Critical communications for all professional users

TelSoc BriefingMission Critical Communications

26 February 2019

Agenda: Mission Critical (MC)

• Introductions• MC LMR/Broadband- What, Why, How• International Standard Efforts & Progress• Mission Critical BB MVO/MVNO Models

-Example Public Sector

• MC Testing, Interoperability & Development- MC Plugtests- MCOP

• Questions & Answers

IntroductionThe Australasian Critical Communications Forum is a chapter of The international Critical Communication Association (TCCA)

TCCA represents some 140 organisations from around the world, bringing together all those with an interest in the provision of standardised wireless communications in a mission critical or business critical environment. Our Members are drawn from end users, operators and industry across the globe.

TCCA believes in the principle of open and competitive markets worldwide through the use of common standards and harmonised spectrum.

TCCA works closely with the organisations responsible for the development of standards relating to critical mobile communications. These include ETSI and 3GPP who develop and maintain standards for public mobile networks.

TCCA has a number of int’l work groups that have been formed to specifically support the Association’s objectives. Several Regional Forums like Australasian Critical Comms Forum support

Applications Working Group, Technical Forum (TF), SCADA, Smart Grid and Telemetry

Group Transportation Group Marketing Group,

Broadband Industry Group (BIG), Critical Communications Broadband Group

(CCBG) Security and Fraud Prevention Group (SFPG) TETRA Industry Group (TIG) – external

Highly successful ETSI MCPTT Plugtests

Further MCX Plugtestsplanned in 2018/19.

Open Source (OS) platform & APIs for MCPTT apps

published and in continuing development.

High interest amongst device and other vendors as

well as users.

Collaboration on test & certification of Mission

Critical UE devices.

Need for support from test equipment manufacturers.

Market Representation Partner (MRP).

Partnership Projects

TCCA has a number of ongoing global partnerships particularly relating to the evolution of mission critical radio technologies and supports the development and implementation of 4G/5G critical broadband

Professional LMR/PMR two-way radio systems are predominantly, although not exclusively, built around voice and low bandwidth data/messaging applications.

They have evolved highly sophisticated and wide-ranging and mission critical features based on fast connecting push-to-talk (PTT) technology e.g. TETRA, P25 and DMR.

Private LMR/PMR networks allow end user organisations to control their own infrastructure, coverage, capacity and spectrum, either directly or via a dedicated managed service.

.

What Typically Defines Mission Critical • Network availability 99.999% this typically means extreme high level redundancy and no single points of failure• Application traffic prioritisation, individual, group,

broadcast and emergency calls • Fast PTT call setup time – immediate call

connection• End to End Encryption

Digital LMR/PMR NB systems provide a wide range of users with reliable, secure and highly available “mission critical’ secure voice and low bandwidth data communications based on instant push-to-talk (PTT) technology.

Current Reliance on digital NB technology for mission critical LMR/PMR users

Benefits of standards : Why standardsTechnology standards provide assurance that products, services and systems are compatible and

will interconnect to protect user and business interests.

Standards create a constantly evolving ecosystem of investment, development and manufacturing, a competitive price environment and can signify confidence and security

Support all aspects of conformity and interoperability facilitating integrated solutions including compatibility or connectivity with other products, services and systems - reduces unnecessary variety in the marketplace

Encourage competition, competitive price environment, innovation and associated economies of scale globally

Risks of proprietary solutions:

Fragmented markets, potentially even negating global standardisation efforts

by creating ‘de facto standards’.

Potentially costly and technically risky due to single-source lock-in.

Incompatible networks & technologies

And “pre-standard” is not a definition that is recognised by any Standards

Development organisation and is simply a “marketing exercise”

Standardisation Benefits Clearly proven over years in the PMR/LMR/Public Cellular industry by TETRA, P25, DMR, GSM, UMTS, GSM-R, 4G (5G)

Transition LMR Broadband/LTE 4G/5G

Live video streaming,

Large file transfers, office applications in the field

instant telemetry (e.g. from ambulance to hospital)

Access to intranet, Secure internet browsing

all these apps and features are made possible by adding broadband LTE capability to professional LMR/PMR radio networks, will improve efficiency, safety and productivity

Professional Mobile Radio users want the same capabilities that we have on our smartphones

Public safety and mission critical User organizations want the same capabilities that we have on our smartphones BUT they also need mission critical functionalities, coverage, availability and security.

