ETSI TR 102 745 V1.1.1 (2009-10)

ETSI TR 102 745 V1.1.1 (2009-10)
Technical Report


Reconfigurable Radio Systems (RRS);
User Requirements for Public Safety

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Contents
Intellectual Property Rights . 5
Foreword . 5
Introduction . 5
1 Scope . 6
2 References . 6
2.1 Normative references . 6
2.2 Informative references . 6
3 Definitions and abbreviations . 8
3.1 Definitions . 8
3.2 Abbreviations . 8
4 Relevant input from other organizations . 9
4.1 Organizations . 9
4.1.1 BAPCO (British Association of Public Safety Communication Officers) . 9
4.1.2 ECC . 9
4.1.3 ETSI EMTEL . 10
4.1.4 ETSI TETRA . 10
4.1.5 FRONTEX . 10
4.1.6 ITU. 11
4.1.7 NATO . 11
4.1.8 PSRG (Public Safety Radio communication Group) . 11
4.1.9 PSCE (Public Safety Communication Europe) . 11
4.1.10 SAFECOM . 12
4.1.11 SDR Forum . 12
4.1.12 TETRA Association . 13
4.2 Projects . 13
4.2.1 AAF Project (Adaptive Ad-hoc Freeband communication) . 13
4.2.2 Project CHORIST . 13
4.2.3 ESSOR . 14
4.2.4 Project MESA . 14
4.2.5 Project OASIS . 14
4.2.6 WIDENS . 15
4.2.7 WIN . 15
4.2.8 WINTSEC. 15
4.2.9 WISECOM . 16
4.3 Others . 16
4.3.1 GMDSS . 16
4.3.2 Search & Rescue . 16
5 Input from the other TC RRS working groups . 16
6 Public Safety Domains and Roles . 17
6.1 Public Safety Domains . 17
6.2 Public Safety Roles . 17
6.2.1 Public Safety functions . 18
6.2.1.1 Every day operations for Law Enforcement . 18
6.2.1.2 Emergency Medical and Health Services . 18
6.2.1.3 Border Security . 19
6.2.1.4 Protection of the environment . 19
6.2.1.5 Fire-fighting . 19
6.2.1.6 Search & Rescue . 19
6.2.1.7 Crisis Management. 19
6.2.2 Applications . 20
6.2.3 Public Safety organizations . 21
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7 Public Safety Use Cases and Operational Scenarios . 23
7.1 Introduction . 23
7.2 Operational Scenarios . 24
7.2.1 Routine Operations . 24
7.2.2 Emergency Crisis . 24
7.2.3 Major Events . 24
7.2.4 Natural disaster . 25
7.2.5 Search & Rescue . 25
7.3 Mapping of operational scenarios along dimension criteria . 26
7.4 Mapping among Public Safety organizations and operational scenarios . 26
8 Benefits of the application of RRS to the Public Safety domain. 27
9 Requirements Areas . 30
9.1 Interoperability . 30
9.2 Spectrum Usage . 32
9.3 Security . 33
9.4 Resilience . 34
9.5 Scalability . 34
9.6 Resource Management . 35
9.7 Operational support and Usability . 36
9.8 Mapping of requirements areas against operational scenarios . 36
9.9 Parameters/metrics for requirements evaluation and prioritization . 37
Annex A: Questionnaire to Public Safety users . 38
A.1 Questionnaire format . 38
A.2 Questionnaire results . 41
History . 46

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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
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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 Report (TR) has been produced by ETSI Technical Committee Reconfigurable Radio Systems (RRS).
Introduction
The present document provides an overview of the User Requirements for the application of RRS in the Public Safety
and Defense domain.
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1 Scope
The present document describes needs, applications and drivers for the application of RRS to the public safety.
2 References
References are either specific (identified by date of publication and/or edition number or version number) or
non-specific.
• For a specific reference, subsequent revisions do not apply.
• Non-specific reference may be made only to a complete document or a part thereof and only in the following
cases:
- if it is accepted that it will be possible to use all future changes of the referenced document for the
purposes of the referring document;
- for informative references.
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.
2.1 Normative references
The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of the present document. For dated
references, only the edition cited applies. For non-specific references, the latest edition of the referenced document
(including any amendments) applies.
Not applicable.
2.2 Informative references
The following referenced documents are not essential to the use of the present document but they assist the user with
regard to a particular subject area. For non-specific references, the latest version of the referenced document (including
any amendments) applies.
[i.1] ETSI TS 102 181: "Emergency Communications (EMTEL); Requirements for communication
between authorities/organizations during emergencies".
[i.2] SDR Forum: "Use Cases for Cognitive Applications in Public Safety Communications Systems -
Volume 1: Review of the 7 July Bombing of the London Underground".
NOTE: Available at: http://www.sdrforum.org/pages/documentLibrary/documents/SDRF-07-P-0019-V1_0_0.pdf
[i.3] ETSI TS 170 001 (V3.3.1): "Project MESA; Service Specification Group - Services and
Applications; Statement of Requirements (SoR)".
