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Enhancing Rescue Operations With Virtualized Mobile Multimedia Services in Scarce Resource Devices

Enhancing Rescue Operations With Virtualized Mobile Multimedia Services in Scarce Resource Devices

Authors :
Asier Atutxa
Jasone Astorga
Maider Huarte
Eduardo Jacob
Juanjo Unzilla
Source :
IEEE Access, Vol 8, Pp 216029-216042 (2020)
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
IEEE, 2020.

Abstract

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.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
21693536
Volume :
8
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
IEEE Access
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.666fff479a8d40ebb506e89d3c451208
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3041394