ETSI TS 170 001 V3.3.1 (2008-03)

Project MESA; Service Specification Group - Services and Applications; Statement of Requirements (SoR)

RTS/MESA-SA0070001v331

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 26-Mar-2008
• Technical Committee: MESA SA - MESA Services and Applications
• Current Stage: 12 - Completion
• Due Date: 15-Mar-2008
• Completion Date: 27-Mar-2008

Standards Content (Sample)

Technical Specification
Project MESA;
Service Specification Group - Services and Applications;
Statement of Requirements (SoR)

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RTS/MESA-SA0070001v331
Keywords
digital, emergency, interoperability, PMR,
protection, radio, safety, SAR, satellite, security
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Contents
Intellectual Property Rights.7
Foreword.7
Introduction .8
1 Scope.10
2 References.10
2.1 Normative references.10
2.2 Informative references.10
3 Abbreviations.10
4 Executive Summary.12
5 Project MESA SoR.18
5.1 Objectives.18
5.2 Scope of requirements .18
5.3 User requirements.19
5.4 Use of existing protocols.19
5.5 Evolving specifications and standards.19
5.6 Use of open architectures .19
5.7 Mobile computer telecommunications system .19
5.8 Local, regional and national interoperability.19
5.9 Interoperability between MESA user devices .20
5.10 In building and portable service .20
5.11 Operational compromises.20
5.12 Compliant with the need of the participating nations.20
5.13 Pre-testing technology proposals.20
5.13a Type approval and interoperability testing.20
5.14 Frequency neutral technology .20
5.15 Improvements in spectrum efficiencies.20
5.16 Life-cycle procurements.20
5.17 Economical and ergonomically friendly design .21
5.18 Environmentally safe.21
5.18a Regional safety standards.21
5.19 Adequate interference protection.21
5.20 Migration.21
5.21 Consistent with existing standards .21
5.22 Related documents, standards, policies or requirements .22
5.23 Regulatory compliance.22
5.24 Compliance with national and international rules, regulations and standards.22
5.25 Compatible for multiple international standards .22
5.26 Publication of standards and specifications.22
5.27 Interface requirements.22
5.28 Interface protocol requirements.22
5.29 Transparent interfaces.22
5.30 Service platform.23
5.31 Two-way communication.23
5.32 Traffic distribution.23
5.33 Dynamic remote partitioning.23
5.34 Dynamic transfer rates and bandwidth allocation .23
5.35 Multiple levels of availability of service .23
5.36 Priority services.23
5.37 Simultaneous network or system access.23
5.38 Network pre-emption.23
5.39 First-In, first-Out.24
5.40 System and/or network transaction audit trail .24
5.41 Ability to provide statistical reports .24
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5.42 Agency-by-agency reports.24
5.43 MESA network component identification.24
5.44 Security requirements.24
5.45 Automated information requirements.24
5.46 Blocking unauthorized access .24
5.47 Over-the-air-rekeying (OTAR).24
5.48 High-speed, error-free service .25
5.49 End-to-end transmit time.25
5.50 Transparent transfer.25
5.51 Degradation and redundancy.25
5.52 Duty cycle requirements.25
5.53 Data to be transported.25
5.54 Network and data base interconnectivity.26
5.55 Network transmission requirements .26
5.56 Location Determination.26
5.57 Delayed transmission and remote stops.26
5.58 Dynamic updating of data fields.27
Annex A (informative): National and international public service and public safety programs,
standards, specifications and requirements .28
A.1 Implementation of interoperable technologies .28
A.2 Impact of PSWAC's four general requirements on Project MESA.28
A.3 Project MESA use of PSWAC recommendations.28
A.4 Impact of additional officers in the field.28
A.5 Law enforcement and criminal justice data systems .29
A.6 Prisons and correctional institutions.29
A.7 Use of Project MESA specifications and standards in deployment of Intelligent Transport System
(ITS) communications and other public safety related networks and systems.29
A.8 Use of GLS for vehicle and personnel tracking, security, and inventory control .30
A.9 Impact of recent major events on Project MESA SoR.31
A.10 Major incident operational dynamics .31
A.11 Institutional monitoring.31
A.12 Environmental monitoring.31
A.13 Administrative control of transportation and other related public safety telemetry.31
A.14 The use of global location system in Project MESA.33
A.15 Office of the future and general administrative applications .33
A.16 Network or system messaging.33
A.17 Emergency or distress signals .34
A.18 Corrections and probation officers and staff's use of full motion video.34
