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- Title
- Proceedings of the Workshop on Performance Criteria for Telecommunication Services under Earthquake Conditions. Held in Stanford, California on April 16, 1998.
- File
- PB99118952.pdf
- Author(s)
- Schiff, A. J.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA., July 15, 1998, 138 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- MCEER-98-0008
- Abstract
- The FEMA-NIST effort to develop seismic guidelines for lifelines takes a system approach in which performance criteria are to be developed for the system. The long-term objective is to establish appropriate seismic performance criteria for the public switched network (PSN), to address the needs of the National Security/Emergency Preparendness (NS/EP) Community, and to develop measures to assess if the criteria are being satisfied. Accordingly, a workshop was convened, the goals of which were: start the process of establishing seismic performance criteria by identifying critical issues that need to be addressed; explore methods for measuring if the criteria are being satisfied before and after earthquakes; explore additional topics, such as identification of research needs and impact of deregulation of the communications industry; generate a report summarizing the finding of the workshop. The plan for the workshop was to gather a small working group of telecommunications specialists to review issues related to the performance of communication systems, identify key issues that should be addressed in performance criteria, and suggest measures for evaluating them. This volume presents eleven of the workshop papers along with a workshop summary, recommendations, the workshop program and a participants list.
- Keywords
- Criteria; Vulnerability; Packet switching; Connectivity; Communication networks; Emergency preparedness; Public utilities; Performance evaluation; Communications traffic; Earthquake engineering; Earthquake damage; Meetings; Communication systems; Emergency power; Telephone systems; Seismic effects; Emergency management; Telecommunications