[i.4] SAFECOM, US communications program of the Department of Homeland Security. "Public
safety Statements of Requirements for communications and interoperability v I and II".
[i.5] ETSI TR 102 182: "Emergency Communications (EMTEL); Requirements for communications
from authorities/organisations to the citizens during emergencies".
[i.6] ETSI TR 102 180: "Basis of requirements for communication of individuals with
authorities/organizations in case of distress (Emergency call handling)".
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[i.7] ETSI TR 102 410: "Emergency Communications (EMTEL); Basis of requirements for
communications between individuals and between individuals and authorities whilst emergencies
are in progress".
[i.8] ETSI TR 102 021: "Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA); User Requirement Specification TETRA
Release 2".
[i.9] ITU-R Recommendation BO.1774: "Use of satellite and terrestrial broadcast infrastructures for
public warning, disaster mitigation and relief".
[i.10] ITU-R Recommendation S.1001: "Use of systems in the fixed-satellite service in the event of
natural disasters and similar emergencies for warning and relief operations".
[i.11] ETSI TR 170 003: "Project MESA; Service Specification Group - Services and Applications;
Basic requirements".
[i.12] ETSI TR 102 682: "Reconfigurable Radio Systems (RRS); Functional Architecture (FA) for the
Management and Control of Reconfigurable Radio Systems".
[i.13] ETSI TS 102 734: "Electronic Signatures and Infrastructures; Profiles of CMS Advanced
Electronic Signatures based on TS 101 733 (CAdES)".
[i.14] ETSI TR 102 733: "Reconfigurable Radio Systems (RRS); System Aspects for Public Safety".
[i.15] ITU-R Report M. 2033: "Radiocommunication objectives and requirements for public protection
and disaster relief".
[i.16] ECC REPORT 102. Public protection and disaster relief spectrum requirements, Helsinki, January
2007.
[i.17] SeBoCom Pre-Study - A preliminary study on Secure Border Communications. European
Commission Technical Report - EUR 23536 EN.
[i.18] World Radiocommunication Conference in 2003, resolution 646: "Public protection and disaster
relief".
[i.19] SDR Forum: "Use Cases for Cognitive Applications in Public Safety Communications Systems" -
Volume 1: Review of the 7 July Bombing of the London Underground.
[i.20] SDR Forum: "Utilization of Software Defined Radio Technology for the 700 MHz Public/Private
Partnership".
[i.21] SDR Forum: "High Level SDR Security Requirements".
[i.22] CHORIST Project: "Report on user requirements and initial support cases".
[i.23] CHORIST Project: "Report on user needs and interoperability requirements".
[i.24] OASIS Project: "Definition of the OASIS Tactical Situation Object (D-TA2_06).
[i.25] OASIS Project: "OASIS User Requirements synthesis (D-TA2_01).
[i.26] WIDENS Project: "Users Requirements and First System Architecture Design (D2.1)".
[i.27] WIN Project: "User Requirements Specifications".
[i.28] WISECOM Project: "Survey of Use Cases. Deliverable 1.1-1".
[i.29] WISECOM Project: "User and System Requirements for Emergency Telecommunication Services.
Deliverable 1.2-1".
[i.30] TETRA RELEASE 2: "User Requirement Specifications. URS 101-021-1 General Overview User
Requirement Specification (URS) and URS 101-021-2 High Speed Data (HSD)".
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3 Definitions and abbreviations
3.1 Definitions
For the purposes of the present document, the following terms and definitions apply:
cognitive radio: radio, which has the following capabilities:
• to obtain the knowledge of radio operational environment and established policies and to monitor usage
patterns and users' needs;
• to dynamically and autonomously adjust its operational parameters and protocols according to this knowledge;
• in order to achieve predefined objectives, e.g. more efficient utilization of spectrum; and to learn from the
results of its actions in order to further improve its performance.
Cognitive Radio System (CR): radio system, which has the following capabilities:
• to obtain the knowledge of radio operational environment and established policies and to monitor usage
patterns and users' needs;
• to dynamically and autonomously adjust its operational parameters and protocols according to this knowledge
in order to achieve predefined objectives, e.g. more efficient utilization of spectrum; and
• to learn from the results of its actions in order to further improve its performance.
NOTE 1: Radio operational environment encompasses radio and geographical environments, and internal states of
the Cognitive Radio System.
NOTE 2: To obtain knowledge encompasses, for instance, by sensing the spectrum, by using knowledge data base,
by user collaboration, or by broadcasting and receiving of control information.
NOTE 3: Cognitive Radio System comprises a set of entities able to communicate with each other
(e.g. network and terminal entities and management entities).