A.19 Major incident management and control video.34
A.20 Airborne command and control video.34
A.21 Normal incident command and control video .34
A.22 Traffic surveillance video.34
A.23 Surveillance and monitoring .34
A.24 Law enforcement video applications.35
A.25 Disaster relief video applications .35
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A.26 Land management and wildfire control applications for full motion video.35
A.27 Emergency medical services video applications .35
A.28 The use of robotics in a hazardous materials environment .35
A.29 Lifeguard and water rescue applications for robotics.36
A.30 Search and rescue applications of robotics.36
A.30.1 Robotics and video/imagery applications in search and rescue.36
A.30.2 Transmission of still photos for public safety applications .36
A.30.3 General encryption requirements .36
A.30.4 Specific and/or unique requirements of the United States Government.36
Annex B (informative): Known North American Federal, state and country requirements .39
Annex C (informative): Law enforcement scenario - Court House Murder.40
Annex D (informative): Law enforcement Scenario - U.S. State and Urban Police Response to
Earthquake Damage.42
Annex E (normative): Criminal Justice providers.44
Annex F (normative): Automated criminal history and law enforcement records systems
and providers .45
Annex G (normative): Emergency management or disaster recovery agencies .46
Annex H (normative): Special Operations needs.47
Annex I (normative): Health Services.48
I.1 Emergency Medical Services (EMS) .48
I.2 Disaster Medicine.48
Annex J (normative): Fire Services.49
Annex K (normative): Coast Guard Services (and related public safety functions).52
Annex L (normative): Search and Rescue Activities .53
L.1 Search Activities.53
L.2 Rescue Activities.53
Annex M (normative): Airport Security (and related public safety functions).54
Annex N (normative): Humanitarian Assistance .55
Annex O (normative): Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT) and related public safety services.56
O.1 Coordination and Management.56
O.2 Analysis and Material Classification.56
O.3 Handling.56
O.4 Cleanup and Rectification .56
Annex P (normative): Correctional institutions.57
P.1 Correctional enforcement and probation officers.57
Annex Q (normative): Planning precepts for responding to large public safety events or
emergencies.58
Annex R (normative): General governmental and/or government administration needs.59
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Annex S (normative): Land and natural resource management.60
Annex T (normative): Transportation's organizational mandates and missions.61
Annex U (normative): Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) .62
Annex V (normative): The use of technologies and the compatibility requirement for the
various applications .63
V.1 Data to be transported.63
V.2 General.63
V.3 Electronic messaging.63
V.4 Encryption.65
V.5 Office of the future.65
V.6 Transparent network and system access.66
V.7 ITS System Requirements.66
V.8 Transmission of complex files .67
V.9 System integrations and interoperability.68
V.10 Transmission of user and patient monitoring telemeter .68
V.11 Other public safety telemetry applications.68
V.12 Transmission of geographical location data.69
V.13 ITS video requirements .69
V.14 Transmission of full-motion video.70
V.15 Robotics with full-motion video.70
V.16 Transmission of still-photographs and images .71
Annex W (normative): UK Highways Agency - Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) .72
W.1 Objectives.72
W.2 The English strategic road network.72
W.3 Highways Agency. Transportation's organizational mandates and missions.72
W.4 Intelligent Transport Systems.72
W.5 ITS System Requirements.73
W.6 ITS video requirements .74
W.7 Transmission of full-motion video.74
W.8 Transmission of still-photographs and images .75
Annex X (informative): Bibliography.76
History .77

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Intellectual Property Rights
Project MESA is a collaborative activity who's Organizational Partners (OPs) as of the date of this document are the
European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). It is
not a legal entity.
MESA's Technical Working Procedures ("Procedures") provide that Individual Members of MESA are bound by the
IPR Policy of their respective OPs. The Procedures further provide that Individual Members should declare at the
earliest opportunity any IPRs that they believe to be essential or potentially essential to any work ongoing within
MESA.
Under the Procedures, the MESA Secretariat is required to maintain a register of IPR declarations relative to MESA,
received by the OPs.
