IEEE Access Special Section Editorial: Mission Critical Public-Safety Communications: Architectures, Enabling Technologies, and Future Applications

• Main Authors: Zeeshan Kaleem, Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Muhammad Ali Imran, Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir, Abbas Jamalipour, Ejaz Ahmed
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2018-01-01
• Series: IEEE Access
• Online Access: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8589037/

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.