Mobile Broadband Data Applications and Capacity Needs

The advantages of having real‐time access to information via a broadband connection are obvious and pave the way for a wide range of data‐centric, multimedia applications that can greatly improve the operations of PPDR organizations. This chapter provides some estimates of the throughput requirements for different types of PPDR data‐centric, multimedia applications. Then, a quantitative assessment of the required data capacity for a number of ‘typical’ PPDR operational scenarios within the categories of day‐to‐day operations, large emergency/public events and disaster scenarios is presented. PPDR data‐centric applications can have very different rate requirements that place varying levels of demand on the capacity of a broadband mobile network. The estimation of the load on the network for each of these applications is necessary for the dimensioning of the infrastructure and spectrum assets.