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Way Forward GSM-R Conference
UIC 10-11 Sept 2013
Ola BERGMAN Head of GSM-R Standardisation
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Agenda
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Why GSM-R?
Why consider a Next Generation System?
Fundamental Assumptions!
Safeguarding GSM-R Investments!
What’s going on in 3GPP?
What’s going on in EU (METIS, 5G or beyond 2020) ?
Today’s activities towards Future System !
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Why GSM-R?
• Radio communications for train operation since the 50´s – many well
functioning but incompatible and old fashioned systems
• Under UIC leadership a modern and compatible system was specified
during the 90’s – GSM-R…
• …and has been refined over the years since then
2011-2012
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Why GSM-R?
• Radio communications for train operation since the 50´s – many well
functioning but incompatible and old fashioned systems
• Under UIC leadership a modern and compatible system was specified
during the 90’s – GSM-R…
• …and has been refined over the years since then
• GSM-R has proven to be “almost” optimal and utmost reliable for both
Railway Voice Communications and ETCS data transfer
• GSM-R is Multivendor
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Why GSM-R?
• Radio communications for train operation since the 50´s – many well
functioning but incompatible and old fashioned systems
• Under UIC leadership a modern and compatible system was specified
during the 90’s – GSM-R…
• …and has been refined over the years since then
• GSM-R has proven to be “almost” optimal and utmost reliable for both
Railway Voice Communications and ETCS data transfer
• GSM-R is Multivendor
• GSM-R has a very large footprint – in Europe and internationally
• GSM-R is a true success story!
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Why consider a Next Generation System?
• GSM was specified in the 80’s …
• …so soon reaching the mature age of 25 very well established…
• …but not delivering the data capacity required for public users today…
• …and not using spectrum efficiently!
• Therefore GSM will inevitably be phased out…and GSM-R will
follow…later!
• To be prepared for the future it is anyway a well invested effort to seriously
assess the different alternatives for a “Next Generation System”
• If we move at the GSM-R speed it will take some 10 years from now for
studies, specifications, prototyping and testing
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4G - LTE, LTE-A, … , 5G,…
GSM-R
NG
2G – GSM, GPRS, EDGE
Pilot, IOT
NG Specifications
UIC, ERA, GSM-R IG, UNISIG, 3GPP
R&D
Why consider a Next Generation System?
~10 years
~10 years
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Fundamental Assumptions (1)
• Today’s GSM-R functionality as specified in EIRENE… • Functional Addressing
• Location Dependent Addressing
• Group Calls (Railway Emergency Call, All Drivers in the Area, …)
• Carrying Safety Critical data of ETCS levels 2 and 3
• …
• …must be supported one-to-one by the NG system, since • during a migration period lasting several years…
• …both systems will be in simultaneous service!
• a train driver moving from a GSM-R area to a NG area or vice versa
shall not have to behave differently depending on location…
• …but (at most) benefit from additional supporting services in NG
areas!
