TY - JOUR
T1 - IEEE Access Special Section Editorial
T2 - Mission Critical Public-Safety Communications: Architectures, Enabling Technologies, and Future Applications
AU - Kaleem, Zeeshan
AU - Rehmani, Mubashir Husain
AU - Imran, Muhammad Ali
AU - Shakir, Muhammad Zeeshan
AU - Jamalipour, Abbas
AU - Ahmed, Ejaz
N1 - Funding Information:
MUHAMMAD ZEESHAN SHAKIR is currently an Assistant Professor with the University of the West of Scotland (UWS), U.K. Before joining UWS, in Fall 2016, he has been with Carleton University, Canada, Texas A&M University at Qatar, and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, on various national and international collab-orative projects. Most of his research has been supported by industry partners such as Huawei, TELUS, and sponsored by local funding agencies such as Innovate UK, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Qatar National Research Fund, and KAUST Global Research Fund. His research interests include design, development, and deployment of diverse wireless communication systems, including hyper-dense heterogeneous small cell networks, Green networks, and 5G and beyond-5G (B5G) technologies such as D2D communications, the IoT, and Networked-flying platforms. He has published over 90 technical journal and conference papers and has contributed to seven books, all in reputable venues. He is an editor of two research monographs and also the co-author of a research monograph entitled Green Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (Wiley and IEEE Press). He has been/is serving as the Chair/Co-Chair/Member of several workshops/special sessions and is in the technical program committees of different IEEE flagship conferences, including GLOBECOM, ICC, VTC, and WCNC. He has been serving as an Editor of Physical Communications (Elsevier) Journal and the IEEE Communications Magazine and has served as the lead Guest Editor/Guest Editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine, the IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, and the IEEE ACCESS. He is serving as the Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Emerging Technical Committee on Backhaul/Fronthaul Networking and Communications. He is an active member of the IEEE ComSoc and the IEEE Standard Association.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 IEEE.
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2885257
DO - 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2885257
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:85059653623
SN - 2169-3536
VL - 6
SP - 79258
EP - 79262
JO - IEEE Access
JF - IEEE Access
M1 - 8589037
ER -