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Mission-Critical Services in 4G/5G and Beyond: Standardization, Key Challenges, and Future Perspectives.

Florin Rastoceanu, Constantin Grozea, Mihai Enache, Raluca Nelega, Gergo Kovacs, Emanuel Puschita

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Review in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Florin RastoceanuMilitary Equipment and Technologies Research Agency, 16 Aeroportului Street, 077025 Clinceni, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-5255-2590
Constantin GrozeaMilitary Equipment and Technologies Research Agency, 16 Aeroportului Street, 077025 Clinceni, Romania.
Mihai EnacheMilitary Equipment and Technologies Research Agency, 16 Aeroportului Street, 077025 Clinceni, Romania.
Raluca NelegaNational Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, 67-103 Donat Street, 400293 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.ORCID 0009-0005-6251-7421
Gergo KovacsNational Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, 67-103 Donat Street, 400293 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Emanuel PuschitaNational Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, 67-103 Donat Street, 400293 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-5635-3011

Funding

Ministerul Cercetării și Inovării PN-IV-P6-6.3-SOL-2024-2-0213
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mission-critical services (MCX) comprise a standardized suite of capabilities including Mission-Critical Push-to-Talk (MCPTT), MCVideo, and MCData, designed to meet stringent requirements for availability, reliability, latency, security, and Quality of Service (QoS). These services are essential for public safety, emergency response, and other critical infrastructure domains, where communication performance directly affects operational effectiveness. Integration into 4G and 5G mobile networks, supported by targeted standardization efforts, has extended broadband capabilities to mission-critical environments. 5G networks provide the technical foundations for MCX through ultra-low latency (below 1 ms), high availability (99.999%), broadband throughput over 100 Mbps per user, deterministic QoS via network slicing, massive device connectivity (over one million devices per square kilometer), and seamless Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) integration. Technical enablers such as Proximity Services (ProSe), network slicing, and Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications (URLLC) are fundamental to delivering these capabilities. This paper reviews MCX architectures, service frameworks, and protocols, relating MCPTT, MCData, and MCVideo to the key performance requirements defined in ITU-T M.2377-2. It also examines the frozen features of 3GPP Release 19, including enhancements to MC services, NTN integration, Reduced Capability device support, sub-meter positioning, extended network slicing for Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR), and strengthened security mechanisms. Finally, the study addresses challenges such as standard maturity, interoperability, and deterministic QoS, identifying research priorities toward 6G readiness. By consolidating advances from standards bodies, research initiatives, and deployments, this work serves as a technical reference for scalable, secure, and standards-compliant MCX solutions in current and future networks.

Indexed as

3GPP standardizationLTELTE/4G/5G networksmission-critical services (MCX)Proximity Services (ProSe)Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR)Quality of Service (QoS)Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications (URLLC)

Identifiers

PMID40872019
PMCPMC12390225

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