Presentation By A K Singh ADG(IM&Estt) NTIPRIT, Ghaziabad Objectives What is PMRTS
Need of PMRTS
Trunked radio System
Comparison between mobile and PMRTS
Features
Different types of PMRTS
TETRA
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Public Mobile Radio Trunking Service The communication services have been recognized the world-over as an important tool for socio- economic development for a nation and hence various means of communication infrastructure – landline, mobile phones or the PMRTS, are treated as a crucial factors to realize the socio-economic objectives. Public Mobile Radio Trunking Service (PMRTS) is an easy to use two-way radio communication, mainly used for command and control and group talking while on the move.
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Mainly this application is useful in the areas of: Services - Courier, Ambulance, Taxi services, Transportation, Tourism - Hotel chains, Tourist operation, Business - Large industrial establishment, Construction companies. Government - Disaster relief, Traffic control Security - Police, Security Agencies, Fire brigades.
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Features Single touch call initiation / instantaneous access Cost effective mobile communication among members of the user group Coverage of 60 kilometers Two way voice communication Group Talking feature Message broadcasting Wide choice of radios - Hand held, Vehicle mounted, Fixed radios. Pilfer proof hand sets Secured communication Dynamic regrouping. Flexible tariff. Detailed billing
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The Public Mobile Radio Trunking Service Providers (PMRTSP) are permitted to provide mobile radio trunking services within their service area of operation. The PMRTSP are granted license, on a non-exclusive basis, for each service area of operation for an initial period of twenty years and will be extended by additional periods of ten years thereafter. For this purpose, the service areas would be categorized as per the existing structure. The PMRTSP are eligible to obtain licences for any number of service areas.
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key parameters for making a right choice of PMRTS operator Coverage: Look for the number of live systems/base stations the operator has in place. The location of the operator's base station is also important, since coverage depends a lot on the location and height of the tower/mast. Operator's hold in the country: This will play a crucial role once PSTN interconnectivity is allowed. User can get the facility of wide area roaming in cities where the operator has its presence with telephone interconnect. Handset cost: Since the service charges are fairly consistent among all operators, the subsidy being offered by the operator on the handset as the radios are not available in the general market. Security: For organizations where security is the prime concern and who have a requirement of more handsets, captive system is the way to go. If corporate have a small requirement it would be ideal to hook on to the PMRTS systems operating in their locations and go live right away. Requirement analysis: This has to be meticulous in terms of the area to be covered, number of portable handsets and mobile units to be purchased, etc. The choice of handset will depend on three parameters—features, requirement and cost. As for the infrastructure equipment requirement, a private system can support 60 handsets per channel on the digital front and 90 on the analog front. Tuesday, May 12, 2020 NTIPRIT, Ghaziabad 7 Types of PMRTS
FDMA- APCO25, tetrapol, EDACS
TDMA- TETRA, DIMRS, IDRA, iDEN FHMA
Open standards and proprietary technology
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Types of trunked radio systems TETRA OpenSky System APCO Project 16 APCO Project 25 SmarTrunk TETRAPOL dPMR Mode 3 DMR Tier III NXDN – Kenwood NEXEDGE Digital trunked radio – Icom IDAS Digital trunked Land Mobile Radio – MultiTrunk.NET, IDAS Digital trunked Land Mobil Radio systems, dealer locations
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Types of trunked radio systems Ericsson GE – EDACS Provoice – EDACS – GE Mark V Hytera – Hytera DMR Tier 3 Trunking Pro – Hytera DMR Tier 3 Trunking Lite – ACCESSNET-T IP TETRA trunking system Logic Trunked Radio – LTR Standard – LTR Passport – LTR Standard and Passpot – LTR MultiNet – LTR-Net
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Motorola – Type I – Type II – Type IIi Hybrid – Type II SmartZone – Type II SmartZone OmniLink – iDEN (integrated Digital Enhanced Network) – Motorola Capacity Plus – Motorola Connect Plus – Motorola Harmony (see iDEN) Tait – TN9300 DMR Tier 3 system – TN9400 P25 system – TN1/2/3/5100 MPT1327 System MPT-1327
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TETRA
A trunked radio system is a complex type of computer-controlled
two-way radio system that allows sharing of relatively few radio frequency channels among a large group of users. Instead of assigning, for example, a radio channel to one particular organization at a time, users are instead assigned to a logical grouping, a "talkgroup". When any user in that group wishes to converse with another user in the talkgroup, a vacant radio channel is found automatically by the system and the conversation takes place on that channel. Many unrelated conversations can occur on a channel, making use of the otherwise idle time between conversations. Each radio transceiver contains a microcomputer to control it. A control channel coordinates all the activity of the radios in the system. The control channel computer sends packets of data to enable one talkgroup to talk together, regardless of frequency.
