Analysis of public safety traffic on trunked land mobile radio systems

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1197-1205

  Sharp, Duncan S ^a   Cackov, Nikola ^b   Lasković, Nenad ^b   Shao, Qing ^b   Trajković, Ljiljana ^b  

^a Planetworks Consulting Corporation   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analysis of voice traffic; Mobile communications; Public safety networks; Radio systems

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; CARRIER COMMUNICATION; CHANNEL CAPACITY; DISASTER PREVENTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MULTICASTING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RADIO TRANSMITTERS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

ANALYSIS OF VOICE TRAFFIC; CONTROL CHANNELS; PUBLIC SAFETY NETWORKS; PUSH-TO-TALK (PTT);

MOBILE RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 4444383156     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2004.829339     Document Type: Article

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