Enhancing Rescue Operations With Virtualized Mobile Multimedia Services in Scarce Resource Devices
The aim of this article is to present an architecture to support reconfigurable multimedia services for a practical emergency environment use case of rescue operations. Specifically, radio communication and video surveillance services are provided by means of a small device carried by a mobile vehic...
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| description | The aim of this article is to present an architecture to support reconfigurable multimedia services for a practical emergency environment use case of rescue operations. Specifically, radio communication and video surveillance services are provided by means of a small device carried by a mobile vehicle. This solution is validated by implementing a digital mobile radio (DMR) standard radio hotspot and a video streaming server in an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that conveys a device with scarce resources in order to minimize power consumption. To achieve a fast and flexible deployment of the envisioned services, a virtualization-based approach is proposed. Namely, a Kubernetes orchestrator is used to manage the life-cycle of services deployed on a small resource device, endowing the architecture with scalability and management flexibility. This article describes the executed performance tests that measured key parameters such as deployment time and recovery time after disconnection. Highly promising results were obtained, showing that the proposed architecture can be deployed in less than 4 minutes and can recover from network disconnections in less than 10 seconds. Thus, the performance, reliability and flexibility of the overall solution are demonstrated. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-666fff479a8d40ebb506e89d3c4512082022-12-21T18:13:57ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362020-01-01821602921604210.1109/ACCESS.2020.30413949272962Enhancing Rescue Operations With Virtualized Mobile Multimedia Services in Scarce Resource DevicesAsier Atutxa0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2041-8423Jasone Astorga1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5532-004XMaider Huarte2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7311-1375Eduardo Jacob3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7093-0586Juanjo Unzilla4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1766-7958Department of Communications Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, SpainDepartment of Communications Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, SpainDepartment of Communications Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, SpainDepartment of Communications Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, SpainDepartment of Communications Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, SpainThe aim of this article is to present an architecture to support reconfigurable multimedia services for a practical emergency environment use case of rescue operations. Specifically, radio communication and video surveillance services are provided by means of a small device carried by a mobile vehicle. This solution is validated by implementing a digital mobile radio (DMR) standard radio hotspot and a video streaming server in an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that conveys a device with scarce resources in order to minimize power consumption. To achieve a fast and flexible deployment of the envisioned services, a virtualization-based approach is proposed. Namely, a Kubernetes orchestrator is used to manage the life-cycle of services deployed on a small resource device, endowing the architecture with scalability and management flexibility. This article describes the executed performance tests that measured key parameters such as deployment time and recovery time after disconnection. Highly promising results were obtained, showing that the proposed architecture can be deployed in less than 4 minutes and can recover from network disconnections in less than 10 seconds. Thus, the performance, reliability and flexibility of the overall solution are demonstrated.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9272962/Application virtualizationemergency servicesmultimedia communicationradio communication |
| spellingShingle | Asier Atutxa Jasone Astorga Maider Huarte Eduardo Jacob Juanjo Unzilla Enhancing Rescue Operations With Virtualized Mobile Multimedia Services in Scarce Resource Devices IEEE Access Application virtualization emergency services multimedia communication radio communication |
| title | Enhancing Rescue Operations With Virtualized Mobile Multimedia Services in Scarce Resource Devices |
| title_full | Enhancing Rescue Operations With Virtualized Mobile Multimedia Services in Scarce Resource Devices |
| title_fullStr | Enhancing Rescue Operations With Virtualized Mobile Multimedia Services in Scarce Resource Devices |
| title_full_unstemmed | Enhancing Rescue Operations With Virtualized Mobile Multimedia Services in Scarce Resource Devices |
| title_short | Enhancing Rescue Operations With Virtualized Mobile Multimedia Services in Scarce Resource Devices |
| title_sort | enhancing rescue operations with virtualized mobile multimedia services in scarce resource devices |
| topic | Application virtualization emergency services multimedia communication radio communication |
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