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The primary purpose of this type of system is efficiency; many people can carry many conversations over only a few distinct frequencies. Trunking is used by many government entities to provide two-way communication for fire department, police and other municipal services, who all share spectrum allocated to a city, county, or other entity.
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Control channels In essence, a trunked radio system is a packet switching computer network. Users' radios send data packets to a computer, operating on a dedicated frequency — called a Control Channel — to request communication on a specific talk-group. The controller sends a digital signal to all radios monitoring that talkgroup, instructing the radios to automatically switch to the frequency indicated by the system to monitor the transmission. After the user is done speaking, the users' radios return to monitoring the control channel for additional transmissions. This arrangement allows multiple groups of users to share a small set of actual radio frequencies without hearing each other's conversations. Trunked systems primarily conserve limited radio frequencies and also provide other advanced features to users.
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Talkgroups A talkgroup is an assigned group on a trunked radio system. Unlike a conventional radio which assigns users a certain frequency, a trunk system takes a number of frequencies allocated to the system. Then the control channel coordinates the system so talkgroups can share these frequencies seamlessly. The purpose is to dramatically increase bandwidth. Many radios today treat talkgroups as if they were frequencies, since they behave like such. For example, on a radio scanner it is very common to be able to assign talkgroups into banks or lock them out, exactly like that of conventional frequencies. Tuesday, May 12, 2020 NTIPRIT, Ghaziabad 15 Fleet maps and IDs
In some agencies, groups are assigned in a fleet map.
This was implemented to make it easier to assign group ID numbers. For example, EMS would be on a separate 'fleet' than police. In those fleets are subfleets or the actual talkgroups. This system is not as common as the typical trunking method, but they do exist. In some communities the ID corresponds to a location or agency. For example, it is common to see a '1' or '2' in front of a police group and another number in front of a fire group.
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TETRA
TETRA is an open standard developed by the European
Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). The main purpose of the TETRA standard was to define a series of open interfaces, as well as services and facilities, in sufficient detail to enable independent manufacturers to develop infrastructure and terminal products that would fully interoperate with each other as well as meet the needs of traditional PMR user organizations.
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There is no doubt that a proprietary technology solution can be brought to market in less time than a solution conforming to a recognised open standard. However, large user organisations, especially those in the public sector, have recognised that some proprietary solutions can meet their needs but the 'tie in' to a single supplier can have significant disadvantages.
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Main advantages and benefits of adopting an open standard are: Economies of scale provided by a large harmonised market served by several independent manufacturers and suppliers competing for the same business resulting in competitively priced solutions Second source security if existing suppliers exit the market Evolution (instead of revolution) of the technology standard ensuring longevity and good return on investment for both users and suppliers Choice of manufacturers for new products keeping prices down Greater choice of products for specialised applications Greater responsiveness to future needs by existing suppliers because of competition Tuesday, May 12, 2020 NTIPRIT, Ghaziabad 19 planned evolution of TETRA can be appreciated when considering that traditional PMR user organisations will always require private PMR networks because public networks cannot adequately provide the required RF coverage, Grade of Service (GoS) during busy periods and high levels of reliability. Besides these basic needs, public networks will not be able to provide the specialised voice services such as wide area fast call-set up all informed nets (group calls), Direct Mode Operation (DMO) and high levels of secure encryption for voice and data. Tuesday, May 12, 2020 NTIPRIT, Ghaziabad 20 TETRA Standard Interfaces
services and facilities available on TETRA are also standardised. The most significant of these being: Advanced and fast group call services - clear and encrypted Individual calls - clear and encrypted Short Data Services - clear and encrypted Packet Data Services - clear and encrypted
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V+D Services Voice Services Group Call (commonly called 'all informed net' and 'talk group call') Pre-Emptive Priority Call (Emergency Call) Call Retention Priority Call Dynamic Group Number Assignment (DGNA) Ambience Listening Call Authorised by Dispatcher Area Selection Late Entry Data Services Short Data Service Packet Data Tuesday, May 12, 2020 NTIPRIT, Ghaziabad 24 Group Call This is probably the most basic voice service in TETRA but yet the most complex to support effectively and efficiently. This is because group calls need to: Use simple "Push To Talk" operation to provide fast call set-up group communications Be operated and managed in particular ways to optimise network loading Operate on a "preferred" site for optimum network loading Have a defined of operation (Area selection) Have a very reliable call-set up signalling protocol to ensure all users in a group are connected together when a call is first initiated (call acknowledgment signalling is impractical for group calls) Have priority mechanisms to ensure that specified users in a wide area group call (spanning multiple base station sites) are connected together when a network is busy Tuesday, May 12, 2020 NTIPRIT, Ghaziabad 25 Pre-emptive Priority Call This call service, of which the highest priority is the emergency call, provides the highest uplink priority and highest priority access to network resources. If a network is busy, the lowest priority communication is dropped to handle the emergency call. Unlike 911, 112 or 999 initiated public network emergency calls (which can also be supported on TETRA) the TETRA emergency call can be initiated by using a dedicated switch located on the terminal. Activating the emergency call automatically alerts the affiliated control room dispatcher and other terminal users in that persons talk group.
