PEACE Focuses on

PEACE project will be addressing two major technological challenges. First, a general solution for secure multimedia communication in extreme emergency situations will be provided. Such emergency services in cases of natural disasters or catastrophes will often involve the establishment of an ad-hoc networking environment. In this context, the PEACE project will be devising mechanisms for fast and lightweight establishment of trust relations between ad-hoc members of an emergency team and ensuring the security of their communication. Further, to enable multimedia communication in such environments, an architecture will be provided for supporting the distribution of currently centralized services such as VoIP and name translation and supporting those services in a reliable manner withstanding any failures and changes of the network.

The PEACE project is structured into five technical work packages:

• WP1 “PEACE Project Management”
• WP2 “PEACE Emergency Architecture Requirements and Specification”
• WP3 “PEACE Emergency System Implementation and Prototyping”
• WP4 “PEACE Integration, Evaluation and Trials”
• WP5 “PEACE Dissemination and Demonstrations”