A Clear and Concise Introduction
Radio users around the world depend on P25 for their mission-critical communications. The P25 standard has been adopted by many industries such as utilities, airports, transit, petroleum, and chemical companies that rely on mission-critical communications and interoperability with public safety agencies in an emergency. This course discusses the P25 goals and system model and its components, features, functions, services, interfaces, infrastructure and configurations. It will also review the P25 channels and network control elements, the conventional and trunking systems, the coverage configurations such as simulcast, multicast, and voting as well as the consoles and subscriber units. The course will cover the evolution of land and digital mobile radio technologies in the final section.
What you’ll learn
- Discuss P25 goals and system model.
- Understand P25 components, features, functions, and services.
- Review P25 interfaces, infrastructure and configurations.
- Learn P25 channels and network control elements.
- Review P25 conventional and trunking systems.
- Discuss P25 simulcast, multicast, and voting.
- Review P25 consoles and subscriber units.
- Study the evolution of land and digital mobile radio technologies.
Course Content
- Introduction –> 1 lecture • 10min.
- P25 functions, interfaces, and channels –> 1 lecture • 11min.
- P25 network control, security, and subscriber management –> 1 lecture • 12min.
- P25 conventional/trunking systems, coverage configurations, consoles, sub units –> 1 lecture • 15min.
- Land and digital mobile radio technologies –> 1 lecture • 12min.
Requirements
Radio users around the world depend on P25 for their mission-critical communications. The P25 standard has been adopted by many industries such as utilities, airports, transit, petroleum, and chemical companies that rely on mission-critical communications and interoperability with public safety agencies in an emergency. This course discusses the P25 goals and system model and its components, features, functions, services, interfaces, infrastructure and configurations. It will also review the P25 channels and network control elements, the conventional and trunking systems, the coverage configurations such as simulcast, multicast, and voting as well as the consoles and subscriber units. The course will cover the evolution of land and digital mobile radio technologies in the final section.
The instructor was a technical editor for the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine for 10 years and has also guest edited for the IEEE Communications Magazine (2 issues) and the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications. His IEEE online tutorials were sponsored 8 times by industry. His research has appeared in the IEEE Spectrum and he received 2 IEEE best paper awards. He was invited by the National Science Foundation to participate in a workshop on Residential Broadband and received the National Association of Broadcasters Technology Innovation Award. He has also served as an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer with 10 invited lectures worldwide as well as an expert witness.