Improving Rural Emergency Services with Cognitive Radio Networks in Sub-Saharan Africa

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new approach based on Cognitive Radio technology to address the challenges for ensuring connectivity in remote areas of Africa. Indeed, the current network coverage is concentrated around the cities with high density of population. Through the deployment of Cognitive Radio, emergency services in rural areas will benefit from low cost access networks. Cognitive Radio will be used to manage the selection/switching across different frequency UHF/VHF bands or TV White Spaces. © Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2014.