Public Safety Networks from LTE to 5G

Preface

The public safety community has undertaken significant strides towards strengthening its abilities and capacity, and improving the communication of emergencies. Public safety depends on fast and efficient levels of communication in order to properly relay time‐sensitive and critical pieces of information. The first responders, however, are still limited due to the presence of fragmented networks and the use of decades‐old technologies in public safety agencies. They are using land mobile radio (LMR) for the majority of their communications and, as a result, public security has struggled to communicate across jurisdictional and company lines.

The Department of Homeland Security's Office of Emergency Communications in the United States of America developed a document with the complete collaboration of the National Council of Statewide Interoperability coordination and SAFECOM. The document is designed to address a few concerns about community safety/public safety. According to this document, they will provide help to educate the selected appointed officials and the public safety community about future emergency communications. The document also includes the evolution of emergency communications and their relevancy to the traditional land mobile radio communications with wireless broadband in the future, and the requirements to achieve the desired long‐term convergence state. There are five critical success elements that are outlined for SAFECOM interoperability, namely ...