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ETSI activities on Critical Communications

ETSI activities on Critical Communications. Adrian Scrase, ETSI. GSC-18 Meeting, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis, France. What Standards does ETSI produce?. ETSI prepares standards which: Help prevent emergency situations from occurring

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ETSI activities on Critical Communications

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  1. ETSI activities on Critical Communications Adrian Scrase, ETSI GSC-18 Meeting, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis, France

  2. What Standards does ETSI produce? • ETSI prepares standards which: • Help prevent emergency situations from occurring • Help alert those who need to be informed when an emergency situation has occurred • Help manage emergency situations once they have occurred GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

  3. PREVENTING EMERGENCY SITUATIONs GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

  4. Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems • Wireless communications-related applications intended to increase travel safety and reduce road fatalities and injuries • Providing information on vehicles, their location and the road environment • Allowing vehicles to communicate with each other and/or with the infrastructure • Public Safety organizations receive vital information from vehicles • Cooperative ITS can be used on-board emergency vehicles • Main current features of co-operative road safety are • Vehicle status or types warnings (e.g. emergency electronic brake lights, emergency vehicle warning, vulnerable road user warning) • Traffic hazard warnings (e.g. stationary vehicle warning) • Dynamic vehicle warnings (e.g. pre-crash sensing warning) • Collision risk warning TR 102 638 Over 50 Use case scenarios GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

  5. High Speed Railway Communication • Global System for Mobile Communications – Railway (GSM-R) • This standard defines the use of GSM as a network for rail transport infrastructure operators • It is used for communication between trains and railway regulation control centres • GSM-R is implemented worldwide and has been mandated for use in the EU as the standard for high speed railway communications since 1997 • LTE-R may be considered in a near future GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

  6. ALERTING IN CASE OF EMERGENCY GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

  7. Road Safety • eCall: automated call from vehicle to emergency services, based on 112 and including a Minimum Set of Data (MSD) such as location, vehicle type, etc • Standardization work complete (3GPP, ETSI, CEN) and stable, now in the implementation phase: • European eCall Implementation Platform hold regular meetings • New Europe to lead? High readiness in Romania, Croatia, Czech Republic • European Commission has: • Mandated Member States to upgrade Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) for eCall • Formally recommended mobile operators to support eCall • Made eCall necessary for type approval of vehicles from October2015 GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

  8. Maritime Safety • The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) is an integrated communications system using satellite and terrestrial radio to ensure coverage • The main GMDSS features for alerting are: • Emergency call: « classical VHF » • Digital Selective Calling (DSC): press red button during 5s to send an automatically formatted distress alert (including location, Maritime Mobile Service Identity (MMSI) of the boat) to the Coast Guard or other rescue authority via MF/HF/VHF maritime radio systems • Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) is automatically sending a message via satellite to an authority, when a ship is sinking • ETSI is active in a number of activities related to GMDSS GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

  9. Non-voice Emergency Communications • People with disabilities need to successfully access emergency services • ETSI has produced a specification on “Total Conversation” whereby emergency services authorities may be alerted using video and real-time text in addition to audio (TS 101 470) • SMS for emergency calls • Delivery inconsistencies and delays are a factor • May lead to an increase in hoax calls • A number of European countries have implemented SMS for hearing impaired people, but under a pre-registration scheme • The future of SMS emergency calls in Europe is at present uncertain GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

  10. Enhanced Caller Location • For emergency calls using traditional networks (fixed or mobile) the caller location information is readily available. This is not the case for VoIP services (such as Skype). • ETSI is responding to the European Mandate (M/493) in support of the location enhanced emergency call service • The aim of the mandate is to standardize the determination and transport of caller location information for VoIP including a single functional model, the necessary interfaces and protocols • This includes routing of the emergency call to the most appropriate PSAP and transmission of the location information of the caller • Work is underway • A functional architecture (e.g. identification of all interfaces) to determine the standardization work needed has been produced (ES 203 178) • The definition of protocols, based on the previous deliverable, has started (ES 203 283) GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

  11. Public Warning Systems • The Public Warning System (PWS) is an emergency service that delivers alert messages to mobile devices using the Cell Broadcast Service (CBS) • PWS was first defined to cope with natural disasters such as Earthquakes and Tsunamis • It has now been generalized to cover other emergency situations • Cell Broadcast uses a dedicated signalling channel, different to that used for voice/data, and therefore not affected by network congestion • The European implementation is called EU-Alert GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