These smartphone capabilities include:

Requirements resulted in the development of

Mission Critical Broadband by 3GPPThe foundations for mission critical LTE have been standardised by the 3GPP standardisation body and the relevant mission critical features are being enhanced as specific use cases for critical applications are developed in the relevant 3GPP 4G and 5G releases

The role of 3GPP

(Graphic ©Qualcomm)

3GPP is part of the invention, proof of concept, standardization, trials, commercialization …cycle

Its role is to specify and maintain a complete system description for mobile telecommunications

The system description is characterized by a number of standardized interfaces, not a description of standardized deployment

This standardization approach enables an interoperable, multi-vendor approach to deployment and generates mass market economies of scale, without stifling innovation

(courtesy 3GPP)

Developing internetprotocol specs

ITU-R/TDeveloping Mobile application specs

Referring to 3GPP specs(contributed by individual

members)

Partners of 3GPPReferring to 3GPP specs for

the local specs

Referring to specs

Cross referenceDeveloping Wireless

LAN/MAN specs

Requirements

Input specs

JapanEU Korea China North America

Market Partners

Developing Recommendations

Terminal Certification

Terminal certification based on 3GPP specs

Cross reference of specs

A truly global participation in the 3GPP Eco-system

International co-operation is vital to develop mission critical broadband

(courtesy 3GPP)

India

Organizational Partners (OPs).

But is it just the same old faces?

• Participation in 3GPP, 594 member organizations in 41 territories • 3GPP Members now include, for example:

• Agricultural machinery manufacturers (e.g., John Deere, Husqvana) • Automotive manufactures (e.g, Volkswagen, Volvo, Toyota)• Rail (e.g., International Union of Railways)• Factory Automation companies (e.g., Siemens)• Energy Sector (e.g., Legrand)• Environment (e.g., Veolia)• Broadcasting Community (e.g., EBU, BBC, TDF) • Satellite Community (e.g., ESO, Inmarsat)• Aerospace (e.g., Lockheed Martin, BAE)• Retail Sector (e.g., Alibaba)• Social Media (e.g., Facebook)• Advertising (e.g., Google)

Full listing available here: http://www.3gpp.org/about-3gpp/membership

(courtesy 3GPP)

The 3GPP evolution path

3G / UMTS • Circuit Switched (CS) & Packet Switched (PS) Domains in parallel

LTE• All IP

• Mobile Broadband

• Voice over LTE (IMS/VoLTE)

LTE Advanced and LTE Advanced Pro• Paves the way for 5G

• Cellular Internet of Things

• Mission Critical Push To Talk/ MCx/MC Core

• Dedicated Core Networks, Traffic Steering, ...

5G

3GPP is on schedule with the standardization of 5G, addressing the expanded connectivity needs of the future

(courtesy 3GPP)

General framework for MCX

MCPTT enhancements

MC-Data

MC-Video

R14

Enhanced MCPTT, MC-Data, MC-Video

Interconnection between 3GPP defined MC systems

PMR/LMR interworking

R15

MBMS API for MC

MC for Railways

MC for Maritime

Enhancements for Public Warning Systems

Satellite access in 5G

Positioning

R16

Mission Critical PTT (MCPTT)

Isolated E-UTRAN Operation for Public Safety (IOPS)

R13

3GPP Mission Critical FeaturesReleases

Release 14

Release 15

(5G Phase 1)

Release 16

(5G Phase 2)

Rel-15 Stage 3

Rel-16 Stage 1

Rel-16 Stage 2

Rel-16 Stage 3

Rel-16 ASN.1

Rel-15 ASN.1

Rel-15 Stage 2

Rel-15 Stage 1

Rel-14 St.3 Extension

Extension

You are here…

3GPP standards release cycle

2018 Q3 2018 Q4 2019 Q2 2019 Q3 2019 Q42019 Q1

5G Vehicle to X (V2X)

5G URLLC enhancements

5G for Unlicensed spectrum operation

5G for Satellite

Release 16 – 5G Expansion

5G

Expansion

5G Industrial IoT

5G above 52.6GHz

MissionCritical related

2018 Q3 2018 Q4 2019 Q2 2019 Q3 2019 Q42019 Q1

5G MIMO enhancements

5G Location and positioning enhancements

Release 16 – 5G Efficiency

Non-orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA)

