5G Experimentation for Public Safety: Technologies, Facilities and Use Cases

IEEE Access
Author: M. Volk (University of Ljubljana), J. Sterle (INTERNET INSTITUTE)
Today, legacy PMRs continue to be the only group of tested, verified and certified technologies for the Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR) sector. For the fifth generation (5G) to follow suit, substantial hands-on experimentation with functional, architectural and deployment aspects is required, and further test trials need to take place in order to inform and enable future verification and certification procedures for 5G to become a proven PPDR technology. This paper studies 5G PPDR experimentation associated with novel virtualized and cloud-native 5G technologies, architectures and deployment options, as well as feasibility studies and field performance and verifications trials involving vertical-specific 5G infrastructures and applications. The document is available on IEEE Explore website with the DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3064405
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9371761