Information concerning declarations of IPR relative to MESA which have been received from OPs and which have been
communicated to the MESA Secretariat are available and can be found as follows:
1. As to the MESA Secretariat: www.projectmesa.org or [e-mail];
2. As to ETSI: http://webapp.etsi.org/IPR/;
3. As to TIA: [e-mail].
The use or practice of the contents of this document may involve the use of IPRs including, but not limited to, pending
or issued patents, or copyrights. Pursuant to their respective policies, none of ETSI, TIA or MESA makes any search or
investigation for IPRs of any nature. ETSI, TIA and MESA, and each of them, takes no position with reference to, and
disclaims any obligation to investigate or inquire into, the scope or validity of any claims of IPR which are contained in
declarations or otherwise communicated to them, or any of them.
The ETSI IPR Policy is available on the ETSI web server (http://www.etsi.org/legal/) and the TIA IPR Policy is
available on the TIA web server (http://www.tiaonline.org) as part of the TIA Engineering Manual.
Foreword
This Technical Specification (TS) has been produced by Public Safety Partnership Project (MESA).
The contents of the present document are subject to continuing work within the Specification Group (SG) and may
change following formal SG approval. Should the SG modify the contents of the present document, it will be
re-released by the SG with an identifying change of release date and an increase in version number as follows:
Version x.y.z where:
x the first digit:
1 presented to SG for information;
2 presented to SG for approval;
3 or greater indicates SG approved document under change control.
y the second digit is incremented for all changes of substance, i.e. technical enhancements, corrections,
updates, etc.
z the third digit is incremented when editorial only changes have been incorporated in the document.
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The present document includes a general outline of the public safety community's technological needs for the transport
and distribution of rate-intensive data, digital video, infrared video and digital voice for both service-specific and
general applications. The present document was developed as part of a global effort to create uniform specifications and
eventually a suite of open standards that could be used for the creation of the next generation of wireless equipment that
will be needed to achieve the objectives of the public safety community. This effort is intended to, among other things,
support the efforts of the member countries of the Public Safety Partnership Project (PSPP), Project MESA (Mobility
Emergency Safety Applications) in meeting their own public safety and public service requirements.
(See also clause A.1, Implementation of Interoperable Technologies.)
NOTE: For the purpose of the SoR the terms "Public Safety" and "Public Protection and Disaster Relief" (PPDR)
are synonymous. PPDR is defined by the ITU-R. Telecommunication for Disaster Relief (TDR) is
utilized by the ITU-T. Emergency Telecommunication Service (ETS) is also defined by the ITU-T and
involves "National" Public Protection interests (ITU-T work would involve inter-national
communications issues only).
The convergence of voice and data services is revolutionizing the commercial transport of information, both wired and
wireless. To date, this convergence has had minimal impact on the dedicated two-way radio systems employed by most
public safety agencies. The Project MESA SoR anticipates that convergence will be a natural progression within the
public safety community as new rate-intensive technologies are implemented. (See also clause A.2, Impact of PSWAC's
Four General Requirements on Project MESA.)
The initial gross data rates identified in the present document involve capabilities that can support the next generation of
public safety wireless technologies. However, all of these requirements identified herein are also intended to clearly
chart the migration path from today's analogue systems to the next two generations of wireless, high-speed, digital
transport system specifications and standards.
Consistent with the public safety users' missions, it is also expected that the Project MESA SoR will emphasize
transparent and seamless applications, including multiple levels of security and encryptions. These applications should
be available on an individual or system-wide basis.
The Project MESA SoR is intended to describe a functional and technical specification and standards platform that can
be installed as either a private, leased or otherwise arranged system owned by the government or a
governmental/commercial partnership that provides needed service and/or infrastructure to public safety agencies and
possibly secondary service to other government or commercial clients.
For the purpose of the present document, public safety includes all criminal justice services, emergency management,
Emergency Medical Services (EMS), fire, land management, natural resource management (see also clause A.16,
Network or System Messaging), military, transportation, wildlife management, and other similar governmental
functions that have a need for aeronautical and terrestrial, high-speed, broadband, digital, mobile wireless
communications. (See also clause A.3, Project MESA Use of PSWAC Recommendations.)