5G Power Consumption improvements

Interference Mitigation

Dual Connectivity enhancements

5G

Efficiency

5G SON & Big Data

Device capabilities exchange

Primary window for gradual managed

transition from narrowband to critical broadband

Transition timeline considerations

Narrowband TETRA / TETRAPOL / P25 /DMR etc. standard technologies available

Critical LTE data + voice technology available

End of technical lifetime for variousnational PPDR networks

Expected obsolescenceof GSM-R

2015 20302010 203520252020

UK ESMCPintention to transition

from TETRA to LTE

Implementation of FirstNet USA

Coexistence

Mission Critical Broadband Transition Timeline Considerations and Roll-out

3GPP railway communications work will leverage the mission-critical services specifications and will add to the economy of scale when deploying critical and

public-safety features. Replacement of GSM-R

Critical comms user has no assigned frequency spectrum for LTE/Broadband network, shares spectrum/network with a commercial mobile operator

Separate service level agreements to guarantee quality and security levels can then be negotiated under a network operator arrangement.

Critical comms user with no dedicated frequency spectrum, acts as a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) and provides critical communication service over an existing (MNO) network(s) deploying its own database, apps. (SLAs required)

Critical comms user provides only the related applications while a mobile network operator (MNO) owns and provides the LTE/Broadband infrastructure service

Potential Cooperation models

Building Mission Critical LTE Networks

Private LTE Networks Private/Government Critical Broadband Service Cooperation with Mobile (Virtual) Network Operator.

Secure Mobile (Virtual) Network Operator

[M(V)NO] Example in Public Safety

(and other Public /Private business critical organizations)

Presenter: Sohan Domingo

- Director ACCF & Nokia Public Sector Business Development

Narrow Band LMR & Challenges for Non-Voice Solutions

Primary means of instant voice communications with field personnel, and

control center operators

Built for Mission Critical environment so reliable, and resilient

Subscription base of over 45 Million users, and is expected to decline approximately to 43 Million

subscription by end of 2020

Does provide features, such as location of Radios, fast call setup time, group-calling, encryption, built-in emergency button on

Radios/Terminals, and Direct Mode Operations (DMO)

Various LMR technologies such as Analog LMR, DMR, P.25, TETRA, TetraPol

Limited Data

Capabilities

Challenges

Significant Capital

Investment

Expensive to replace,

and upgrade

Increasing use of Mobile Apps

Data rate usage for Public Safety is on the rise…

High

Medium

Low

Dat

a ra

te r

equ

irem

ents

• Full-duplex videoconferencing(“See what I see”)

• Near-real-time video streaming

• Bulk file transfer

• Email, VPN

• Web/Mapping

• Push-to-Talk, VoIP

• Remote database access

• Automatic database transactions

• Instant messaging

• Device/Person status, telemetry

• Geolocation

Why 4G/5G meets Critical Communications ?

Real-Time Video

Location, andmapping

DatabaseLookup, and reporting

Monitoring

Control room applications

Person to person & group Communication including

push-to-video

LTE (4G) today in Public Safety

Commercial Mobile Broadband

Network (LTE)

Public Safety LMRNetwork

Public Safety WAN/LAN

Agency Control Centre

First Responder Devices (LMR Radio, MDT, Tablets)

Commercial MNO for data services Ex: Vodafone/Telstra/Optus

Ex: LMR Voice Harris (TAS), & Motorola (Aus)

iPads / Smartphones,or MDT’s Field LMR Radio

LMR Backhaul

• Public Safety use LTE today mostly for data

• Commercial MNO’s provide the network

• Commercial Networks have not been designed for Mission Critical use

• Over the top PTT (not MCPTT) used occasionally for voice

• Interoperability between agencies not generally available on these commercial networks

Mission Critical LTE for Public safety

Dedicated networkinfrastructure

S-MVNOShared network infrastructure

Pure commercialnetwork infrastructure

Applications

Subscriber data(HSS)

Core network(EPC, IMS etc.)

Radio Network/Spectrum(eNodeB)

Public Safety

agency/Enterprise

Commercial Mobile

network operator

(MNO)

Note: Hybrid models combine

two or more solutions

Secure mobile virtual network operator for Public Safety is a win-win

Public Safety agencies retain the right level of control while benefiting from:• Time-to-market• Professional management• Cost savings• High resiliency and site density

MNOs benefit from:• New revenue streams• Funds for site hardening and coverage extension• Enhanced network also benefits commercial subscribers

MVNO: Mobile Virtual Network OperatorRAN: Radio Access NetworkS-MVNO:Secure MVNO

What is Public Safety Mobile Broadband ?

A high-speed broadband network built using mission critical standards, dedicated or shared across MNOs, that support the day-to-day mission critical voice & data operation of PSAs by providing the required end-to-end infrastructure such as the core, RAN, backhaul, applications etc. for the following services:-

And built using 3GPP mission-critical standards...

Data communication

Clear mission-critical voice communication Secure

Reliable High availability Extensive coverage Cost Effective

PSA applications (Ex: Analytics, CAD)

How will S-MVNO work during network congestion. Allocation and retention priority: Pre-emption:

Commercial subscribers

PoliceHigh priority access for police

Low priority access for commercial

S-MVNO LTEnetwork

Fire ServicesHigh priority fire subscriber request

Allocation & Retention Priority (ARP) determines bearer allocation

Commercial subscribers

PoliceHigh priority access for police

Low priority access removed

S-MVNO LTEnetwork

Insufficient resources

Fire ServicesARP creates new high priority access

ARP creates new high priority EPS bearer for Fire and removes low priority bearer –pre emption

Access Removed

Public Safety Application Eco-System using a LTE Network

Interoperability between LMR & LTE…

UEs LTE network LMR networkInteroperability

gateway

LMR tower

LMR portable radios

Wi-Fi network

LTE (Private)

LTE (Public)

Smartphone Ruggedized smartphone

Tablet

PTT capable apps

LMR core

Critical Comms on LTE infrastructure

Internet

Other apps

Wired

Wireless

Group comms

End-to-end solution available today, standards (3GPP TS 23.283 – V15.2.0 IWF)are being finalized..

IWF

What is 5G in a few words…

5G capabilities: 3 dimensions to building scalable mission critical networks

10 yearson battery

100 Mb/swhenever needed

eMTC (enhanced Machine Type of Communication)

10-100x more devices

10 000x more traffic

M2Multra low cost

>10 Gb/speak data rates

<1 msradio latency

Massivemachine

communication

ExtremeMobile

Broadband

Critical machine

communication

eMBB (enhanced Mobile Broadband)

URLLC (Ultra Reliable and Low Latency communication)

Local processing

Improved latency <10ms

• Augmented/mixed reality

• Automated threat detection

• Facial recognition

Massive MIMO, mmWave

• Real-time, enhanced CCTV with multiple 360°4K/HD video feeds

• Mobile emergency operation centers

URLLC

eMBB

eMTC

High amount of local sensors

• High data collections/analytics for the

operation center. Wearable IoT

• Incident noise detection

• Environmental sensors (fire, gas, heat,

pressure). Traffic control sensors

Concept of network slicing – Example of Public Safety sectorRequiring an “emergency” slice …

Artificial intelligence agent: Network analytics

HD mapslocal

V2X apps

PS emergency apps

Orchestration and assurance

End-to-end service

Public Safety

MCPTT Voice

MCData

AR/VR

Public Safety

Public Safety

Clouds

Group Comms Server (MCPTT)

Video Analytics

PS video surveillance

Multi-source artificial intelligence

Core

Core

Edge

Edge

Video surveillanceCameras at public site

IoT (Vehicle Data)

Emergency team

Smart City Operations Center provides full view over IoT andnon IoT data sources

Video surveillance

DispatchVideo analytics

Social media integration

Custom dashboards

Video tracker & wall

Incident management

Key capabilities• Real time integrated data visualization from

disparate data sources in a unified view, e.g. video wall

• Enables government agencies to manage their data, resources and assets and to prepare for events, co-ordinate and manage response efforts and enhance operational efficiency / anomaly detection

• Reduce the complexity of integrating systems and shorten time to market

• Flexibility to facilitate custom integration of solutions to meet customer’s needs

• Fully automated initiation of alarms and notifications to predefined groups of people

• Remote quitting of alarms

Solution Details• Single integration point to quickly and

efficiently integration other sub-systems

• Flexible deployment options (On-site and cloud)

Example:- From video to analytics to automated actions

Detect anomalies in real time video streams for predictive response

Critical communications for all professional users

ETSI MCPTT PlugtestsMission Critical Open Platform (MCOP)

Critical communications for all professional users

33

ETSI Plugtests™ since 1999

Purpose

• Provide essential feedback

• Enable early interoperability testing of implementations

Benefits

• Validation of standards

• Improved interoperability of products and services

• Support for deployment of new technologies

• Enabler of networking between partners, competitors and other experts.

