This paper analyzes the impact of the evolution of mobile broadband networks from 4G
architectures toward 5G on mission critical push-to-talk (MCPTT) key performance indicators …

Mission Critical Services (MCS) are gaining interest among network operators to offer
alternative communications than conventional trunked radio systems. They promise a …

Public safety organizations around the world started migrating toward Long-Term Evolution
(LTE) networks to support the increasing needs for video and data. To address the unique …

The society as a whole, and many vertical sectors in particular, is becoming increasingly
digitalized. Machine Type Communication (MTC), encompassing its massive and critical …

In this article, we study feasibility issues of mission-critical push-to-talk (MCPTT), which is an
evolution of a group communication service for public safety use. Along with the overall …

There is a growing interest in adapting mission critical public-safety communications from
traditional private radio technologies toward 5G. The need for resiliency and strong delay …

In this letter, we investigate Mission Critical Push-to-Talk (MCPTT) communications used by
emergency first responders that are currently migrating from legacy trunked digital Land …

The exponential growth of Internet of Things applications necessitates the design of next
generation cellular systems to provide native support for machine type communications …

The machine-type communication (MTC) plays an essential role in the mobile network
society and it has demonstrated its effectiveness to generate significant revenues for mobile …

The recently introduced 5G New Radio is the first wireless standard natively designed to
support critical and massive machine type communications (MTC). However, it is already …