international radio communications - how to develop an interoperability framework? enlightening the...

International radio communications

-How to develop an

interoperability framework?Enlightening the ISITEP project for a better contribution

LEWP/RCEG, Dublin 11-04-20132

11-04-2013 LEWP/RCEG/ISI 2

Introduction (1/2)

• ISITEP is an R&D European project (FP 7) intending to implement – technically and operationally – a pre-prototype set of roaming interfaces (ISI) between and inside the 4 types of existing nationwide digital radio communication networks in EU

• ISITEP Budget and time schedule– FP7 Large scale integrating project – Proposed budget: around 10M€ contribution, 14M€ total cost– Call of proposal publication: 20-07-2011– First meeting of the ISITEP consortium: 26-07-2012

ISITEP leader: the SELEX ES company– Deadline for the application file: 23-11-2011– Hearing by the European Research Executive Agency (REA): 17-02-2012– Evaluation Summary Report: 06-03-2012

REA gave 14/15 to ISITEP project. ISITEP won the call– Negotiations REA – ISITEP: started on 16-07-2012– New version of the Description of Work (DOW): 28-03-2013– Grant Agreement (contract REA - ISITEP): June 2013 ?– Project duration: 3 years, 2013 ? -> 2016 ?– Kick-off meeting: 2013, in Brussels ?– Operational testing in 2015 - 2016: No-Se, De-Nl-Be, Fr-Ch, Es-Pt, Brussels ?– Commercial ISI solutions from 2017 ?

ISITEP


• Next to the industry and universities, some countries are directly involved in the ISITEP consortium (No, Se, Nl, Be), and some participate in the ISITEP “advisory board” (De, Fr, Ch, Sp, Bg, El)

• Anyway, each LEWP Comix country will be:– kept in touch with the project, via the LEWP/RCEG meetings– invited to give advices about the ISITEP work in progress– invited to share information about their own situation/plans/

wishes regarding the cross-border radio communications (operational procedures, technical and legal issues)See the last LEWP/RCEG report 8097/12 of 14-11-2012, under Cyprus EU presidency

• The goal of this presentation is to enlighten the notion of “interoperability framework” (IFW), thanks to a simple case study (current interim radio communication solution Fr-Be), in order to encourage all the LEWP/RCEG members to take part in the IFW to be defined within the ISITEP project

Introduction (2/2)


1. Need for interoperability• Each nationwide radio

network for Public Safety Services (PPDR) is separated from each other

• 2 technologies:

• 3 companies have developed nationwide networks in EU:


2. Interoperability framework (IFW)

• EU FP7-Security states that interoperabilityis not only a technical issue

• “Full interoperability rangesfrom organisational to technical aspects all of which must be harmonised”

• Remark: the “communication interoperability” involves the possibility to make group calls, with its own terminal, on both home or foreign networks, with terminals of both home and foreign networksInteroperability empowers much more than networks interconnections

Technical aspects

Communication Interoperability

Service Interoperability

Procedures Interoperability

National Legal Framework

Multilateral Agreements

Interoperability Layers

European Treaties, Decisions, … (Treaty of Schengen, Treaty of Lisbon)

Legal Aspects


3. Current IFW between Fr-Be polices (1/2)

• Communication Interoperability– Basic, multi-B2B, gateways (network interconnection only)

• Service Interoperability– None (only voice, French used as common language)

• Procedures Interoperability, what ISITEP names the “Mission Oriented Framework/Structure” (see ISITEP DOW, SP 3)

• Include technical, organisational and legal aspects• Practically, all the following aspects have been discussed during ad-hoc

meetings between all the Fr-Be border control rooms, the PCCCs (2), some representatives of the related territorial police divisions, and the related ICT radio services

• Neither industry nor network operators support needed (users driven project) – Standard framework model (i.e. definition of the missions and the

information fluxes…)• Communications between control rooms

– Permanent info flux needed, to face unexpected cross-border incidents (armed robbery…) or to share any real time useful police information (traffic jam…)

• Communications between control rooms and units on the field– Temporary info fluxes needed in case of:

» a common operationE.g. cross-border control of “mega dance halls” lying in the same border zone (each police unit remaining on its own national territory)

» an event/incidentE.g. common police patrols during cycle races (mixed police units, only possible in overlapping radio coverage zones)

– Permanent info flux needed in some limited cross-border regions» E.g. routine incidents management in cross-border towns














Belgium

3. Current IFW between Fr-Be polices (2/2)• Procedures Interoperability = “Mission Oriented

Framework” (to be continued)– Standard framework model (definition of the missions and the

information fluxes…)– Functional Model (i.e. fleetmap, rules for using talkgroups…)

• Communications between control rooms– Creation of specific international coordination talkgroups, always audio

monitored, reserved for the police control rooms on both sides of a well defined border segment

» 1 coordination talkgroup (= 1 gateway implemented) per border segment, 2 segments (“zone Nord” and “zone Est”), not programmed in the terminals on the field

• Communications between control rooms and units on the field– No specific talkgroups created for the temporary needs

» 1 gateway per French border “département” is implemented to combine temporally 1 Belgian existing talkgroup with 1 French existing talkgroup

– Specific international talkgroups are to be created for the local continuous needs and programmed in the terminals on the field

» no official request until now– Common procedures in operation (i.e. tactical radio users

procedures)• E.g. all the calls between the control rooms start with the vocal

code “Message transfrontalier”, then comes the call signs and info exchange

• National Legal Framework– No extra national regulations is needed (everybody uses its own

net)• Multilateral Agreement

– General bi-national treaty of police cooperation: “Accord de Tournai”

– Specific conventions for radio issues, between the control rooms and the PCCC of a same border segment (2)

• European treaty: Schengen Agreement


4. ISITEP Interoperability framework

SP 3

SP 6

SP 4SP 5

SP 2Users technical-

operational requirements

• The operational capability of ISITEP relies on the roaming implementation = possibility to select, on its own terminal, common international talkgroups covering several countries

• This allows a lot of extra operational possibilities, but, on the other hand, involves a much more complex IFW


5. First collaboration from the LEWP/RCEG members

• Waiting for the official ISITEP quick-off, the chairman of the ISI subgroup (in his role as ISITEP consortium member) kindly asks to each RCEG member to give the details of:– a radio procedure specialist (e.g. a fleetmap expert) – a specialist in international relations

• Moreover, a first question is put to both of them:– For the radio specialist:

• Has your country implemented radio gateways (network interconnections) with other ones?

• If yes, with which countries, and on behalf of which PPDR organisation (police, customs, fire brigade, health department…)?

– For the specialist in international relations:• Are there bi- or multi-national agreements (outside the European and

the more local ones) regulating the general PPDR cooperation between your countries and other ones?

• If yes, with which countries, and on behalf of which PPDR organisation?• This first request for collaboration will be confirmed by mail, in a

couple of weeks, to the attendees and to the LEWP members (Comix)• Question for the EU presidency: in order to make the soon increasing

information exchange easier within the RCEG, would it be possible to ask the LEWP chairman to start the process for drawing up a list of the LEWP/RCEG members?

international radio communications - how to develop an interoperability framework? enlightening the...

Documents

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isitep work

isitep consortium

isitep project introduction

isitep leader

eu isitep budget

interoperability ranges

negotiations rea isitep