Critical communications for all professional users

34

Key facts

• 25-29 June 2018

• Hosted by the Texas A&M University in their “Disaster City”

• Based on 3GPP Release 14

• MCPTT, MCData and MCVideo were tested

• 31 vendors participated

• Organized by

• Supported by

Critical communications for all professional users

35

based on 3GPP, ETSI and IETF standards

To assess the level of interoperability of your implementations

To validate Vendor and User understanding of the standards

To test with (many) other real implementations and demonstrate

end-to-end interoperability - to debug implementations:

To promote the technology and the ecosystem

Testing started with Rel 13

Interoperability and Conformance testing of the Critical Broadband technology

Conformance testing and Certification Scheme Since 25 January 2018 the Global Certification Forum(GCF) in cooperation with the 3GPP and the TCCA is extending its certification scheme to critical

communications devices paving the way for MCPTT device certification to start later in the year.

First MCPTT Plug tests in France June/2017: 140 participants of 19 vendors and Government agencies Plug Test in June 2018 in USA that included testing of MCData and MCVideo 31 participants Jan 2019 ETSI ended the third MCX Plugtests, which is the first remote Plugtests within the MCX Plugtests

programme.

Critical communications for all professional users

36

Future MCx Plugtests Program Planning

Wider focus: “MCx” – X stands for PTT, Data or Video

Goals

• More often and more continuous testing

• Alternate remote only tests with face-to-face tests

• Increase test coverage(* (e.g. Security, MCData, MCVideo)

User demands for test scope:

• Interworking with P25 and TETRA

• Device to Device Communication (direct mode)

(*subject to availability of standards and products

Documentation

© ETSI 2014. All rights reserved

https://portal.etsi.org/Portals/0/TBpages/C

TI/Docs/2nd_ETSI_MCPTT_Plugtests_Re

port_v100.pdf

Report

https://www.etsi.org/standards-

search#page=1&search=ts103564

Test Specification

Subscribe to MCX Plugtests Emailing List

© ETSI 2018. All rights reserved

Subscribe to MCX Plugtests Emailing list by sending email to plugtests@etsi.org

All relevant information will be communicated on this distribution list. (MCX_PLUGTEST@LIST.ETSI.ORG)

New emailing list will be created for the registered participants. (MCX_PLUGTEST_REG@LIST.ETSI.ORG)

Information source: Saurav Arora, MCPTT Plugtests Manager, ETSI

MC

OP

Harald Ludwig

harald.ludwig@tcca.infov2

Mission Critical Open Platform (MCOP) Project

Project UpdateInfo status: 30 August 2018

40MCOP Overview www.mcopenplatform.org

Research Project Background

Funded by the USA Public Safety Innovation Accelerator Program (PSIAP) Grant 2017

– Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR)

– A Division of the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Project Partners:

Website: www.mcopenplatform.org

41MCOP Overview www.mcopenplatform.org

Targets

Reduce Entry Barriers– Open and standardized APIs in the UE

– Overcome complex ecosystem issues

Avoid Reinventing the Wheel– Share Lessons Learnt and MCPTT awareness.

Foster innovation– Easy to use tools, hiding technology complexity

Makes it easy to develop Mission Critical Applications!

Clear & Simple API’s

43MCOP Overview www.mcopenplatform.org

Resources available

MCOP API Definitions releasedwww.mcopenplatform.org/mcop_resources

MCOP SDK releasedwww.mcopenplatform.org/mcop_resources

Online Testbed availabledemo.mcopenplatform.org

Mission Critical LMR Meets 4G and 5G

Initial driver for public safety work in 3GPP

Future capabilities of significant interest to mission critical communities

ENABLED BY - Mission Critical Open Standards

Save these Event Dates:Critical Communication World Kuala Lumpur 18-20 June 2019CommsConnect Sydney 12-13 June 2019 ( then Melbourne Nov 2019)

Thank youQuestions / Comments?

More information at:https://criticalcommsforum.com.au/

https://tcca.info/Email: kgraham@criticalcommsforum.com.au

Mobile: +61408571556 Join the TCCA Forum in Australia, Become a Member and influence the futureThe Australasian Critical Communications Forum (ACCF) is the Australasian chapter of The Critical Communications Association (TCCA) that is the front line force that drives the development and promotion of open standard critical communications solutions worldwide supporting ETSI and 3GPP.