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Public safety communications are characterized by many different communication systems, with widely varying capabilities and features. Such systems are often incompatible, because they are based on different standards. The paper describes the potential application of Reconfigurable Radio Systems (RRS) to the Public Safety domain to improve the communication capability and remove the interoperability barriers. A number of prototypes have been developed on a low-cost RRS platform (GSR-USRP). The prototypes have been tested against Public Safety communications radio terminals.
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Baldini, G., Giuliani, R., Symeonidis, D. (2008). Reconfigurable Radio Systems for Public Safety Based on Low-Cost Platforms. In: Ortiz-Arroyo, D., Larsen, H.L., Zeng, D.D., Hicks, D., Wagner, G. (eds) Intelligence and Security Informatics. EuroIsI 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5376. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89900-6_24
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