Evolution of the Public Safety and Security Mobile Networks

Matti Peltola
Additional contact information
Matti Peltola: Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Finland

Communications & Strategies, 2013, vol. 1, issue 90, 97-120

Abstract: The emergency services which we all take for granted will in future need high speed mobile data transfer to deliver these services to the people who need them. There are, however, numerous obstacles to implementing high speed data functionalities for PSS (Public Safety and Security) organizations; the two main critical factors being the limited available spectrum to deliver these emergency services as well as the challenge of financing the necessary modifications to improve the current system. The study undertaken here seeks an answer to the question of how to meet the future needs of PSS organizations by devising a number of hypothetical scenarios for investigation. The contemporary mainstream technology, TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio), is chosen as the scenario starting point when defining the roadmap of the future solutions. Using the scenario planning method, which is based upon the change forces identified, four future scenarios are defined, the timescale being the next ten year period up until 2022. According to the scenarios defined, alternative strategies for network operators are proposed. The following conclusions have been drawn: (1) emergency services need a dedicated network, the commercial BB (broadband) cellular network is, nevertheless, a feasible solution for non-critical data transmission; (2) the radio spectrum needs to be allocated for WB (wideband) in the

Keywords: public safety and security networks; PSS; scenario planning; TETRA; TEDS. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H76 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://repec.idate.org/RePEc/idt/journl/CS9005/CS90_PELTOLA.pdf

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:idt:journl:cs9005

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Communications & Strategies from IDATE, Com&Strat dept. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by BLAVIER Thomas ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).