RAPID: Collaborative Research:Using Lessons from the Disaster in Japan to Develop Communications for Emergency Situations

RAPID：协作研究：利用日本灾难的经验教训开发紧急情况下的通信

• 批准号: 1138665
• 负责人: Raj Jain
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-07-15 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1138665&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Collaborative; Research; Using; Lessons

NSF: RAPID: Collaborative Research: Using Lessons from the Disaster in Japan to Develop Communications for Emergency SituationsDuring disasters, the telecommunication infrastructure are usually heavily damaged or overloaded, which leads to serious disruptions in the warning and rescue operations. Similarly, part of the Japanese cellular Early Earthquake Warning (EEW) system were damaged during the March 11th earthquake and tsunami. This collaborative project proposes to study the disruption of emergency communications during the last disaster in Japan and investigate corresponding solutions. In particular, the project has the following three integrated objectives: 1) To study the cellular EEW system of Japan and its use in the March 11th earthquake in Japan; 2) To study the communication problems that were encountered leading to disruptions in warning and rescue operations; and 3) To explore tower-less phone-to-phone direct communication mode that can make the cellular phone communications much more resilient during disasters. This project supports collection of data about communication disruptions in Japan; treatment of such data to better understand the impact of telecommunication failures; and finally, solutions how to enhance the cellular system with ad hoc communications. The project is a close collaboration among PIs inthe US, their collaborators in Japanese universities and cellular service providers in Japan. The outcome of this project will lead to a deeper understanding of tradeoffs among robustness, simplicity, scalability, self-organization and adaptivity in designing a cellular emergency broadcast system for USA and beyond. The results of this project will have a direct and practical impact on developing an effective emergency warning system using the latest communication devices.

NSF：RAPID：协作研究：利用日本灾难的经验教训开发紧急情况下的通信在灾难期间，电信基础设施通常遭到严重损坏或超载，从而导致预警和救援行动严重中断。同样，日本蜂窝早期地震预警 (EEW) 系统的一部分在 3 月 11 日的地震和海啸中遭到损坏。该合作项目提议研究日本上次灾难期间应急通信的中断情况并研究相应的解决方案。具体来说，该项目有以下三个综合目标： 1）研究日本的蜂窝EEW系统及其在日本3月11日地震中的应用； 2）研究导致警报和救援行动中断的通信问题； 3) 探索无塔电话对电话直接通信模式，使蜂窝电话通信在灾难期间更具弹性。该项目支持收集有关日本通信中断的数据；处理此类数据以更好地了解电信故障的影响；最后，提出了如何通过自组织通信增强蜂窝系统的解决方案。该项目是美国的 PI、日本大学的合作者以及日本的移动服务提供商之间的密切合作。该项目的成果将有助于更深入地了解为美国及其他地区设计蜂窝紧急广播系统时的稳健性、简单性、可扩展性、自组织和适应性之间的权衡。该项目的结果将对使用最新通信设备开发有效的紧急预警系统产生直接和实际的影响。