On the performance of aerial LTE base-stations for public safety and emergency recovery

2013 IEEE Globecom Workshops, GC Wkshps 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1391-1396

  Gomez, Karina ^a   Rasheed, Tinku ^a   Reynaud, Laurent ^b   Kandeepan, Sithamparanathan ^c  

^a CREATE NET   (Italy)

^b ORANGE LABS   (France)

^c RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aerial network infrastructure; emergency communications; Long Term Evolution (LTE); low altitude platforms

Indexed keywords

BASE STATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE); MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AERIAL NETWORKS; AIRBORNE COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COMMUNICATION CAPABILITIES; COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE; COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION; LOW ALTITUDES; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SERVICES;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84902977946     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOMW.2013.6825189     Document Type: Conference Paper

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