Empirical Rates Characterization of Wearable Multi-Antenna Terminals for First-Responders

Crespo-Bardera, Estefania; Rodríguez, Mauricio; Sanchez-Fernandez, Matilde; Rajo‐Iglesias, Eva; Feick, R.; Valenzuela, R.A.

doi:10.1109/access.2019.2890877

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“…The expectations for the use of massive MIMO in PPDR are primarily focused on improving network coverage, in particular at the cell edges and including remote locations where network coverage is relatively weak, as well as in scenarios involving mobility [34]- [36]. The use of UAVs in combination with massive MIMO is an emerging field in this respect [35] as well as proposals such as private body-worn antennae PSN deployments for improved indoor coverage [34], [37]. The capability of dynamic coverage adaptation to deliver a uniform user experience is specifically promising in this respect although significant research of the use of massive MIMO in PPDR is yet to take place.…”

Section: A Radio Access Technologiesmentioning

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5G Experimentation for Public Safety: Technologies, Facilities and Use Cases

Volk

Sterle

2021

IEEE Access

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Today, legacy PMRs continue to be the only group of tested, verified and certified technologies for the Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR) sector. For the fifth generation (5G) to follow suit, substantial hands-on experimentation with functional, architectural and deployment aspects is required, and further test trials need to take place in order to inform and enable future verification and certification procedures for 5G to become a proven PPDR technology. This paper studies 5G PPDR experimentation associated with novel virtualized and cloud-native 5G technologies, architectures and deployment options, as well as feasibility studies and field performance and verifications trials involving vertical-specific 5G infrastructures and applications. Key enabling technologies, such as massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO), device-to-device (D2D), network slicing and multi-access edge computing (MEC) are discussed and 5G PPDR architecture and deployment options are investigated. A dedicated 5G PPDR experimentation facility is presented, and a case study of hands-on experimentation is provided. Two distinct scenarios are discussed, i.e., emergency augmentation of the terrestrial 5G PPDR network with rapidly deployable on-site capacities in the area of a public safety incident, and availability and reliability of decision-support PPDR applications on the field. Experience with the deployment and verification insights are accompanied by the results of quality of service (QoS) and non-functional key performance indicators (KPI) assessment that were exhibited during the experiment. The experimentation outcomes confirm the ability of the facility to support emulated laboratory experimentation specifically designed to tackle 5G challenges for this particular vertical as well as field studies recreating realistic public safety operations.INDEX TERMS 5G, mobile communications, public safety, public protection and disaster relief, mission critical communications, network architecture, network deployment, experimentation, field trial.

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Section: A Radio Access Technologiesmentioning

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5G Experimentation for Public Safety: Technologies, Facilities and Use Cases

Volk

Sterle

2021

IEEE Access

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“…To illustrate that, we will show next the average achievable rates in different positions of the relay. The SNR model assumes an exponent path loss of 3.32 which has been measured in outdoor-to-indoor scenarios with the UE equipped with textile antennas placed underground [24]. The plots include as a reference the achievable rates of a direct link scenario, with no relay, showing which is the best relay configuration (normalized position) to improve the direct link achievable rates.…”

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Textile Multiantenna Technology and Relaying Architectures for Emergency Networks

Crespo-Bardera

Delgado

Martin

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Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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Every year around 200 million people are affected by hazards of different nature. In most of these situations public protection and disaster relief personnel are usually the first responders to provide help. To provide differential relief coverage in these scenarios, novel communication and network functionalities are being demanded, relegating today’s narrowband private radio (PMR) emergency systems to the background. These are data-support, increased coverage, broadband communication, and high reliability which will be addressed by novel communication technologies such as Long Term Evolution (LTE), LTE Advanced-pro, and future 5G. In this work we tackle two key technological solutions for future emergency communication networks such as an architecture based on relay nodes and enhanced user equipment by means of multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) techniques.

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Empirical Rates Characterization of Wearable Multi-Antenna Terminals for First-Responders

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5G Experimentation for Public Safety: Technologies, Facilities and Use Cases

5G Experimentation for Public Safety: Technologies, Facilities and Use Cases

Textile Multiantenna Technology and Relaying Architectures for Emergency Networks

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