  12. EU-ALERT • European requirements: • Different interface languages have to be taken into account • No regulatory regime apart from an amendment of the Universal Service Directive in which the Members States are asked to implement PWS • When implemented, the letters EU will be replaced by characters identifying a particular country , such as NL-ALERT for the Netherlands • The Netherlands is the first EU Member State to start EU-ALERT trials and will now move to implementation • UK, France, Belgium, Spain & Greece are currently investigating the possibility of deploying EU-ALERT GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

  13. Managing EMERGENCY SITUATIONs GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

  14. TETRA and Critical Communications Evolution • Narrowband (TETRA Release 1) and Wideband (TETRA Release 2, “TETRA TEDS”) Complete, continued maintenance • Study into Air Interface Encryption algorithm replacement • User Requirements Specification Mission Critical Broadband Communications; Application (TR 101 022-2 stable draft) • Technical Report for the Critical Communications Architecture Reference Model (TR 103 269-1) • The Critical Communications application mobile to network interface architecture (TR 103 269-2 early draft) GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

  15. Digital Mobile Radio • Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) is a technology standardized by ETSI and divided into three tiers: • Tier 1: License-exempt: direct mode, no infrastructure for consumers, and short range professionals • Tier 2: Licensed conventional: direct mode including infrastructure for business applications • Tier 3: Licensed trunked: for public safety and mission critical users • DMR was intended as a direct replacement of analogue PMR • It started with DMO but now also includes trunking capabilities • Further work needed to ensure interoperability GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

  16. Satellite Emergency Communications • ETSI is preparing standards in the area of satellite emergency communication, in particular involving broadband services. • Scenarios covering the set-up of a temporary emergency communication cell based on Wifi, VHF/UHF, WIMAX, GSM or TETRA which is then linked/backhauled to the permanent infrastructure by means of a bi-directional satellite link • This will form ETSI’s response to the European space mandate (M/496) to develop standards for the space industry, more particularly concerning disaster management GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

  17. Satellite and Pseudolite Navigation • Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) standards for minimum performance, reference architecture, data exchange protocols and testing • Standards for the deployment of GNSS pseudolites with operational GNSS systems and systems operating in adjacent bands Doc SESSCN(14)000017 GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

  18. LTE for Critical Communications • ETSI co-operation with 3GPP • Preserve strengths of LTE while adding features needed to support critical communications • Maximise technical commonality between commercial and critical communications aspects Requirements & Technical Input LTE Enhancements Cellular Industry GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

  19. Proximity-based Services - Release 12 • Enable devices to detect other devices in proximity and allows devices in proximity to communicate directly • Enable communication without network coverage • Reduce network load • Increase capacity in given bandwidth Network Cell Site Critical Communications only Also of interest forconsumerapplications GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

  20. Group Communication Enablers - Release 12 • Enable efficient group communication • Dynamic groups with mobile users and dispatchers • Support for large groups (perhaps up to 5000) • Service continuity for transitions between unicast and multicast bearers Network Group Callapplication server Dispatcher Cell Site Cell Site GroupMembers GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

  21. Isolated E-UTRAN operation – Release 13 • Enable locally routed communication • for “nomadic” eNodeBs operating without backhaul connectivity • for “regular” eNodeBs experiencing temporary loss of backhaul connectivity Network Cell Site GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

  22. Mission Critical Push-to-Talk – Release 13 • Requirements to improve the E-UTRAN, EPC and application-layer functionality, including applications supported by UEs and external network elements (e.g. Application Servers) delivering Push To Talk functionality for Mission Critical voice for LTE. • Requirements include: • Floor control aspects • Group and individual PTT calls • Associated services including talker ID, location and emergency alerting • Interworking with other voice systems including PSTN and LMR/PMR GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

  23. Conclusions • The standardization of Critical Communication systems is essential… • …and so is the participation of the wider Critical Communications community in preparing those standards • Better knowledge sharing and collaboration is required between all stakeholders • Global solutions offer significant economy of scale advantages • Intelligent use of modern ICT technologies will help save lives • But, Prevention is always better than cure….. GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

  24. And finally...a date for your diary http://www.etsi.org/news-events/events/794-2014-11-etsi-summit-on-critical-communications-in-case-of-emergency GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

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