Emergency Communications over Satellite: the WISECOM Approach

This paper presents the overall architecture of the WISECOM system, which can quickly re-establish and provide telecommunication services after a disaster. The architecture is explained and it is described together with a role model, which adapts to the system. The work tries to map the existing complex interactions taking place nowadays in an emergency situation to a sensible architecture, which can accommodate all needed actors and roles, and which can exploit, at the same time, the newest wireless technologies.