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Public Safety Communications Research Public Safety LTE

Department of Commerce – Boulder Labs

Emil Olbrich NIST

PSCR LTE Lead

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Public Safety Communications Research Program

Located at the Department of Commerce Boulder Labs in Colorado

The PSCR Program is a

joint effort between

NIST’s Office of Law

Enforcement Standards (OLES)

and

NTIA’s Institute for

Telecommunication Sciences

(ITS)

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PSCR Vision and Mission

VISION The response community nationwide can exchange voice and data seamlessly to effectively respond to any incident or emergency. Seamless voice and data exchange refers to the ability of the response community to interoperate with each other on demand, in real time, when needed, and when authorized.

MISSION To fulfill this vision, PSCR will act as an objective technical advisor and laboratory to public safety to accelerate the adoption and implementation of only the most critical public safety communication standards and technologies.

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Game Changer…

• On February 22, 2012 President Obama signed the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 – US Public Law 112-96

• The section pertinent to telecom & public safety is: – TITLE VI – PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS AND

ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM AUCTIONS

This changed everything…

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Legislative Directive

• The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) will be

established by the National Telecommunications

Information Administration (NTIA)

– Established as an independent authority within NTIA

• FirstNet is required to establish a nationwide public safety

broadband network to be based on a single, national

network architecture

• The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will

reallocate and grant a license for the use of the 700 MHz

D block spectrum and existing public safety broadband

spectrum to FirstNet

– Holds the single public safety 700 MHz wireless broadband license

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First Responder Network Authority - FirstNet

• Headed by a Board – 15 members

– Secretary of Homeland Security

– Attorney General of the United States

– Director of the Office of Management and Budget

– 12 additional members selected by the Secretary of Commerce

• Takes all actions necessary to ensure the building,

deployment, and operations of the nationwide public

safety broadband network, in consultation with Federal,

State, tribal, and local public safety entities, Director of

NIST, the Commission, and public safety advisory

committee

• Ensures deployment phases with substantial rural

coverage milestones

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Public Safety Trust Fund

Sec. 6413 of the statute lays out the funding for FirstNet and other agencies which is primarily based on funds generated from incentive auctions of spectrum (see Sec 6401)

• $7,000,000,000 – total amount that will eventually be allocated t0 FirstNet

– $2,000,000,000 immediately available to the NTIA - borrowed from the US Treasury before incentive auction

• $5,000,000,000 will come later from spectrum incentive auctions

• $135,000,000 Available for state planning grants

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• AGREEMENT.—For purposes of

• subparagraph (A), a ‘‘covered leasing agreement’’ means

• a written agreement resulting from a public-private

• arrangement to construct, manage, and operate the nationwide

• public safety broadband network between the First

• Responder Network Authority and secondary user to

• permit—

• (i) access to network capacity on a secondary basis

• for non-public safety services;

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Market Share

• Creates a new nationwide spectrum block for public safety users and secondary users (e.g. Utility Companies)

– Includes all Emergency Support Functions (ESF) for local, state and federal users

– Approximately 2.5 million ‘first responders’

– 2010 Census data shows 22.6 million Fed/State/Local employees – This is our target • State – 5.3 million

• Local – 14.3 million

• Federal – 3 million

– Does not include redundancy, M2M or sensors

• Typical nationwide cellular service providers require approximately 40,000+ macro base-stations

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Terrestrial Network Population Coverage

98%

94%

90%

Ad-Hoc or Satellite Network Population Coverage

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700 MHz Spectrum

Lower 700 Band Upper 700 Band

Cavalier Wireless

Cavalier Wireless

? ? State/Local

Public Safety

Agencies

(Narrowband

LMR)

Ch

51

FirstNet

PS Narrowband

BC13 BC13 BC14 BC14 BC17

BC12

3GPP LTE

Bandclass

State/Local

Public Safety

Agencies

(Narrowband

LMR)

Ch 52

Ch 55

Ch 56

Ch 57

Ch 58

Ch 59

Ch 60

Ch 61

Ch 62

Ch 63

Ch 64

Ch 65

Ch 66

Ch 67

Ch 68

Ch 69

Ch 54

Ch 53

C C D D PSBB C B A E D C B A A B B G

B

G

B

698 716 722 728 734 740 746 752 758 764 770 776 782 788 794 800 806 710 704

757 763 769 768 775 787 793 799 798 805

BC17

BC12

MHz

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Mobile TX Mobile TX Mobile TX Base TX Base TX Base TX Base TX Base TX Base TX Base TX Mobile TX Mobile TX Mobile TX Mobile TX

PSBB PSNB PSNB

Current

License

Holders

(not full

list)

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FirstNet FirstNet

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NIST R&D

• SEC. 6303. NIST DIRECTED RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM REQUIRED ACTIVITIES.

