IIR’s 15 th Annual FleetMobile COMMS 2006 Annual Conference and Exposition RACV Club, Melbourne

1. Project MESABroadband Mobility for Emergency and Safety ApplicationsAn International Case Study IIR’s 15th Annual FleetMobile COMMS 2006 Annual Conference and ExpositionRACV Club, Melbourne April 10-12, 2006

2. Presentation Overview • Introduction to TIA • Standards, Global Activities, Emergency Communications • TIA and PSPP MESA • MESA: Partnership for Broadband PPDR • MESA Scenarios • MESA Technical Specification Group – System • Main MESA Technical System Features • Some Key MESA Requirements • System Reference Model Architecture • MESA Technology Potential • Moving Forward • Contacts Note: The following terms, for this presentation, all relate to Safety and Emergency Applications: Public Safety and Protection, Disaster Relief and Response, Emergency Responders (First Responders and even Critical Infrastructure Restoration), and National Security

3. Introduction to TIA • TIA is a trade organization (trade shows/marketing and global public policy) and is a Standards Development Organization (SDO), serving the communications and information technology industry • In its Standards Development activities, TIA is open to participation globally and is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to develop standards used in the industry • Involves fair and transparent process that encourages the development of voluntary industry standards and technical documents that support global (national and international) ICT products and services • TIA is company and technology agnostic • TIA also contributes to and represents industry in international standards and multilateral groups

4. Introduction to TIA • 9 product-oriented Engineering Committees with over 70 subcommittees and working groups • Over 1,000 individuals from nearly 20 countries work in these formulating groups • Representatives from academia, laboratories, manufacturers, service providers, and end-users, including the government • Inclusive collaboration, strive for consensus

5. TIA Global Activities • Understanding of TIA technical work provided to other SDOs and ITU via Global Standards Collaboration (GSC), MoUs, direct collaboration, participation, conferences, etc. • Support “Emergency Communications” issues/Resolutions at GSC • TIA standards can form the basis of contributions to other SDOs (e.g., ITU, IEC, ISO, JTC1, ETSI, etc.) • And adopted by other nations and regions

6. TIA and Emergency Communications • TIA has a proven track record of supporting emergency responders, and has long been a catalyst for the wireless industry to develop and maintain public safety standards (analog and digital) for equipment and systems • TIA standards activities began in the 1920’s • One Committee, TR-8, has met continuously since 1944 and has been involved in producing standards for land mobile systems that serve the public safety community and other private radio users • TIA’s Engineering Committee TR-8 develops standards related to land mobile radio products and voice and data systems, utilizing narrowband, and wideband and now broadband technologies, involving both users and suppliers in its standards deliberation activities

7. TIA and Project MESA • Recent TR-8 activities have included Project 25 (102-series) for voice plus narrowband and wideband (902-series) data • Natural evolution to look at broadband mobile for Public Safety • Project 34 and TR-8.8 • Through broadband data emerges a paradigm shift– potential for commercial technology to facilitate data needs • Enhance Public Safety capabilities • Involvement of TIA TR-45, Mobile and Personal Communications Systems • Issues for Public Safety: Spectrum and systems (private/commercial ownership, operation and management), comprehensive SLAs, robustness and reliability of technology, other

8. Partnership for Broadband PPDR • Recognized that ETSI and TIA were independently working on similar projects • Challenges faced by Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR) professionals are similar throughout the world • Partnership program between ETSI and TIA • Formed in May 2000 using the “Partnership Project” model that was used in 3GPPs • This Public Safety Partnership Project (PSPP) named Project MESA in honor of the signatory city • Acronym fits well too—Mobility for Emergency and Safety Applications

9. Objectives MESA aims to coordinate and articulate globally applicable requirements and technical specifications for digital mobile broadband technology, aimed initially at the sectors of public safety and disaster response in support of local, regional and international responses to emergencies, disasters and day-by-day services • Based on continued professional user input and contribution

10. Project MESA Organizational Structure

11. MESA: Partnership for Broadband PPDR • Project MESA • Broadband communication capabilities for Public Safety and Emergency Services (i.e., NGN for PPDR, TDR, ETS, national security) • MESA #11 Press Release • http://www.tiaonline.org/media/press_releases/index.cfm?parelease=05-81 • Project MESA recognized by ITU-T and ITU-R • Project MESA broadband standardization activity documented in ITU-R Report M.2033 • Project MESA, and its OPs, were specifically mentioned in ITU-R WRC-2003 Resolution for ongoing Broadband PPDR standardization activities

