Intelligent transport systems - Traffic and travel information(TTI) via transport protocol experts group, generation 2 (TPEG2) — Part 6: Message management container (TPEG2-MMC)

ISO/TS 21219-6:2015 adds a basic toolkit definition to the ISO 21219 series specifying the Message Management Container (MMC), which is used by all TPEG applications to provide information about the handling of messages on the TPEG client side. The MMC holds administrative information allowing a decoder to handle the message appropriately. This information is not aimed at the end user. The MMC is a toolkit and not a stand-alone application but is included by TPEG applications.

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TECHNICAL ISO/TS
SPECIFICATION 21219-6
First edition
2015-03-01
Intelligent transport systems - Traffic
and travel information via transport
protocol experts group, generation
2(TPEG2) —
Part 6:
Message management container
(TPEG2-MMC)
Systèmes intelligents de transport — Informations sur le trafic et le
tourisme via le groupe expert du protocole de transport, génération 2
(TPEG2) —
Partie 6: Conteneur de gestion de message (TPEG2-MMC)
Reference number
ISO/TS 21219-6:2015(E)
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Contents Page
Foreword .iv
Introduction .vi
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms . 1
3.1 Terms and definitions . 1
3.2 Abbreviated terms . 2
4 MMC components and capabilities . 2
4.1 Overview . 2
4.2 Lifecycle and identification of a TPEG message . 6
4.3 MMCTemplate . 6
4.4 MessageManagementContainer . 7
4.5 MMCMasterMessage . 7
4.6 MMCMessagePart . 8
5 MMC Datatypes . 8
5.1 MultiPartMessageDirectory . 8
6 MMC Tables. 9
6.1 mmc001:PartType . 9
6.2 mmc002:UpdateMode . 9
Annex A (normative) Management Container, MMC,TPEG-Binary Representation .10
Annex B (normative) Management Container, MMC, TPEG-ML Representation .13
Bibliography .18
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Foreword
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bodies (ISO member bodies). The work of preparing International Standards is normally carried out
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described in the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 1. In particular the different approval criteria needed for the
different types of ISO documents should be noted. This document was drafted in accordance with the
editorial rules of the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2 (see www.iso.org/directives).
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. ISO and TISA shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
Details of any patent rights identified during the development of the document will be in the Introduction
and/or on the ISO list of patent declarations received (see www.iso.org/patents).
Any trade name used in this document is information given for the convenience of users and does not
constitute an endorsement.
For an explanation on the meaning of ISO specific terms and expressions related to conformity
assessment, as well as information about ISO’s adherence to the WTO principles in the Technical Barriers
to Trade (TBT) see the following URL: Foreword - Supplementary information
The committee responsible for this document is ISO/TC 204 Intelligent transport systems, in cooperation
with the Traveller Information Services Association (TISA), TPEG Applications Working Group through
Category A Liaison status.
ISO/TS 21219 consists of the following parts, under the general title Intelligent transport systems —
Traffic and travel information (TTI) via transport protocol expert group, generation 2 (TPEG2):
— Part 2: UML modelling rules [Technical Specification]
— Part 3: UML to binary conversion rules [Technical Specification]
— Part 4: UML to XML conversion rules [Technical Specification]
— Part 5: Service framework [Technical Specification]
— Part 6: Message management container [Technical Specification]
— Part 7: Location referencing container [Technical Specification]
— Part 18: Traffic flow and prediction application [Technical Specification]
The following parts are planned:
— Part 1: Introduction, numbering and versions [Technical Specification]
— Part 9: Service and network information [Technical Specification]
— Part 10: Conditional access information [Technical Specification]
— Part 14: Parking information application [Technical Specification]
— Part 15: Traffic event compact application [Technical Specification]
— Part 16: Fuel price information application [Technical Specification]
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— Part 19: Weather information application [Technical Specification]
— Part 20: Extended TMC location referencing [Technical Specification]
— Part 21: Geographic location referencing [Technical Specification]
— Part 22: OpenLR·location·referencing [Technical Specification]
— Part 23: Roads·and·multi-modal·routes·application [Technical Specification]
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Introduction
History
TPEG technology was originally proposed by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) Broadcast
Management Committee, who established the B/TPEG project group in the autumn of 1997 with a brief
to develop, as soon as possible, a new protocol for broadcasting traffic and travel-related information
in the multimedia environment. TPEG technology, its applications and service features were designed
to enable travel-related messages to be coded, decoded, filtered and understood by humans (visually
and/or audibly in the user’s language) and by agent systems. Originally a byte-oriented data stream
format, which may be carried on almost any digital bearer with an appropriate adaptation layer, was
developed. Hierarchically structured TPEG messages from service providers to end-users were designed
to transfer information from the service provider database to an end-user’s equipment.
One year later in December 1998, the B/TPEG group produced its first EBU specifications. Two documents
were released. Part 2 (TPEG-SSF, which became ISO/TS 18234-2) described the Syntax, Semantics and
Framing structure, which was used for all TPEG applications. Meanwhile Part 4 (TPEG-RTM, which
became ISO/TS 18234-4) described the first application, for Road Traffic Messages.
