Implementation status :
GSM-R
Robert SARFATI
UIC ERTMS/GSM-R Operators’ Group
Chairman
ETSI Technical Committee Rail Chairman
SYSTRA
FIRSE
Robert Sarfati – UIC CCRCC Conference
Operators Group Chairman Lille, 12-13 November 2013
Background: GSM-R an European choice
In Europe, existing standard technologies were considered for the new
digital radio technology, The choice of GSM was finalized in 1995.
GSM-R standards were developed based on GSM R99 technology and
included all railways specific requirements and an allowance of a
specific additional frequency range
Enhanced Location Dependent Addressing
(eLDA)
Enhanced Railway Emergency Call (eREC) l Applications
Short Message Service to Functional Number
Functional Numbering Railway functional
Location Dependent Addressing Requirements
High speed – up to 500 km/h (EIRENE)
Voice Group Call Service (VGCS)
Voice Broadcast Service (VBS) GSM enhancements
Enhanced Multi Level Precedence and Pre- for railways ( ETSI EN301515) )
emption (eMLPP)
All functionalities available for GSM-R including
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution
Standard GSM functionality
Robert Sarfati – UIC CCRCC Conference
Operators Group Chairman Lille, 12-13 November 2013
PMR functionalities of GSM-R
GSM-R is a worldwide standard, developed within the
frame of the GSM/3GPP standards to include Rail &
Transport needs.
- It includes a dedicated radio spectrum for exclusive
rail use, all over Europe (876-880 / 921-925 MHz) with
extension possible within (873-915 / 918-960 MHz) for
worldwide application.
- It includes features specific for Railways operations .
- It is the bearer for ETCS and Track-to-Train radio .
- It allows for evolution towards new features such as
Packet Switching GPRS/EGPRS and Release 4
architecture.
Robert Sarfati – UIC CCRCC Conference
Operators Group Chairman Lille, 12-13 November 2013
Standardization is a continuous process
GPRS
3GPP/UMTS/LTE
GSM EGPRS
Phase 2 Rel '99 Rel-4 Rel-N Rel-12
1992 1997 2000 2001 2002 2012
Robert Sarfati – UIC CCRCC Conference
Operators Group Chairman Lille, 12-13 November 2013
GSM-R
current status
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From an European standard
GSM-R is in operation in most of the European
Countries and ETCS L2 roll out is based on GSM-R.
70,000 km of track are in GSM-R operation just in
Europe and 84,000 km more are planned to be
covered in addition*
GSM-R is expanding worldwide: 138,000 km are
planned to be covered outside Europe. **
*) source: UIC e-News 311
**) source: Kapsch CarrierCom, Nokia Siemens Networks - GSM-R in operation
Robert Sarfati – UIC CCRCC Conference
Operators Group Chairman Lille, 12-13 November 2013
To a worldwide standard
The European experience is now a blueprint for a global deployment
India
Turkey
Saudi//UAE/Qatar/Oman
Algeria/Libya/Morocco/Tunisia
South Africa
Australia
China
Russia/Turkmenistan
Contracts awarded*
1998-2013
* Source UIC and GSM-R IG
Robert Sarfati – UIC CCRCC Conference
Operators Group Chairman Lille, 12-13 November 2013
GSM-R an
evolving
system
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From the European Legislation perspective
MoU ERTMS– A Memorandum of Understanding ERTMS was
signed between the European Commission, European Railway
Agency and the Rail Sector Organisations :
The Parties note the commitment of the GSM-R Industry
Group members to the long-term support of GSM-R
technology, at least until 2025. Nevertheless
telecommunications systems usually have a much shorter
life cycle than signalling systems. For this reason, it should
be possible to replace the 'telecommunications part of on-
board equipment without this having an impact on the
'safety critical signalling path.
Today ETCS applications work with GSM-R circuit-
switched services. It does seem possible, however, to use
packet-switch systems (e.g. GPRS) and, in the longer term,
other IP-based standards, without impacting on the ETCS
specifications.
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Step 1: Needs analysis
Narrow Band Red – Railway
& Mission Network supported
Critical applications
Applications
Critically for Railway Operations
Train Radio Blue – Potential
ETCS
Parallel networks
supported applications
Operation and
Maintenance
Teams
Broadband
Train
Maintenance Driver Look Ahead CCTV
crew
applications Real time passenger video information
Mail, WEB for passengers
Bandwidth
Robert Sarfati – UIC CCRCC Conference
Operators Group Chairman Lille, 12-13 November 2013
Step 2: NSS and FTS migration
ETSI TS 103 066 V1.1.2 (2012-04) ETSI TS 103 147 V1.1.1 (2013-06)
Technical Specification
Technical Specification
Railway Telecommunications (RT);
Railway Telecommunications (RT); GSM-R Core Network Redundancy
Rel-4 Core Network requirements for GSM-R
From FTS
Foreign R99
Network To R4
BICN ETSI TS 103 389 V1.1.1 (2011-09)
NSS: Technical Specification
From R99 to BICN R4 Core Growing,
BSS Railway Telecommunications (RT);
Global System for Mobile communications (GSM);
Network architecture and PS Usage of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) on the
Network Switching Subsystem (NSS) to Fixed Terminal
Subsystem (FTS) interface for GSM Operation on Railways improved
Roaming Exchange applications
NSS to FTS: BSC
SIP introduction at Interface,
VRS with IP interface.
Transmission network
IP Guideline
IP QoS BTS
GPRS/EGPRS for ETCS
Robert Sarfati – UIC CCRCC Conference
Operators Group Chairman Lille, 12-13 November 2013
Step 3: BSS & Terminals migration
FTS
Foreign From R99
Network To R4+
features
NSS: From R4 to R4+ Core
Network architecture and features
NSS to FTS: SIP phase 2 BSS
introduction at Interface
Transmission network : IP
introduction within distribution BSC
network
IP BSS:
“Full IP end to end interface over
the Abis interface of BSS”
Terminals
Software Defined Radio
BTS
VoIP over the Air interface
Robert Sarfati – UIC CCRCC Conference
Operators Group Chairman Lille, 12-13 November 2013
Conclusion
The analysis showed that communication technology
evolution is not complete, but the IP based technology is
the stable platform.
The worldwide evolution shows that 3GPP UMTS is still a
long term technology for voice and preserves more than
80% of railways assets while evolving toward IP.
The roadmap for evolution should be « railways needs
evolution » based, not « technology only » driven.
GSMR-IP is today offering a Global answer to Users needs,
allows from the Shelves delivery, ensures Multi-supplier
environment, is Reliable, prepared for Innovation and
answers Promises.
Robert Sarfati – UIC CCRCC Conference
Operators Group Chairman Lille, 12-13 November 2013
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THANK YOU
Robert Sarfati – UIC CCRCC Conference
Operators Group Chairman Lille, 12-13 November 2013