A Framework to Support the Deployment of PPDR Services Across Edge and Cloud Domains

A network application approach towards 5G and beyond critical communications use cases

“…While appropriate standards for the support of PPDR services were described in Release 15 of the 3GPP specifications, including Mission Critical Push To Talk (MCPTT) (third Generation Partnership Project, 2017a), Mission Critical Video (MCVideo) (third Generation Partnership Project, 2017b) and Mission Critical Data (MCData) (third Generation Partnership Project, 2018), EU public safety organisations continue to rely on legacy PPDR networks, such as TETRA, TETRAPOL, P25, and DMR (Neto et al, 2022). To incentivise a transition of PPDR services to commercial broadband networks, the benefits of 5G technology for this vertical are well-documented in the scientific literature (Franchi et al, 2022;Borsatti et al, 2023), as have several frameworks, tools, innovative systems and research projects, to address service requirements in the sector (Apostolakis et al, 2021;Arampatzis et al, 2021;Chochliouros et al, 2021;Margetis et al, 2022;Sterle et al, 2022). Therefore, research focus has now shifted towards delivering reliable and unquestionable experimental evidence regarding the practical offerings of 5G to critical communications use cases (Volk and Sterle, 2021;Borsatti et al, 2023).…”