Texas A&M: Suman Bhunia showcases LTE-network backpack, components of DistressNet-NG architecture

Suman Bhunia of Texas A&M University highlights the features of an LTE backpack–containing an LTE core and eNodeB base station–in development that could be carried by public-safety personnel into an area that lacks traditional network coverage. The backpack is a key piece to the DistressNet-NG architecture that also plans to leverage direct-mode communications, relay communications and edge computing to provide first responders with the information they need in coverage-challenged scenarios.

Bhunia spoke with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson during the PSCR Public Safety Broadband Stakeholders Meeting conducted this week in Chicago.