Finally, it is important to note that the basic service and operational premises embodied in the Project MESA SoR are
jointly predicated on full compliance with the European Human Rights legislation and/or other citizen's rights as may
be defined in that document and/or by the United States Constitution and all other laws, rules and regulations that may
be subordinate to either of those documents.
Introduction
The users of professional wireless telecommunications equipment within the Sector of Public Protection and Disaster
Relief (PPDR) have developed the MESA SoR (SoR) document. It describes the services and applications, which a
future advanced wireless telecommunications system should be able to support in order to realize the most effective
operational environment for the Sector.
Emphasis has been placed on those applications, which current applied technology cannot carry out to the full, but
which have been identified by the users and their agencies to be key requirements and capabilities.
The present document is unique in the sense that it represents the first trans-Atlantic consolidated view expressed
directly by the professional users of advanced wireless telecommunication equipment.
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Within Partnership Project MESA the present document will be updated at regular intervals. This represents the focal
source of information for Project MESA's Industry members in their technical work, including Research and
Development, pointing forward towards the realization of globally applicable specifications for public safety-oriented
next generation communications and subsequent standards that will be transposed (including regional developments) by
the Organizations Partners. MESA will also take into account standards and technology that exists or is in development
by other technical entities (i.e. ITU, IEEE, etc.) and strive for related coordination and referencing between such
entities.
The present document is not specifically written to be studied end-to-end, rather it represents a unique source of
information in the aim of understanding the often very difficult and dangerous working environments, which the user
community is facing, such that Industry can provide the most effective and accurate technical solutions.
Finally, it represents the establishment of a clear understanding that the advanced needs of the PPDR Sector should be
based on a high-mobility, broadband wireless network or related capabilities that allow for the provision of dynamic
bandwidth, offering of self-healing characteristics and secure network access. The Project MESA SoR also reflects the
vision of a mobile broadband-shared network that can be simultaneously accessed by multiple users, with multiple
applications in a specified geographical area fully independent from availability of public networks and supply of
electrical power.
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1 Scope
The present document describes the basis for a functional and technical specification and standards platform that can be
installed as either a private system owned by government or a governmental/commercial partnership that provides
priority service to public safety agencies and possibly secondary service to other commercial clients.
It is envisaged that the Project MESA specifications will define robust management and control systems to ensure
secure and reliable operational capabilities for the public safety and public security users worldwide.
The present document reflects the requirements of public service and public safety agencies to have priority service and
system restoration, extremely reliable service, and ubiquitous coverage within a user's defined service area.
2 References
References are either specific (identified by date of publication and/or edition number or version number) or
non-specific.
• For a specific reference, subsequent revisions do not apply.
• Non-specific reference may be made only to a complete document or a part thereof and only in the following
cases:
- if it is accepted that it will be possible to use all future changes of the referenced document for the
purposes of the referring document;
- for informative references.
Referenced documents which are not found to be publicly available in the expected location might be found at
http://docbox.etsi.org/Reference.
For online referenced documents, information sufficient to identify and locate the source shall be provided. Preferably,
the primary source of the referenced document should be cited, in order to ensure traceability. Furthermore, the
reference should, as far as possible, remain valid for the expected life of the document. The reference shall include the
method of access to the referenced document and the full network address, with the same punctuation and use of upper
case and lower case letters.
NOTE: While any hyperlinks included in this clause were valid at the time of publication ETSI cannot guarantee
their long term validity.
2.1 Normative references
Not applicable.
2.2 Informative references
[1] ETSI TR 170 002: "Project MESA; Service Specification Group - Services and Applications;
Definitions, symbols and abbreviations".