12. MESA: Partnership for Broadband PPDR • Organizational Partners (OPs) • TIA, ETSI • Others are invited (ISACC, TTA, currently observers) • Individual Members • Affiliation with an OP registered to participate in MESA • Public Safety Members • Governmental or private entity providing public safety services (does not have to be OP affiliated) • List of participants • http://www.projectmesa.org/info/MESApeople.htm • Industry, Governmental, Universities/research, others • N. America, Europe, Korea, Australia, Japan, India …. • Including Bureau of Emergency Services Telecommunications, DoJ (Australia)

13. Criminal Justice Emergency management Special operations Health Services Fire services Coast Guard Search and Rescue Airport security Humanitarian assistance Hazardous materials Correctional Institutions Emergency Planning Central Government Land and natural resources Transportation Intelligent transport systems Highways Agency Others Specializations capable of utilizing MESA process/output

14. 57 Individual Members

15. 35 Public Safety Members

16. MESA: Partnership for Broadband PPDR • Meet twice a year • Completed our twelfth meeting • Alternating between Europe and North America • Electronic working methods at meetings • Electronic methods for discussions between meetings • Consensus Process with balanced leadership • Project MESA is unique in that requirements are derived from actual PPDR professionals • MESA SoR (being harmonized w/ national efforts) • Any national process can appropriately utilize and benefit from SoR (openly available to view)

17. MESA: Partnership for Broadband PPDR • Goals are to (1) internationally coordinate requirements/capabilities/scenarios, and (2) develop technology specifications for (inter)operable mobile broadband data for PPDR • Coordinated international collection of user requirements and technical derivations • OPs transpose MESA specs into regional and national standards • Facilitate economies of scale, identified commonalities • Leverage existing and emerging technology • Facilitate enhanced capabilities for Emergency Responders and other professionals with similar needs

18. Coordinated requirements and standards drive growth • May help establish a common infrastructure for competing products to interoperate • Simplifies development by defining a minimum set of common requirements • Enables new business opportunities and potentially even new markets • Consistency in marketplace • Critical for PPDR sector • Not a market “draw” like commercial services Trade Secrets Patents Innovation Standards and Industry Specifications

19. MESA: Partnership for Broadband PPDR • MESA Service Specification Group - Services and Applications (Users) • Statement of Requirements (SoR) • MESA #11 approved a revised user-defined MESA SoR • Available as TS 70.001 V3.2.1 • http://www.projectmesa.org/ftp/Specifications/ • Currently being transposed by TIA and U.S. PS groups • MESA SoR identifies • Mission descriptions and capability needs • General functional requirements • Operational requirements • Technology and applications • Compatibility requirements • Scenarios

20. MESA Scenarios • Typical scenarios were developed to stimulate thought about possible applications

21. Coverage Wide Area Single Site Indoor Urban Rural Day-by-Day Environment Emergency Disaster Situation MESA Scenario Classes • MESA scenarios are broken into classes • Environment • Situation • Coverage

22. Scenarios Goal is to utilize common specs that are applicable to multiple combinations Identified services can be sorted into 12 different categories or combinations • Indoor/Day-by-Day/Single Spot • Indoor/Emergency/Single Spot • Urban/Day-by-Day/Single Spot • Urban/Day-by-Day/Wide Area • Urban/Emergency/Single Spot • Urban/Emergency/Wide Area • Urban/Disaster/Wide Area • Rural/Day-by-Day/Single Spot • Rural/Day-by-Day/Wide Area • Rural/Emergency/Single Spot • Rural/Emergency/Wide Area • Rural/Disaster/Wide Area

23. Example of Network Architecture (1)Indoor/Emergency+Day-by-Day/Single Spot Remote Control Centre ISDN PSTN xDSL MESA Router MESA Router MESA AP • Peer-to-peer connection • AP-to-MESA nodes connection • AP-to-MESA router connection • Interoperability with external access networks both wired and wireless • Interconnection through MESA backhaul to the RCC MESA Node

24. Peer-to-peer connection • AP-to-MESA nodes connection • Interoperability with external access networks (TETRA, P25, TETRAPOL, 2G/2.5/3G,802.xx, …) • Interconnection through the backhaul to the Remote Control Centre (Command) Example of Network Architecture (2)Rural+Urban/Emergency/Single Spot Satellite backhaul Remote Control Centre (RCC) MESA AP+Router MESA Node

