Extended Coverage for Public Safety and Critical Communications Using Multi-hop and D2D Communications

In this thesis, we proposed the use of device-to-device (D2D) communications for extending the coverage area of active base stations, for public safety communications with partial coverage. A 3GPP standard compliant D2D system level simulator is developed for HetNets and public safety scenarios and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Babun, Leonardo
Format: Others
Published: FIU Digital Commons 2015
Subjects:
LTE
Online Access:http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1920
http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2927&context=etd