3 Abbreviations
For the purposes of the present document, the abbreviations given in TR 170.002 [1] and the following apply:
AFIS Automated Fingerprint Information System
ATF U.S. Department of Treasury's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
ATL Attempt To Locate
CDMV Canadian Department of Motor Vehicles
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COMPUSEC COMPUter SECurity
COMSEC COMmunications SECurity
DMAT Disaster Medical Assistance Team
DMV Department of Motor Vehicles (US)
DOD Department Of Defense (US)
DOT Department Of Transportation (US)
ECG ElectroCardioGram
EMS Emergency Medical Services
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation (US)
FCC Federal Communications Commission (US)
FD Fire Department
FIFO First-In, First-Out
GIS Geographic Information System
GLS Global Location System
HAZMAT HAZardous MATerials
HF High Frequency
IAFIS Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System
IDWCS Integrated Digital Wireless Communications System
INFOSEC INFOrmation systems SECurity
IST Incident Support Team
ISTEA Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (US)
ITS Intelligent Transport System (Past term usage includes Intelligent Transportation System)
ITU International Telecommunications Union
LAN Local Area Network
MESA Mobility Emergency Safety Applications
MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging
NCIC National Crime Information Center (US)
NLETS National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (US)
NTIA National Telecommunications and Information Administration (US)
OP Organizational Partners
OSA Open System Architecture
OTAR Over-The-Air-Rekeying
PASS Personal Alert Safety Systems
PD Police Department
PP Public Protection
PPDR Public Protection and Disaster Relief
PS Public Safety
PSAP Public Safety Answering Point
PSPP Public Safety Partnership Project
PSWAC Public Safety Wireless Advisory Committee (US)
RF Radio Frequency
SC Steering Committee
SCADA Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition
SENTRY The Federal Bureau of Prisons' "SENTRY" database (US)
SoR Statement of Requirements
SSG Service Specification Group
TETRA TErrestrial Trunked Radio
TRANSEC TRANsmission SECurity
UL Underwriters Laboratories
US&R Urban Search and Rescue
USAR/TSAR Urban Search And Rescue/Technical Search And Rescue
WAN Wide Area Network
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4 Executive Summary
The Public Safety Partnership Project (PSPP), Project MESA (Mobility for Emergency and Safety Applications), is an
international collaborative effort for the coordination and development of next-generation high-mobility wireless
broadband data specifications, standards, and capabilities. A MESA-capable system and applicable standards are
envisioned to cover the transfer of digital voice, data, video (including infrared), and other digital data applications at
high data rates between and among MESA-capable user devices and external network components. Various
applications and services that the Project may benefit, as both an ad hoc or day-to-day operational environment, include
all MESA users involved in traditional Public Safety/Public Protection (PS/PP) entities such as law enforcement, fire
protection and suppression, and emergency medical services (i.e. First Responders to incidents).
For the purposes of the present document, the term "MESA user" is construed to also include all compensated and
volunteer PS/PP services, agencies, and entities that are involved in the aforementioned traditional activities and natural
and manmade emergency and disaster mitigation and response, homeland security, peacekeeping activities,
national/international crime and terror investigative services (including mass destruction and bio-terrorism
investigation, mitigation, and response), transportation provision and management, and natural resources management.
The term MESA user also includes those traditionally non-public safety governmental services that acquire a PS/PP
role, activity, or tasks in preparation for or in response to an emergency event or a pre-planned large-scale event. This
would include all military services that become engaged in support of any of these activities or roles.
The SoR (SoR) development, technical specification, and standards development activities of Project MESA are
currently supported through two Organizational Partners (OP), representing Europe and North America-the European
Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). The final
Project MESA deliverables will be used by the supporting Standards Development Organizations (i.e. TIA, ETSI, or
others who join later) for regional development and publication. Other technical organizations and entities are also
encouraged to consider MESA activities, specifications, and resulting standards that are published.
The initial Project MESA SoR document was approved by the Project MESA Steering Committee in 2002 and
represents the first trans-Atlantic consolidated view expressed directly by the professional users of advanced wireless
data communications equipment and systems. The SoR was developed as part of a global effort to identify and develop
uniform capabilities, scenarios, specifications, and eventually a suite of open technical standards that can be used for the
elaboration of next-generation wireless broadband data communications equipment and systems. These voluntary
standards will be used achieve the objectives of the MESA user communities. Project MESA's activities support the
efforts of the member organizations from many countries in meeting their own PS/PP and public service wireless data
telecommunications requirements.
The Project MESA SoR reflects the vision of a mobile broadband network (shared and/or ad hoc) that can be
simultaneously accessed by multiple users, using various applications and levels of security, in a specified geographical
area, and that may operate potentially independently from the availability of public networks and the supply of
commercial electrical power. Specifically, the SoR describes the services and applications (involving peak air interface
user data rates at least 1,5 to 2 megabits per second (Mbps) or greater) that a wireless telecommunications sy
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