1st International ICST Workshop on Satellite/Terrestrial Interworking

Research Article

Integrating Satellite and Terrestrial Technologies for Emergency Communications: the WISECOM Project

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1145/1577776.1577778,
        author={Matteo Berioli and Nicolas Courville and Markus Werner},
        title={Integrating Satellite and Terrestrial Technologies for Emergency Communications: the WISECOM Project},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Workshop on Satellite/Terrestrial Interworking},
        publisher={ACM},
        proceedings_a={IWSTI},
        year={2007},
        month={8},
        keywords={Emergency communications satellite backhauling GSM UMTS TETRA Inmarsat BGAN DVB-RCS.},
        doi={10.1145/1577776.1577778}
    }
    
  • Matteo Berioli
    Nicolas Courville
    Markus Werner
    Year: 2007
    Integrating Satellite and Terrestrial Technologies for Emergency Communications: the WISECOM Project
    IWSTI
    ACM
    DOI: 10.1145/1577776.1577778
Matteo Berioli1,*, Nicolas Courville2,*, Markus Werner3,*
  • 1: German Aerospace Center (DLR) Oberpfaffenhofen D-82234 Wessling (Germany) Tel.: +49-8153-28 {2863}
  • 2: German Aerospace Center (DLR) Oberpfaffenhofen D-82234 Wessling (Germany) Tel.: +49-8153-28 {1120}
  • 3: TriaGnoSys Argelsrieder Feld 22 82234 Wessling Tel.: +49-8153-886787
*Contact email: Matteo.Berioli@dlr.de, Nicolas.Courville@dlr.de, Markus.Werner@triagnosys.com

Abstract

In this paper, the main concepts of the Wireless Infrastructure over Satellite for Emergency COMmunications project (WISECOM) are presented. These concepts rely upon the idea of a light and rapidly deployable system that can be autonomously used in remote areas where telecommunication networks have broken down to provide access to emergency telecommunication services using a large set of wide-spread telecommunication technologies such as GSM, UMTS, WiFi, WiMAX, and TETRA and a satellite back-hauling link. In the paper, a detailed description of the whole WISECOM system is provided, with emphasis on the WISECOM Access Terminal, the unit deployed on the disaster area and interfacing the selected satellite system to different wireless local access technologies. Then, three relevant and realistic examples of configuration of the WISECOM system (GSM, UMTS and TETRA over satellite) are detailed.