NOTE 4: Radio system is typically designed to use certain radio frequency band(s) and it includes agreed schemes
for multiple access, modulation, channel and data coding as well as control protocols for all radio layers
needed to maintain user data links between adjacent radio devices.
public safety organization: organization responsible for the prevention and protection from events that could endanger
the safety of the general public
NOTE: Such events could be natural or man-made. Example of Public Safety organizations are police, fire-
fighters and others.
radio technology: technology for wireless transmission and/or reception of electromagnetic radiation for information
transfer
3.2 Abbreviations
For the purposes of the present document, the following abbreviations apply:
AAF Adaptive Ad-hoc Freeband
BAPCO British Association of Public Safety Communications Officers
BER Bit Error Rate
CEPT Conférence des Administrations Européenes des Postes et Télécommunications
COI Community of Interest
ECC Electronic Communication Committee of the CEPT
EVM Error Vector Magnitude
FA Functional Architecture
GMDSS Global Maritime Distress Safety System
PMR Private Mobile Radio, Professional Mobile Radio
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PPDR Public Protection and Disaster Relief
PSRG Public Safety Radiocommunications Group
RAT Radio Access Technology
RRS Reconfigurable Radio Systems
SDR Software Defined Radio
TETRA TErrestrial Trunked RAdio
USR User Requirement Specification
4 Relevant input from other organizations
This clause provides the list of input documents and information sources, which are relevant to the present document.
The list includes deliverables and other documentation produced by organizations or projects.
NOTE: As described in clause 1, the scope of the present document is to define the User Requirements for the
application of RRS in the Public Safety and Defense domain. The scope is not to define a new radio
system for Public Safety.
This means that some of the listed references will not be a direct input to the present document, even if they may still
provide useful information.
Furthermore existing Public Safety standards already satisfy many Public Safety requirements, which are automatically
supported by the RRS through the related waveforms.
4.1 Organizations
4.1.1 BAPCO (British Association of Public Safety Communication
Officers)
BAPCO is an independent, user led, professional members Association to promote, influence and advance the
development and use of communications and information management systems for the safety and security of the public.
One of the objectives of BAPCO is to promote the development of efficient and effective communications and
supporting information technologies to provide value for money and effective systems to enhance delivery of public
safety and civil contingency services for the benefit of the public and for the benefit of individual public safety and civil
contingency services and personnel.
4.1.2 ECC
The Electronic Communications Committee (ECC) is part of the CEPT (European Conference of Postal and
Telecommunications Administrations).
ECC is responsible for:
1) considering and developing policies on electronic communications and activities in a European context, taking
account of European and international legislation and regulations;
2) develop European common positions and proposals, as appropriate, for use in the framework of international
and regional bodies;
3) forward plan and harmonize within Europe the efficient use of the radio spectrum, satellite orbits and
numbering resources, so as to satisfy the requirements of users and industry;
4) take decisions on the management of the work of the ECC.
The following documents are relevant for system and technology aspects, especially in relation to spectrum usage by
the public safety domain:
• ECC REPORT 102. Public protection and disaster relief spectrum requirements, Helsinki, January 2007 [i.16],
clause 7 presents the operational requirements for public safety radio communication.
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4.1.3 ETSI EMTEL
ETSI Special Committee EMTEL is responsible for identifying the operational and technical requirements of those
involved in the provision of emergency communications, for conveying these requirements to other ETSI committees
and for liaison with other organizations involved in this field.
The activities of TC EMTEL will follow the broad areas of:
• preparation of ETSI deliverables used to describe requirements for Users, Network Architectures, Network
Resilience, Contingency planning, Priority Communications, Priority Access Technologies (e.g. Twisted Pair,
Cable/ HFC, Satellite, Radio Frequencies/ fixed and mobile, new solutions) and Network management;
• studies of the issues related to National Security and Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR);
The following documents are relevant for requirements definition:
• Requirements for communication of citizens with authorities/organizations in case of distress (emergency call
handling), see TR 102 180 [i.6].
• Emergency Communications (EMTEL); Requirements for communication between authorities/organizations
during emergencies, see TS 102 181 [i.1].
• Emergency Communications (EMTEL); Requirements for communications from authorities/organizations to
individuals, groups or the general public during emergencies, see TR 102 182 [i.5].
• Communications between individuals and between individuals and authorities during emergencies,
see TR 102 410 [i.7].
4.1.4 ETSI TETRA
TErrestrial Trunked RAdio (TETRA) is a digital trunked mobile radio standard developed to meet the needs of
traditional Professional Mobile Radio (PMR) user organizations such as:
• Public Safety
• Transportation
• Utilities
• Government
• Military
• PAMR
• Commercial & Industry
• Oil & Gas
The following documents are relevant for requirements definition:
• User Requirement Specification TETRA Release 2. See TR 102 021 [i.8].
• Technical Reports from TETRA Working Group 1, which is responsible for producing the User Requirement
Specification (URS) for development and enhancement of TETRA.
4.1.5 FRONTEX
Frontex, the EU agency based in Warsaw, was created as a specialized and independent body tasked to coordinate the
operational cooperation between Member States in the field of border security.
A number of joint operations (Sea, Land and Air) have been organized by FRONTEX at European level, which can
provide useful input for the requirements definition.
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FRONTEX has also organized a number of workshops, where representatives from Publi
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