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European SDR for wireless in joint security operations
Civilian security view based on
EULER programme
Timo Bräysy, CWC/Univ. of Oulu
EDA SDR Conference 17.-18.11.2009
Goals• The EULER -project aims to define and demonstrate the benefits of SDR in
enhancing interoperability and fast deployment in case of national and
international joint emergency service operations.
• The task is to build upon recent efforts on the SDR architecture standard
shared at European level and based upon the SCA concepts.
• The work consists of specifying, designing and developing a security
referential platform including high data rate waveforms (software defining
the services, communication protocols, interfaces, algorithms, security
features, spectrum use, etc. for SDR) for security applications.
• Contribution to the further development of SDR architecture standard to
fully support decomposition of waveforms and components to the GPPs,
DSPs and FPGAs.
• Euler provides an illustrative case of waveform portability.
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Vision
• The EULER -project will shape and clarify the
European vision for interoperability in joint
emergency and security services in close
cooperation with E.U. stakeholders in the field
of security forces management.
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EULER Facts
• Activity 4 : Restoring security and safety in case of crisis
– Topic 4.2.4 : Wireless communication for E.U crisis management
– Integration project
• Name: EULER
• Conducting the proposal: THALES France
• Duration: 3 years, Starting date 01/03/2009
• Total cost: ~15,5 M€
• Consortium: involves
– Business groups in both Security and HLS Radio (SDR) area
– SMEs
– Research centres and universities
• EULER collaborative research project gathers main European
actors to demonstrate how the benefits of Software Defined
Radio can be leveraged in order to enhance interoperability and
fast deployment in case of crisis needed to be jointly resolved.
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THALES Communications SA
Elsag Datamat
EADS Astrium Ltd
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Selex-Communications
EADS Secure Networks SAS
Telespazio
University of PisaSaab communications T.N.O Indra
Prismtech
Centre for Wireless Communications
Rohde & Schwarz
IMEC
Joint Research Center
Supélec-Rennes
Elektrobit
EULER Partners
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Euler partners
• THALES Communications (FR)
– Project coordinator
• FinMeccanica (IT)
– Selex-Communications
– Telespazio
– Elsag Datamat
• EADS (Fr, UK)
– EADS Secure networks
– Astrium – UK
• Indra (SP)
• SAAB Communications (Swe)
• Elektrobit (FI)
• Rohde & Schwarz (GE)
• SMEs
– Prismtech (UK)
• Research centers
– JRC (EU)
– TNO (NL)
– IMEC (BE)
• Universities labs
– University of Pisa (IT)
– Center for Wireless
communications (FI)
– University of Budapest (HU)
– Supélec-Rennes (Fr)
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Why interoperability in PSC?
• Sample scenarios(*)
– Wildfire scene: Direct communication between fire
fighters and aircrafts using legacy aviation
waveforms
– Building collapse: Communication between TETRA
phones of resque teams and GSM phones of victims
– Disaster site: Fire brigades, police, medical
personnel, etc. all use their own equipment for
interoperable communication. Single SDR base
station handles the complexity.
– International resque operations
7(*) From Wintsec-project
Drivers – New capabilities with SDR
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Operational requirementsJoint Operations with different agencies
(possibly from different Countries)
Public safety organizations operate in
unpredictable conditions also from the
point of view of spectrum availability
(interferences)
Public safety operations are usually
unplanned and communications
infrastructures may not be available.
Public Safety operators may not have the
interoperable terminals with the
wireless networks existing in the
emergency area.
Evolving Technologies and standards may
cause the existing wireless equipment to
become obsolete.
Limited budget for infrastructure/quipment
upgrade
Different levels of security among agencies
Required capabilities
Flexible Spectrum
Management
Reconfigurability
Backward compatibility
with legacy equipment
Software upgrade vs.
hardware upgrade.
Support for
multilevel security.
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Drivers – Mobile broadband for PSC
• EULER provides wireless broadband networking
capabilities for security and resque personnel
• Operational
requirements
from a group
of end-users.
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Use of SDR in civilian security
• Critical issues to be addressed
(players and their roles)
– Standardisation issue
• ETSI: EMTEL/MESA, TC-RSS
– Communication requirements (incl. security)
• EU & EDA Ongoing projects
– Harmonization of procedures and standards
• SCA, ESSOR, ESRA (WintSec)
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Approach
• The EULER-project will
– propose a new high-data-rate waveform for
emergency and security operations and its
implementation for SDR following the ESRA
recommendations,
– provide proof-of-concept waveform implementation
and portability on several software defined radio
platforms and
– realize an integrated demonstrator targeted towards
end-users,
– strengthen and mature ongoing efforts in Europe in
the field of SDR standardization.11
ESRA framework(*)
• European Software Radio Architecture
– ESRA is an European initiative to adapt, customize
and enhance the SCA
• Certification and standardization efforts are
main objectives of the project!
• Key aspects include
– Developing SDR waveform engineering practices
– Expanding adoption of current technologies
12(*) WintSec-project
ESRA framework
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SDR Sets
• Vision & Terms of Reference
• State-of-the-art Analysis
• Recommendations
SDR Architectures
ESRA Framework
Pre-normative towards ESRA
Motivation for ESRA
• Technical approach to SDR programming
– Wider scope than recommending *one* technology (e.g. SCA)
– But defining common unifying denominator
– Core requirements : portability
– Decoupling platform interfaces from programming rules
– Compatibility with different platform specifications
• Ability to have custom runtime environments for
platforms, depending on their usage model.
– In particular, be compatible with SCA
• European Public Safety Services in SDR
– Radio Services relevant to European Crisis Management
Communications.14
EULER: Implementations
• Different SDR platform providers• Thales, Astrium, Spectrum
• Different execution environments
– CORBA everywhere
– MHAL
• Transceiver
– Transceiver facility V1 implementation (SDR-Forum)
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Euler SDR environments
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Portability exercise on
three different SDR
platforms!
EULER contributions to ESRA:
Definition of SDR platforms• ESRA specification extension and maturation: SDR standardization
is still a work in progress, especially in the scope of better
supporting portability, specialized devices (DSPs and FPGAs), and
also in the specification of general enough hardware abstraction
layers (an example being the so-called Transceiver capability).
– The aim to realize a high-data-rate portable waveform emphasizes these
needs, because of the implied important use of the DSP and FPGAs specialized
devices for performance reasons.
• Derive from PSC information and communication assurance
requirements the constraints on the architecture of the SDR
embedded platform
– Define architectural strategies to answer, prototype and integrate them
– Investigate and evaluate the strategies for highly-optimized implementations
and perform its integration on the SDR platforms.
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EULER Demonstration
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Thank You
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