25. Satellite backhaul • Peer-to-peer connection; including AP-to-MESA nodes connection and AP-to-AP connection and AP-to-MESA router connection • Interoperability with external access networks • Interconnection through the backhaul to the RCC Example of Network Architecture (3) Rural+Urban/Emergency+Disaster/Wide Area Remote Control Centre MESA AP +router HAP backhaul MESA Node MESA AP+router MESA GW MESA AP +router MESA Node MESA Node

26. Interoperability with external access networks • Interconnection through the satellite link to the Remote Control Centre Satellite backhaul Example of Network Architecture (4)Rural+Urban/Day-by-Day/Single spot+Wide Area Remote Control Centre (RCC)

27. MESA Technical Specification Group - System • MESA Technical Specification Group (TSG) now active in deriving technical specs from the MESA SoR user requirements • MESA #11 also approved a System Overview document (shows relationships between network) • This Technical Report is available as TR 70.012 V3.1.1 • http://www.projectmesa.org/ftp/Specifications/

28. MESA Technical System Features • Examples of high-level MESA-defined user requirements, to be translated into technical parameters for broadband data system needs for safety and emergency services • Reliable (day-to-day, critical conditions, special events, ad-hoc) • Able to ensure multiple levels of security and encryption • Easy and fast to deploy, as applicable • Able to guarantee the requested Quality of Service (QoS) • Flexible • Adaptable, reconfigurable, scalable • Self-organizing • Able to locate nodes, sensors, robots … • Interoperable w/ existing & ad-hoc private and public infrastructures • Can be complementary to and interwork with wireline/other infrastructure components • Broadband • Mobile • Low-power consumable

29. MESA Technical System Features • Main themes • Auto-establishing, self-healing, robust • “Plug and play;” Resilient • Ad-hoc and Mesh networking • Bit rates approaching 2 Mbits/sec & above (i.e., ITU-R definition for Broadband) • Independent (agnostic) of radio spectrum • Cognitive capabilities • A reasonable tuning capability included in the key technology to accommodate regional requirements (cognitive or multi-band chip) • Dedicated or non-dedicated spectrum; depending on needs • Secure end-to-end transparent encryption (as required) • Seamless switching to global broadband infrastructure • Enhanced access and terminal capabilities • Potentially independent of public infrastructures and public supply of electrical power

30. MESA Technical System Features • A realized system could be installed as either a private system owned by the government or a governmental/commercial partnership that provides applicable service to PPDR-related agencies • Need for aeronautical and/or terrestrial digital broadband data over mobile wireless communication links (voice is secondary) • Dedicated and/or non-dedicated spectrum; depending on deployment options (could also utilize commercial capacity (for data/voice) to enhance existing voice systems or provide redundancy) • Process also supports ongoing migration path efforts from today's analog systems to the next generations of PPDR digital systems

31. System Reference Model Architecture MESA as a System of Systems Other New Technology Ad-hoc Project MESA New Technology New Technology Other MESA Solution Space Cellular (2, 2+, 3G) UWB B3G, 4G New Technology Mobile Broadband New Technology Trunked New Technology • Technical Fora • Standardizationbodies Broadband MESA Search Space

32. Common Service Specifications Common Technical Specifications Int’l SDOs & other uses MESA Documents Via OPs ETSI Standards TIA Standards Other Partners Standards

33. MESA Technology Potential • Mobile Ad-hoc networks • “Moving hot spot” (Managed) • Auto establishing network • “self-healing” • Ultra-fast deployment

34. Camera is Calling • Automatic Recognition & Detection Capabilities • - Sound • - Image • - Movement • - Material • - Radiation

35. Broadband out there • Rural terrestrial SATCOM support • Up/Down voice and data links • Mobile Broadband Repeater • Remote Disasters • Evidence gathering • Real-time ID • Surveillance • Remote sensing

36. Other MESA Applications • Mobile robotics • Remote hazardous material inspection and removal • Anti-terrorist action • Rescue in hazardous locations • Incident response (tactical and non-tactical)

37. Other MESA Applications • Remote patient assistance & monitoring (Emergency and Medical Services--EMS) • Video on-line • Blood pressure • Cardiac activity • Encephalographic data • Body temperature Bit-rates can help save lives

38. Illustration of a MESA-capable Firefighter Other MESA Applications • The MESA Firefighter • Biometric monitoring • Full Command Control and Communication (C3) • Infra-red/visible light video monitoring • Positioning (to 3D) • Environment monitoring

39. Example of full on-site Command Control and Communication

40. Fast, deployable, compatible • Auto-establishes network • Recognize terminals Mobile Ad-Hoc Network ” The Moving Hot-Spot” Airborne Control Backhaul Satcom Link The MESA Firefighter Telemedical Assistance

41. MESA Technology Potential Network & terminal components automatically establish a functioning network based on wireless nodes. Underlying BB capability. MESA City Fixed/Wireless Ad-Hoc Network

42. Moving Forward • Progress existing Work Items • MESA TSG SYS articulating MESA SoR into technical capabilities and specifications • MESA deliverables will be developed and transposed, as necessary, into national/regional standards involving next-generation mobile broadband technology for PS, security and emergency response professionals • Approved Specs recently transmitted to OPs for transposition • User-defined SoR is “Living” Document and so open to revision as needed (contribution-based)

43. Moving Forward • MESA participants will utilize “System of Systems” capabilities and specifications approach • Leverage existing or near-term technologies/services that are capable of providing needed bandwidth and convergence services for Next-Generation PS communications and access options (high security/varied connectivity) • Identify PS requirement gaps in existing standards • Develop specifications for new or adapted technologies/services where none currently exists that support PS needs

44. Moving Forward • MESA #12 (Boston, April 2006) saw the introduction of five technology proposals by manufacturers and providers • Important step forward (Press Release will be available soon) • Enhanced capability Proposals currently include cdma2000 EV-DO, OFDMA, W-CDMA-HSDPA, 802.11x/ma/PHY, 802.16e and satellite • Next 6 months: Air Interface Incident Area Networking Technologies and Specifications analysis from Industry Responses received • Other proposals welcome next meeting (must follow format set at this meeting) • Broadband Data is primary concern (voice secondary) • Location Based Services also identified for short-term • MayDay XML Data Tags work too (fire, EMS, etc.) • Longer term Focus: Jurisdiction Networking Broadband Specifications and Interworking Specifications

45. Moving Forward • Example: The District of Columbia deployed a successful pilot network based on Flash-OFDM in 2004 in the 700 MHz band • Flash-OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) divides spectrum into several equally spaced tones or frequencies, which ensures there is no interference between users on the same cell • The IP-based technology is spectrum-agnostic, can operate in interference-riddled spectrum and is able to transmit data at peak rates of 3 Mb/s, with average throughputs of 1.5 Mb/s

46. Moving Forward • MESH Technology Example: • A quad-radio product that operates in both the 2.4 GHz and 4.9 GHz bands • Currently being deployed in 12 U.S. cities; this platform type uses two standard 802.11 radios and two proprietary Mesh-Enabled Architecture (MEA) radios in one solution • The four radios can be turned up as needed and intelligently configured — either as access or backhaul — on a link-by-link basis • Other Mesh features include fast self-forming, self-healing, built-in location and tracking of radios via triangulation, and support for user connectivity at megabit speeds • Such a system also can support seamless handoff between nodes • Eventually will be married with WiMAX once 802.16e is standardized and profiled to work in the unlicensed band (in U.S.)

47. Moving Forward • MESA OPs, including ETSI and TIA, continue to facilitate government and industry awareness and coordination • Encourage participation in, or communication with, Project MESA (via OPs TIA and ETSI) by affected agencies and administrations, standards groups, equipment providers, service providers, research organizations, etc. • TIA and ETSI working to raise awareness/outreach levels (regionally/globally), coordinating existing and identifying future R&D efforts for critical Next-Generation needs of Public safety, security and emergency users

48. Moving Forward • The MESA approach represents a continuing challenge to the industry, as public safety organizations may require communications (1) to operate on a variety of networks and systems, from dedicated radio to personal area, incident area and jurisdictional networks, to 3G networks and beyond; and (2) include very stringent form factors, network integrity, QoS, and other requirements not normally found in most commercial deployments • Such capabilities will extend the tools available for emergency communications users • Including video and high-speed data in ubiquitous, wide-area, multiple agency or stand-alone (ad-hoc) networks and voice

49. TIA Contact Information David Thompson Staff Director, Global Standards and Technology Tel: +1-703-907-7749 dthompson@tiaonline.org www.tiaonline.org www.projectmesa.org

50. Project MESA Contacts • Main Web site • www.projectmesa.org • Information also available at • www.tiaonline.org and http://www.tiaonline.org/standards/technology/mesa/ • (Re MESA, TR-8, TR-45) • MESA Secretariat • mesasupport@etsi.org