VoIP Emergency Calling Foundations and

VoIP Emergency Calling: Foundations and Practice provides a treatment of the VoIP emergency calling process that is both comprehensive, looking at all aspects of emergency calling, and practical, providing technical details on how emergency calling functions can be implemented. In addition, the authors describe the standardization activities of the Internet Engineering Task Force working to improve the situation for VoIP emergency calls.Topics include: emergency calling overview, regulatory considerations, the Internet emergency calling architecture, the role of location information, distribution of implementation tasks, VoIP emergency calling in practice, security considerations, open issues for VoIP emergency calling, ongoing research, summary and future directions.

Dr. Karl Heinz Wolf, NIC.AT, Austria
Karl Heinz Wolf studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Technical University of Vienna. Since his thesis work, he has focused on VoIP-related technologies, and now works for NIC.AT, which he joined in June 2007. In addition, Karl has contributed to a number of projects related to VoIP-based emergency calls. Furthermore, he has developed several prototypes of emergency calling technologies and is active in emergency-relevant working groups in the IETF.

Richard Barnes, BBN Technologies, USA
Richard Barnes is a leader in standards related to security and real-time applications on the Internet. He currently chairs the IETF GEOPRIV working group, and serves on the program committee for the Emergency Services Workshop. In addition, as a scientist at BBN Technologies, he leads efforts to prototype geolocation and emergency services technologies.

Foreword
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Calling over the Internet
VoIP emergency calling problem statement
Emergency Communication
Overview of this book
References
Emergency Calling
Overview
Infrastructure requirements
The role of location information
References
The ECRIT emergency calling architecture
Overview
Location information
Service URNs
Determining the appropriate PSAP - the LoST protocol
The Emergency Call Itself
Home Dial String Configuration via LoST
Deployment models
Considerations for proxies
Standardization
Summary
References
Including location information
Location configuration
Positioning using GPS
Network-based positioning
Location Hiding
Default Location
References
Implementation and Regulatory considerations
Distribution of implementation tasks
Austria
United States
European Union
Japan
Summary
References
VoIP emergency calling in practice
Software
Practice Exercises
References
Security
ECRIT security
Location security
PSAP and VoIP network security
References
Ongoing emergency calling work
Prototyping, Implementation, and Interoperability
Ongoing Standardization Issues
Ongoing Implementation issues
References
Summary and the outlook for the future
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