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Call Retention
This service protects selected radio terminal users from
being forced off the network as a result of pre-emptive calls (emergency calls) during busy periods. When emergency calls are supported in a network, it is essential that only a small number of radio terminal users are provided with this facility as the objective of retaining important calls during busy periods could be lost.
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Priority Call
During network busy periods, that service allows access
to network resources in order of user terminals call priority status. As there are 16 levels of priority in TETRA, this service is very useful in providing different Grade of Service (GoS) levels (and tariff structures) during busy periods. For example, front line officers would be provided with the highest priority levels in a Public Safety network to maintain the highest level of service access whilst routine users would be provided with lower priority levels.
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Busy Queuing
In TETRA a queue is provided in the trunking controller
during network busy periods to store and handle calls on a First In First Out (FIFO) basis in order of user priority level. The advantage is that a user only has to initiate a call request once, knowing that even in busy periods the call will be automatically established once a traffic channel becomes free, thus reducing user stress and frustration when contending with other users on a busy network.
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Dynamic Group Number Assignment This service allows the creation of unique Groups of users to handle different communication needs and may also be used to group participants in an ongoing call. This service is considered by many public safety organisations to be extremely useful in setting up a common talk group for incident communications. For example, selected users from the Police, Fire and Ambulance could be brought together to manage a major emergency where close co- ordination between the three emergency service are required. Similarly, DGNA is also considered useful for managing incidents by other user organisations such as Utilities and Transportation. Tuesday, May 12, 2020 NTIPRIT, Ghaziabad 30 Direct Mode Operation (DMO) Direct Mode Operation (DMO) provides the ability for TETRA radio terminals to communicate directly with each independent of the TETRA network infrastructure. DMO is not new and has been a facility mandated and used by many traditional PMR user organisations for several decades. The primary requirement for DMO has been brought about by the need to balance the RF Coverage, Grade of Service (GoS) and Reliability of a network with that of the network's overall cost. The requirement for DMO makes the use of public cellular networks unsuitable.
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Ambience Listening A Dispatcher may place a radio terminal into Ambience Listening mode without any indication being provided to the radio terminal user. This remote controlled action allows the dispatcher to listen to background noises and conversations within range of the radio terminal's microphone. This is an important service to utilise for those persons transporting important, valuable and/or sensitive material that could be 'hijack' targets. Similarly, this is a useful service to have implemented in public service vehicles where a driver's health and safety could be at risk. The number of user applications for the Ambience Listening service are numerous and in many cases application specific. However, it is important to note that many users feel that this service invades a person's privacy and for this reason only those users who need Ambience Listening as part of their work duties should be provided with this service. Tuesday, May 12, 2020 NTIPRIT, Ghaziabad 32 Call Authorised by Dispatcher
This service allows dispatcher to verify call requests
before calls are allowed to proceed. This is a useful service to utilise when radio user discipline needs to be maintained. This service also reduces the amount of radio traffic on a network as only essential work related calls are permitted. However, the frequent need for all informed net group communications between terminal users and the time delay experienced in authorising calls can make this service unacceptable for some user organisations.
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Area Selection
This service defines the areas of operation for users.
Areas can be chosen on a 'call by call' basis. This service basically simulates the ability for a dispatcher to select different base stations to make a call as was possible in conventional networks. This service also helps to improve network loading and overall spectrum efficiency by restricting the area of operation for selected all informed net group calls.