Subsequently in March 1999, CEN TC 278/WG 4, in conjunction with ISO/TC 204/WG 10, established a
project group comprising members of the former EBU B/TPEG and they continued the work concurrently.
Further parts were developed to make the initial set of four parts, enabling the implementation of a
consistent service. Part 3 (TPEG-SNI, ISO/TS 18234-3) described the Service and Network Information
Application, used by all service implementations to ensure appropriate referencing from one service
source to another.
Part 1 (TPEG-INV, ISO/TS 18234-1), completed the series, by describing the other parts and their
relationship; it also contained the application IDs used within the other parts. Additionally, Part 5,
the Public Transport Information Application (TPEG-PTI, ISO/TS 18234-5), was developed. The so-
called TPEG-LOC location referencing method, which enabled both map-based TPEG-decoders and non
map-based ones to deliver either map-based location referencing or human readable text information,
was issued as ISO/TS 18234-6 to be used in association with the other applications parts of the
ISO/TS 18234-series to provide location referencing.
The ISO/TS 18234-series has become known as TPEG Generation 1.
TPEG Generation 2
With the inauguration of the Traveller Information Services Association (TISA) in December 2007
derived from former Forums and the CEN/ISO development project group, the TPEG Applications
Working Group took over development work for TPEG technology.
It was about this time that the (then) new Unified Modelling Language (UML) was seen as having major
advantages for the development of new TPEG Applications in communities who would not necessarily
have binary physical format skills required to extend the original TPEG TS work. It was also realized
that the XML format for TPEG described within the ISO/TS 24530-series (now superseded) had a greater
significance than previously foreseen; especially in the content-generation segment and that keeping
two physical formats in synchronism, in different standards series, would be rather difficult.
As a result TISA set about the development of a new TPEG structure that would be UML based – this has
subsequently become known as TPEG Generation 2.
TPEG2 is embodied in the ISO/TS 21219-series and it comprises many parts that cover introduction,
rules, toolkit and application components. TPEG2 is built around UML modelling and has a core of rules
that contain the modelling strategy covered in Parts 2, 3, 4 and the conversion to two current physical
formats: binary and XML; others could be added in the future. TISA uses an automated tool to convert
from the agreed UML model XMI file directly into an MS Word document file, to minimize drafting
errors, that forms the Annex for each physical format.
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TPEG2 has a three container conceptual structure: Message Management (Part 6), Application (many
Parts) and Location Referencing (Part 7). This structure has flexible capability and can accommodate
many differing use cases that have been proposed within the TTI sector and wider for hierarchical
message content.
TPEG2 also has many location referencing options as required by the service provider community,
any of which may be delivered by vectoring data included in the Location Referencing Container. The
following classification provides a helpful grouping of the different TPEG2 parts according to their
intended purpose:
Toolkit parts: TPEG2-INV (Part 1), TPEG2-UML (Part 2), TPEG2-UBCR (Part 3), TPEG2-UXCR (Part 4),
TPEG2-SFW (Part 5), TPEG2-MMC (Part 6), TPEG2-LRC (Part 7)
Special applications: TPEG2-SNI (Part 9), TPEG2-CAI (Part 10)
Location referencing: TPEG2-ULR (Part 11), TPEG2-ETL (Part 20), TPEG2-GLR (Part 21), TPEG2-OLR
(Part 22)
Applications: TPEG2-PKI (Part 14), TPEG2-TEC (Part 15), TPEG2-FPI (Part 16), TPEG2-TFP (Part 18),
TPEG2-WEA (Part 19), TPEG2-RMR (Part 23)
TPEG2 has been developed to be broadly (but not totally) backward compatible with TPEG1 to assist in
transitions from earlier implementations, while not hindering the TPEG2 innovative approach and being
able to support many new features, such as dealing with applications having both long-term, unchanging
content and highly dynamic content, such as Parking Information.
This Technical Specification is based on the TISA specification technical/editorial version number:
TPEG2-MMC/1.1/001.
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Intelligent transport systems - Traffic and travel
information via transport protocol experts group,
generation 2(TPEG2) —
Part 6:
Message management container (TPEG2-MMC)
1 Scope
This Technical Specification adds a basic toolkit definition to the ISO 21219 series specifying the Message
Management Container (MMC), which is used by all TPEG applications to provide information about the
handling of messages on the TPEG client side. The MMC holds administrative information allowing a
decoder to handle the message appropriately. This information is not aimed at the end user. The MMC is
a toolkit and not a stand-alone application but is included by TPEG applications.
2 Normative references
The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and are
indispensable for its application. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated
references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
ISO/TS 18234-3, Intelligent transport systems — Traffic and travel information via transport protocol
experts group, generation 1 (TPEG1) binary data format — Part 3: Service and network information (TPEG1-
SNI)
ISO/TS 21219-2, Intelligent transport — Traffic and travel information (TTI) via transport protocol experts
group, generation 2 (TPEG2) — Part 2: UML modelling rules
ISO/TS 21219-3, Intelligent transport systems — Traffic and travel information (TTI) via transport protocol
experts group, generation 2 (TPEG2) — Part 3: UML to binary conversion rules
ISO/TS 21219-4, Intelligent transport systems — Traffic and travel information (TTI) via transport protocol
experts group, generation 2 (TPEG2) — Part 4: UML to XML conversion rules
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms
3.1 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.