• Director of NIST, in consultation with the First Responder Network Authority and the public safety advisory committee established under section 6205(a), shall

• (1) document public safety wireless communications technical Requirements

• (2) accelerate the development of the capability for communications between currently deployed public safety narrowband systems and the nationwide public safety broadband network;

• (3) establish a research plan, and direct research, that addresses the wireless communications needs of public safety entities beyond what can be provided by the current generation of broadband technology;

• (4) accelerate the development of mission critical voice, including device-to-device ‘‘talkaround’’ capability over broadband networks, public safety prioritization, authentication capabilities, and standard application programing interfaces for the nationwide public safety broadband network, if necessary and practical;

• (5) accelerate the development of communications technology and equipment that can facilitate the eventual migration of public safety narrowband communications to the nationwide public safety broadband network; and

• (6) convene working groups of relevant government and commercial parties to achieve the requirements in paragraphs

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Why we need to do this…Public Safety Interoperability

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Demo Lab & Location

• The initial laboratory and demonstration network utilize the PSCR facilities located in Boulder, CO.

– PSCR Boulder labs are used for EPC & RAN testing

– Local Application servers

– RF, signaling test equipment

• Multiple drive test

• RF Load testing

• End-to-End test capability – RF to individual EPC interfaces

– Multiple EPCs on site in various configurations – distributed and full core

– UICC programming capability

• Network modeling and simulation team dedicated to work on nationwide modeling and support our network – Develop own tools and use Opnet, Mentum &

Aircom

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Demo Project Stakeholders

NOTE: This is a partial stakeholder list

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Executed CRADAs

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Testing Phases

Phase 1

• Basic functionality testing •Physical layer tests to

ensure that the submitted equipment will not interfere with other existing 700 MHz LMR, PSCR demonstration systems

•Messaging/protocol tests

•Public safety application tests

•Basic drive test single user performance tests

Phase 2

• Phase 2.1 •Physical Layer Tests:

Examine several characteristics of the eNB that will indicate how this equipment will operate in PS scenarios.

•Throughput Performance Tests • Tests examine

throughput in bidirectional, downlink and uplink configurations.

• Phase 2.2 •Performance Tests

•Messaging/Protocol Tests

•Network O&M - Alarm/Fault Reporting

•Application/“Status Info Homepage” evaluation

Phase 3

•Network architecture type testing, including evaluation of various PLMN, eNUM and IP implementations

• Interoperability testing that includes testing the EPC and inter-connecting multiple EPCs • Basic RAN IOT – UE and

eNB based both

•Mobility, Handover & Roaming testing and evaluation (pending UE availability) • LTE-to-LTE (public safety-

to-public safety)

• LTE-to-LTE (PS to commercial)

• Stress, performance, messaging/protocol, application tests

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• Leveraging Multi Service Forum utilizing existing EPC IOT test plan to build off of with Comprehensive testing of multiple EPC interfaces (23 so far)

– Basic Interoperability: e.g. MME Pooling.

– Roaming and Interconnect

– Non-LTE Access to EPC

– Handover/Relocation

– Self Organizing Networks/Automatic Neighbor Relation

EPC Inter-Operability Testing

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• PSCR utilizing PCS Type Certification Review Board as UE Certification for our program NOTE: PSCR is not a PCS Type Certification Review Board certification (PTCRB) lab

• This is enough valid TCs to start Band 14 Certification

UE Testing

Specification Band Number of TC in RFT 76 Number of TC Valid Number of TC Valid as %

3GPP TS 36.521-1 FDD 14 53 45 85%

3GPP TS 36.521-1 FDD 14 29 12 41%

3GPP TS 36.521-1 FDD 14 288 225 78%

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PSCR Standards & Testing

• Lead and participate in public safety requirements development

• Generate interest from broadband vendors to develop a 700 MHz broadband equipment ecosystem

– Band Class 14 (D Block & Public Safety Block), Long Term Evolution (LTE)

– Stimulate early development for public safety systems (e.g. Waiver Orders)

– Support & participate in the commercial standards and testing process with public safety requirements e.g.

– Publish test results (non-attributable) to inform stakeholders

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Global Market

• US is leading the way globally for public safety LTE but we are working to build global public safety requirements

– European TETRA association – TCCA (signed support letter for PSCR on May 15, 2012)

– Sao Paulo Military Police Force and Brazilian Army preparing for World Cup.

– Hong Kong Police

– New Zealand/Australian protection forces

– Abu Dhabi Police

– Qatar Armed Forces

– Canada CITIG

– Dutch Police

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QUESTIONS & RESOURCE

For Additional Information:

http://www.pscr.gov

Emil Olbrich emil.olbrich@nist.gov