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Late Entry This service provides continuous call in progress updates to allow latecomers to join a communication channel. This is not a service but an air interface feature that allows a trunked radio terminal to behave in a similar way to conventional PMR terminals. For example, if a user turns on their TETRA terminal the control channel will automatically divert the user's terminal to a talk group call, if a call is already in progress. Similarly, if the user's terminal has been outside radio coverage, for example in a tunnel, the control channel will also divert the user's terminal to a talk group call assuming a call is already in progress. Tuesday, May 12, 2020 NTIPRIT, Ghaziabad 35 Voice Encryption
The TETRA standard supports a number of over the air
TETRA Encryption Algorithms (TEA's), the differences being the types of users who are permitted to use them. The main benefit of over the air encryption is that it can be implemented as software within radio terminals and base station equipment, instead of using encryption modules, which consume space and increase cost. The TETRA standard also supports 'end to end' encryption using a variety of other encryption algorithms as deemed necessary by national security organisations.
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Data Services Short Data Service The Short Data Service can provide up to 256 bytes of data, which can be used for basic status messaging, location information such as that provided by the TETRA Location Information Protocol (LIP) and free form text message applications in either 'point to point' or 'point to multipoint' call set- up configurations. Because of the relative short duration of each data message, this service is supported on TETRA control channel TDMA time slots. Packet Data Service The packet data service can be supported on one TDMA time slot with a gross protected bit rate of 4800 bits/s or multiple TDMA time slots up to a maximum of four. The use of multiple TDMA time slots is often referred to as bandwidth on demand and can be used to increase gross protected data throughput up to 19.2 kbits/s, thus increasing the number of non-voice applications that can be supported on TETRA.
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Direct Mode Operation (DMO)
DMO is the term used by the TETRA industry to
describe the ability of TETRA radio terminals to communicate directly with each other (like 'Walkie- Talkies') independent of the Trunked Mode Operation (TMO) network. DMO is not new and has been a fundamental mode of operation by many traditional PMR user organisations for several decades. The primary requirement for DMO in TETRA has been brought about by the need to balance the RF coverage, Grade of Service (GoS) and reliability of a network with that of the network's overall cost. Tuesday, May 12, 2020 NTIPRIT, Ghaziabad 38 Typical DMO Applications
The typical applications for DMO are local area
communications outside the TMO network and range extension of the TMO network. To improve communication capabilities when using these applications, facilities are provided to enable DMO users to be contacted by TMO network users when operating outside the network as well as facilities to enhance local area DMO RF coverage performance.
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Local Area DMO Communications Local area DMO communication is mainly used to provide additional capacity outside the TMO network for localised work activities, major incidents and/or periodic events. To a lesser extent, local area DMO communication is also used in poor TMO RF coverage areas and/or when service from a local base station site is lost. To provide this local area communication capability, practically all TETRA terminals, whether mobile or handportable terminals, are equipped with both TMO and DMO facilities.
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Local Area DMO Communications Application
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Local Area DMO Communications Application Figure shows a team of Electricity Utility workers repairing a damaged overhead power cable, which is a typical application for local area DMO communications. Because of the localised nature of the work, there is no need to load the main TMO network with localised voice traffic. For this reason, the team has made the decision to operate in DMO. Another contributing factor to this decision is that the team does not want to suffer GoS access problems when the TMO network is busy. It could also be possible that RF coverage from the local base station site may not support handportable operation and therefore DMO would be the only form of communication. For this type of local communications application a RF coverage range performance of approximately 250 metres is considered more than acceptable. Tuesday, May 12, 2020 NTIPRIT, Ghaziabad 42 TMO network range extension
The most frequently used DMO application is to
provide TMO network range extension allowing handportable communications in areas of a TETRA network where only mobile radio coverage is supported. To provide this TMO network range extension facility a vehicle mounted TETRA mobile radio terminal equipped with 'Gateway' operation is required to link a handportable or or mobile radio terminals operating in DMO with the TMO network. Figure 2 shows a typical police application for TMO network range extension.
