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Enhancing rescue operations with virtualized mobile multimedia services in scarce resource devices

Publication date: November 30, 2020

Authors: Atutxa, Asier Astorga, Jasone Huarte, Maider Jacob, Eduardo Unzilla, Juanjo
Type:Journal article
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Reference: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3041394
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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.