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Fundamental Assumptions (2)
• Additional new data services utilising the capacity of
modern technology will however be part of NG, e.g. • to transfer any relevant train data for maintenance and other purposes
to ground
• to support energy efficient (green) train driving
• to transfer recordings of on board supervision cameras to ground
• to transfer detailed travel information to passengers
• to support conductors with info and ticket sales
• to transfer safety supporting images to train drivers (level crossings…)
• …
• Surplus capacity could possibly even be leased by
Public Mobile Operators to provide “regular”, high
quality Mobile Services to Passengers – hereby
improving their Travel Experience
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Fundamental Assumptions (3)
• NG will be a Cellular Mobile Network (just like GSM-R) • with radio base stations (cells) along the railway lines, in stations,
shunting yards
• possibly supported by satellite based services for special needs
• NG will be an “application” on top of a regular Mobile
Service (even more than GSM-R) • based on 3GPP services tailored for a much larger user community
than only Railways
• a variant of Mobile Professional Radio used by (in particular) Public
Safety (police, fire brigades, …) and others (private and public users)
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Fundamental Assumptions (4)
• NG will be owned and operated by Railways • public networks will presumably not guarantee the required 7d/24h availability
• public networks are subject to continuous change (feature content, radio
design, capacity enhancements,…) which harmonises poorly with NSA’s
authorisation to operate
• NG will possibly reuse existing ER-GSM frequencies (4+3
MHz) • sharing spectrum with GSM-R during migration
• however subject to technical clarification – and there are other possibilities
E-GSM
Downlink Uplink
GSM E-GSM GSM
Public Users Public Users
Railways Railways
960 918 915 873 880 925
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Fundamental Assumptions (4)
• NG will be owned and operated by Railways • public networks will presumably not guarantee the required 7d/24h availability
• public networks are subject to continuous change (feature content, radio
design, capacity enhancements,…) which harmonises poorly with NSA’s
authorisation to operate
• NG will possibly reuse existing ER-GSM frequencies (4+3
MHz) • sharing spectrum with GSM-R during migration
• however subject to technical clarification – and there are other possibilities
• Whatever the frequency allocation may be, imperative that focused
efforts are invested in concerned international and European bodies to
ensure that sufficient spectrum is granted
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Safeguarding GSM-R Investments! (1)
• Onboard Cab radio will be maintained, only upgraded • Driver’s Interface will remain unchanged
• Additional radio module supporting the new technology
• Possibly also new roof top antenna and cabling
• …
• Major parts of track side GSM-R network will be maintained • Base Station civil works, towers
• Base Station transmission infrastructure
• Core system civil works, sites
• Most of Network Management , e.g. KPI supervision
• …
• Fixed Dispatcher Network will be maintained, only upgraded • Human Machine Interface will remain unchanged in general…
• …slight additions in the menu navigation supporting the new radio technology
• Very limited effort for training of operator staff
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Safeguarding GSM-R Investments! (2)
• Railway staff already very experienced operating a Mobile
Network
• In total a very substantial part of the GSM-R investment
will be reused!
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What’s going on in 3GPP? (1)
Group Call functionality of today’s GSM-R
• …was specified as a “railway add on” by ETSI/3GPP in the 90’s
• It is an additional functionality requiring a major R&D effort in the basic
equipment design…
• …and it is a rather costly task to implement in infrastructure and radio
terminals (Cab etc)
• There are comparatively few users – only railways…
• …since “all” other users of professional mobile radio have opted for
TETRA or APCO 25 or some further similar systems
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What’s going on in 3GPP? (2)
Group Call functionality of tomorrow’s NG
• Group call functionality currently at 3GPP work is…
• … Group Call System Enablers GCSE
• This standardisation is driven by users and suppliers of Public and
Professional Mobile Radio aiming at one common efficient and truly
user friendly solution…
• …so will have many users - over time entire public safety sector ?
• …a much larger market and much improved economy of scale for
group calls
• Planned for inclusion in 3GPP Release 12
GCSE is an interesting candidate for NG
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What’s going on in EU (METIS, 5G or
beyond 2020)?
• Aiming at an ultra high capacity mobile radio system “beyond
2020”…
• …the European Commission is spending 50 M€ on the project
METIS!
• Among 5 Mobile Operators, 5 Mobile Vendors, 13 Academic
Organisations…
• …there is (only) one Consortium member representing the interests
of Transport, namely BMW…
• METIS stands for “Mobile and wireless communications Enablers for the Twenty-
twenty Information Society”
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Today’s activities towards Future System
• GSM-R Core architecture Rel 4 is introduced
• Stepwise introduction of IP …
• …now available on several interfaces interconnecting GSM-R
subsystems, e.g. Train Controller system
• ETCS over GPRS (that is over Packet Switching PS) is a
stepping stone for…
• …much better utilisation of radio resources
• …making ETCS bearer independent
• ER-GSM, enhancement of the European UIC Frequency
Band for GSM-R by 3MHz, i.e. 75%
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Thank you!
the Future of Rail
Communication –
a Joint Enterprise