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TMO network range extension
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TMO network range extension
Figure shows that a police officer has stopped a goods vehicle on
a main highway running through the countryside where only mobile communications are supported. In this example, the police officer needs to verify the vehicle registration, driving licence, and nature of goods carried. For this purpose it is more efficient for the officer to use a handportable radio terminal for communications with the police control centre than it is walking backwards and forwards between the goods vehicle and his patrol car. Also, having direct access to communications when away from the patrol car is important for the officer's health and safety. Again, for this type of local communications application, a RF coverage range performance of approximately 250 metres is considered more than acceptable. Tuesday, May 12, 2020 NTIPRIT, Ghaziabad 45 TETRA Security
The area of TETRA security is extensive, as it needs
to provide different levels of security ranging from what is acceptable on commercial networks to what is acceptable on a national public safety network. The security mechanisms in the standard are covered through Authentication, Air Interface Encryption (AIE) and End to End encryption. The threats to Confidentiality, Authenticity, Integrity, Availability as well as Accountability are covered with those three mechanisms.
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Technology Benefits The core technologies used in the TETRA standard, such as Digital, Trunking and Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) also provide a number of inherent advantages and benefits as follows: Digital Nowadays, practically everything electronic uses digital technology and wireless communications are no exception. Even though analogue FM PMR communications will remain a viable option for several years, digital radio provides relative advantages and disadvantages in the important performance areas of: Voice Quality RF Coverage Non-Voice Services Security Tuesday, Cost May 12, 2020 NTIPRIT, Ghaziabad 47 Trunking Because trunking systems support more radio users than conventional systems, national administrations actively support the deployment of trunking systems as this helps reduce pressure on meeting PMR spectrum demands. However, from a radio users operational point of view, spectrum efficiency does not really mean anything. What users want is to solve all the operational problems associated with conventional PMR, yet still retain the simplicity of conventional open channel 'all informed net' operation. The fundamental element of trunking that solves these conventional PMR problems is the use of a control channel. Tuesday, May 12, 2020 NTIPRIT, Ghaziabad 48 Conventional PMR problems solved by Trunking
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Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) A four time slot TDMA technology was adopted in TETRA as it offered the optimum solution to balance the cost of equipment with that of supporting the services and facilities required by user organisations for a medium to high capacity network providing single site local RF coverage and/or multiple site wide area RF coverage. Because of using TDMA technology, the cost and equipment space at base station sites can be significantly reduced compared with traditional FDMA technology trunking solutions. Another advantage of TDMA technology is that it enables new services and facilities to be supported with minimum cost. Tuesday, May 12, 2020 NTIPRIT, Ghaziabad 50 TDMA Advantages Higher Data Rates The 'laws of physics' limits the maximum data rate in a given RF channel bandwidth. Assuming the same modulation scheme, the wider the channel bandwidth the higher the data rate. Because TDMA uses wider channels than FDMA, the combined data rate on a single RF carrier is greater. Improved Data Throughput in Poor RF Signal Conditions The net data rate in TDMA is better than FDMA in poor RF propagation conditions. This is because Automatic Repeat Requests (ARQ's) are required when received data is corrupted as a result of RF fading. As TDMA terminal devices effectively operate in full duplex ARQ's can be sent efficiently after each time slot transmission instead of waiting until the end of each voice transmission, as is usually the case with FDMA. Tuesday, May 12, 2020 NTIPRIT, Ghaziabad 51 TDMA Advantages Bandwidth on Demand In TDMA any number of time slots up to the maximum limit of the technology being employed can be combined to increase data throughput as required for specific applications. Concurrent Voice and Data Because of the TDMA time slot structure it is possible to assign one time slot to support voice and the next time slot to support data in a two slot transmission from radio terminals. This capability effectively allows a single radio terminal to concurrently transmit or receive voice and data at the same time. Tuesday, May 12, 2020 NTIPRIT, Ghaziabad 52 TDMA Advantages
Full duplex Voice Communications
TDMA technology inherently supports full duplex communications. Although full duplex voice communications can be supported on FDMA systems the need for duplex operation requires RF screening between the transmitter and receiver and also a duplexer to allow single antenna working. Because of this, duplex FDMA radio terminals are usually bulkier and more costly to produce than TDMA terminals, which do not need RF screening or antenna duplexers. Tuesday, May 12, 2020 NTIPRIT, Ghaziabad 53 CONVENTIONAL VS. TRUNKED In general, radio systems can be separated into conventional and trunked systems. A conventional system is characterized by relatively simple geographically fixed infrastructure (such as a repeater network) that serves to repeat radio calls from one frequency to another. A trunked system is characterized by a controller in the infrastructure which assigns calls to specific channels. P25 supports both trunked and conventional radio systems.