wireless Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs).
The commercial telecommunications infrastructure is rapidly
evolving to Internet-based technology. Therefore, the Internet
community needs to consider how it can best support
emergency management and recovery operations [3].
When we move towards IP based Emergency Service there
comes a problem that is of End's User Location Information
(LI). As for Emergency services we require the address of the
person who calls for the help in order to facilitate him/her. But
unfortunately there is no mechanism by which we can get the
exact location of the person who is using any IP device in
LAN/WAN environment.
We presents a new way that how to get the user's location
information using DHCP message passing. We used the
concept of DHCP relays in order to get the Location
information of the end user and ensure it. This work is the
improvement in the work already done in this regard that is
"IP Network for Emergency Services" [2]. Our new
architecture of the system is more cost effective and is simple
than the earlier. Secondly we ensured the Location
information from the caller side which was not in earlier
work.

The Internet is growing at an annualized rate of 18% and 2. RELATED WORK:

now has one billion users. Second billion users will follow in
the next ten years, bringing a dramatic change in worldwide
usability needs [1]. Unfortunately in emergency services there
is still very little use of IP network [2], Effective
telecommunications capabilities can be imperative to facilitate
immediate recovery operations for serious disaster events,
such as, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and terrorist attacks.
Disasters can happen unexpectedly, at any time or place.
Quick response for recovery operations requires immediate
access to any public telecommunications capabilities at hand.
We took the work of K.K.A. Zahid that is "IP Network for
Emergency Services" who proposed his architecture for IP
network used in Emergency services. Their work does not
ensures the Location information from the caller side, their
work is probabilistic rather than deterministic, as in
emergency services we can not work on probabilities, we had
to be sure about our target.
Their work uses two ways to get the caller's location

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