Public safety communications: Enhancement through cognitive radio and spectrum sharing principles

IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 54-61

  Ferrús, Ramon ^a   Sallent, Oriol ^a   Baldini, Gianmarco ^b   Goratti, Leonardo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b ETSI Technical Committee ^*  (Turkey)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE RADIO TECHNOLOGIES; DISASTER RELIEF; EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION; EMERGENCY SCENARIO; ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES; KEY DIMENSIONS; NETWORK CAPACITY; PUBLIC SAFETY; SPECTRUM SHARING; TRAFFIC LOADS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

DISASTER PREVENTION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COGNITIVE RADIO;

EID: 84861455551     PISSN: 15566072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MVT.2012.2190180     Document Type: Article

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