IEEE Access special section editorial: Mission critical public-safety communications: architectures, enabling technologies, and future applications

Kaleem, Z., Rehmani, M. H., Imran, M. A. , Shakir, M. Z., Jamalipour, A. and Ahmed, E. (2018) IEEE Access special section editorial: Mission critical public-safety communications: architectures, enabling technologies, and future applications. IEEE Access, 6, pp. 79258-79262. (doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2885257)

Abstract

Disaster management organizations such as fire brigades, rescue teams, and emergency medical service providers have a high priority demand to communicate with each other and with the victims by using mission-critical voice and data communications [item 1) in the Appendix]. In recent years, public safety agencies and organizations have started planning to evolve their existing land mobile radio system (LMRS) with long-term evolution (LTE)-based public safety solutions which provides broadband, ubiquitous, and mission-critical voice and data services. LTE provides high bandwidth and low latency services to the customers using internet protocol-based LTE network. Since mission critical communication services have different demands and priorities for dynamically varying situations for disaster-hit areas, the architecture and the communication technologies of the existing LTE networks need to be upgraded with a system that has the capability to respond efficiently and in a timely manner during critical situations.

• Item Type: Articles (Editorial)
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Imran, Professor Muhammad
• Authors: Kaleem, Z., Rehmani, M. H., Imran, M. A., Shakir, M. Z., Jamalipour, A., and Ahmed, E.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering > Systems Power and Energy
• Journal Name: IEEE Access
• Publisher: IEEE
• ISSN: 2169-3536
• ISSN (Online): 2169-3536
• Published Online: 26 December 2018
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2018 IEEE
• First Published: First published in IEEE Access 6: 79258-79262
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy