ETSI TS 102 868-1 V1.4.1 (2017-03)

ETSI TS 102 868-1 V1.4.1 (2017-03)






TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS);
Testing;
Conformance test specifications for
Cooperative Awareness Basic Service (CA);
Part 1: Test requirements and Protocol Implementation
Conformance Statement (PICS) pro forma

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Reference
RTS/ITS-00169
Keywords
ITS, PICS, testing
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Contents
Intellectual Property Rights . 4
Foreword . 4
Modal verbs terminology . 4
1 Scope . 5
2 References . 5
2.1 Normative references . 5
2.2 Informative references . 5
3 Definitions and abbreviations . 5
3.1 Definitions . 5
3.2 Abbreviations . 6
4 Conformance requirement concerning PICS . 6
Annex A (normative): CA PICS Pro forma . 7
A.1 Partial cancellation of copyright . 7
A.2 Guidance for completing the PICS pro forma . 7
A.2.1 Purposes and structure . 7
A.2.2 Abbreviations and conventions . 7
A.2.3 Instructions for completing the PICS pro forma. 9
A.3 Identification of the implementation . 9
A.3.1 Introduction . 9
A.3.2 Date of the statement . 9
A.3.3 Implementation Under Test (IUT) identification . 10
A.3.4 System Under Test (SUT) identification . 10
A.3.5 Product supplier . 10
A.3.6 Client (if different from product supplier) . 11
A.3.7 PICS contact person . 11
A.4 Identification of the protocol . 12
A.5 Global statement of conformance . 12
A.6 Tables . 12
History . 14

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Intellectual Property Rights
IPRs essential or potentially essential to the present document may have been declared to ETSI. The information
pertaining to these essential IPRs, if any, is publicly available for ETSI members and non-members, and can be found
in ETSI SR 000 314: "Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs); Essential, or potentially Essential, IPRs notified to ETSI in
respect of ETSI standards", which is available from the ETSI Secretariat. Latest updates are available on the ETSI Web
server (https://ipr.etsi.org/).
Pursuant to the ETSI IPR Policy, no investigation, including IPR searches, has been carried out by ETSI. No guarantee
can be given as to the existence of other IPRs not referenced in ETSI SR 000 314 (or the updates on the ETSI Web
server) which are, or may be, or may become, essential to the present document.
Foreword
This Technical Specification (TS) has been produced by ETSI Technical Committee Intelligent Transport
Systems (ITS).
The present document is part 1 of a multi-part deliverable covering Conformance test specifications for Cooperative
Awareness Basic Service (CA), as identified below:
Part 1: "Test requirements and Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement (PICS) pro forma";
Part 2: "Test Suite Structure and Test Purposes (TSS & TP)";
Part 3: "Abstract Test Suite (ATS) and Protocol Implementation eXtra Information for Testing (PIXIT)".
Modal verbs terminology
In the present document "shall", "shall not", "should", "should not", "may", "need not", "will", "will not", "can" and
"cannot" are to be interpreted as described in clause 3.2 of the ETSI Drafting Rules (Verbal forms for the expression of
provisions).
"must" and "must not" are NOT allowed in ETSI deliverables except when used in direct citation.
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1 Scope
The present document provides the Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement (PICS) pro forma for
Conformance test specification for Co-operative Awareness Basic Service (CA) as defined in ETSI EN 302 637-2 [1] in
compliance with the relevant requirements and in accordance with the relevant guidance given in ISO/IEC 9646-7 [i.2].
2 References
2.1 Normative references
References are either specific (identified by date of publication and/or edition number or version number) or
non-specific. For specific references, only the cited version applies. For non-specific references, the latest version of the
referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
Referenced documents which are not found to be publicly available in the expected location might be found at
http://docbox.etsi.org/Reference.
NOTE: While any hyperlinks included in this clause were valid at the time of publication, ETSI cannot guarantee
their long term validity.
The following referenced documents are necessary for the application of the present document.
[1] ETSI EN 302 637-2 (V1.3.2): "Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS); Vehicular Communications;
Basic Set of Applications; Part 2: Specification of Cooperative Awareness Basic Service".
2.2 Informative references
References are either specific (identified by date of publication and/or edition number or version number) or
non-specific. For specific references, only the cited version applies. For non-specific references, the latest version of the
referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
NOTE: While any hyperlinks included in this clause were valid at the time of publication, ETSI cannot guarantee
their long term validity.
The following referenced documents are not necessary for the application of the present document but they assist the
user with regard to a particular subject area.
[i.1] ISO/IEC 9646-1 (1994): "Information technology -- Open Systems Interconnection --
Conformance testing methodology and framework -- Part 1: General concepts".
[i.2] ISO/IEC 9646-7 (1995): "Information technology -- Open Systems Interconnection --
Conformance testing methodology and framework -- Part 7: Implementation Conformance
Statements".
3 Definitions and abbreviations
3.1 Definitions
For the purposes of the present document, the terms and definitions given in ETSI EN 302 637-2 [1],
ISO/IEC 9646-1 [i.1] and ISO/IEC 9646-7 [i.2] apply.
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3.2 Abbreviations
For the purposes of the present document, the following abbreviations apply:
ATS Abstract Test Suite
BTP Basic Transport Protocol
CAM Co-operative Awareness Messages
CAN Controller Area Network
DCC Decentralized Congestion Contro
PICS Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement
ITS Intelligent Transport Systems
ITS-S ITS-Station
IUT Implementation Under Test
LSB Least Significant Bit
PDU Protocol Data Unit
PICS Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement
SUT System Under Test
TP Test Purpose
TSS Test Suite Structure
4 Conformance requirement concerning PICS
If it claims to conform to the present document, the actual PICS pro forma to be filled in by a supplier shall be
technically equivalent to the text of the PICS pro forma given in annex A, and shall preserve the numbering, naming
and ordering of the pro forma items.
A PICS which conforms to the present document shall be a conforming PICS pro forma completed in accordance with
the instructions for completion given in clause A.2.
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Annex A (normative):
CA PICS Pro forma
A.1 Partial cancellation of copyright
Notwithstanding the provisions of the copyright clause related to the text of the present document, ETSI grants that
users of the present document may freely reproduce the Partial PIXIT pro forma in this annex so that it can be used for
its intended purposes and may further publish the completed Partial PIXIT.
A.2 Guidance for completing the PICS pro forma
A.2.1 Purposes and structure
The purpose of this PICS pro forma is to provide a mechanism whereby a supplier of an implementation of the
requirements defined in ETSI EN 302 637-2 (V1.3.2) [1] may provide information about the implementation in a
standardized manner.
The PICS pro forma is subdivided into clauses for the following categories of information:
• guidance for completing the PICS pro forma;
• identification of the implementation;
• identification of the ETSI EN 302 637-2 (V1.3.2) [1];
• global statement of conformance;
• PICS pro forma tables.
A.2.2 Abbreviations and conventions
The PICS pro forma contained in this annex is comprised of information in tabular form in accordance with the
guidelines presented in ISO/IEC 9646-7 [i.2].
Item column
The item column contains a number which identifies the item in the table.
Item description column
The item description column describes in free text each respective item (e.g. parameters, timers, etc.). It implicitly
means "is supported by the implementation?".
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Status column
The following notations, defined in ISO/IEC 9646-7 [i.2], are used for the status column:
m mandatory - the capability is
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