Ubiquitous robust communications for emergency response using multi-operator heterogeneous networks

Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Volumn 2011, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Fragkiadakis, Alexandros G ^a   Askoxylakis, Ioannis G ^a   Tragos, Elias Z ^a   Verikoukis, Christos V ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA CTTC   (Spain)

Author keywords

3G; Emergency response; Heterogeneous networks; Inter operability; Public safety; Re tasking; Security; TETRA; Ubiquitous environments; Wi Fi; WiMAX; Wireless mesh networks

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DISASTERS; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MESH GENERATION; MESH NETWORKING; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; RADIO TRANSMISSION; VIDEO STREAMING; WI-FI; WIMAX; WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS (WMN);

EMERGENCY RESPONSE; PUBLIC SAFETY; RE-TASKING; SECURITY; TETRA; UBIQUITOUS ENVIRONMENTS;

EMERGENCY SERVICES;

EID: 84964297340     PISSN: 16871472     EISSN: 16871499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1687-1499-2011-13     Document Type: Article

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