3.1.1
Message
unit of information that is controlled under a message ID and contains a MessageManagementContainer,
MMCMasterMessage or MMCMessagePart component
3.1.2
Monolithic Message Management
message management that allows versioning of messages by updating complete messages only
Note 1 to entry: See 4.1.3.
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3.1.3
Multipart Message Management
message management that allows parts of messages being transmitted in packets independently
Note 1 to entry: See 4.1.4.
3.1.4
Top Level Container
any component that is on the same level as the message management container
3.1.5
TPEG Server
device or entity on the sending side of the TPEG transmission chain
Note 1 to entry: May consist, e.g. of a TPEG encoder, a stream encoder, a network transmission unit.
3.1.6
TPEG Client
device or entity on the receiving side of the TPEG transmission chain
Note 1 to entry: May consist, e.g. of a broadcast receiver, a TPEG decoder unit.
3.2 Abbreviated terms
MMC Message Management Container
LRC Location Referencing Container
ADC Application Data Container
4 MMC components and capabilities
4.1 Overview
4.1.1 Structure
Figure 1 — Structure of the Message Management Container
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4.1.2 Capabilities
Any TPEG message typically consists of the following top level containers (see also Figure 2 below):
— Exactly one Message Management Container (MMC)
— Optionally one or several Application Data Container(s) (ADC)
— Optionally one Location Reference Container (LRC)
The MMC contains no data dedicated for the user but only administrative information for the TPEG
decoder to handle the message appropriately.
While the ADC part is defined specifically by the related TPEG application specification, the TPEG MMC
toolkit is specified by this Technical Specification for all TPEG applications. The general capabilities and
features of the MMC toolkit may be restricted or further detailed by the particular TPEG applications.
The MMC is always stereotyped as ordered component and shall be the first component in the TPEG
Message. The other parts of the message may as well be stereotyped as “UnorderedComponent”.
Figure 2 — General structure of a TPEG message
The MMC toolkit includes two basic mechanisms for message management, the Monolithic Message
Management and Multipart Message Management, which are described in the following sub-clauses.
Both mechanisms exclude each other, i.e. for a given time there shall either be a message delivered
by Monolithic or by Multipart Message Management. Therefore, if a TPEG Client receives a monolithic
message and already has a multipart-combined message with the same messageID in its repository it
shall remove this message from its repository and shall replace it by the received monolithic message.
Vice versa, a monolithic message shall be replaced by a new multipart-message as well.
4.1.3 Monolithic Message Management
The usage of monolithic message management enables the replacement of a complete TPEG message by
a more recent version of the same message. Thus, this message management method is suitable for TPEG
services where most parts of the message are changing during the message updates.
The monolithic message management applies the class ‘MessageManagementContainer’ only which
inherits all attributes from the parent class ‘MMCTemplate’ and adds no further ones. The replacement
process described above is signalled by using the same value of the attribute ‘messageID’ and an
increased value of the attribute ‘versionID’ (see Figure 3 below).
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Figure 3 — Replacement of an overall message by Monolithic Message Management
In case of a cancellation, the messageID contained in the MMC indicates the prior received message
with the same messageID to be cancelled. If the messageID and versionID is identical to a previously
transmitted message this signals that all attached application content, (i.e. all ADC and LRC components
transmitted in the message) is identical with the previously sent content. In that case a receiver need not
do a byte-by-byte content comparison of the ADC and LRC content, but nevertheless needs to check the
MMC content as that may differ (e.g. a different expiration time).
4.1.4 Multipart Message Management
Multipart message management enables the partial update of messages, i.e. it may be used to replace
dedicated parts of a message version by version, while other parts remain unchanged. Thus, this method
is suitable in particular for TPEG applications where large parts of the message content are static or
quasi-static (see also 4.5 and 4.6).
The Multipart message management applies the classes ‘MMCMasterMessage’ and ‘MMCMessagePart’ (see
4.1.1). Additional to the attributes inherited from the parent class ‘MMCTemplate’, the ‘MMCMasterMessage’
container includes a list with the partial messages (attribute ‘multiPartMessageDirectory’) which
shall list all partial messages of the overall/combined message. The master-message shall contain the
‘MMCMasterMessage’ container only and no ADC or LRC information. The latter containers shall be
included in the corresponding partial messages, which are indicated by the ‘MMCMessagePart’ type
MMC.
The master message and each of the related partial messages shall have the same ‘messageID’ but
shall have an independent versioning, i.e. all parts can have a different ‘versionID’ and the value of this
attribute refers to the related message part. Therefore, the TPEG Client has to store the ‘versionID’ of the
most recently received version of each partial message to manage the partial updates of the messages.
In particular, the stored combined message shall be updated by a received partial message only if the
‘versionID’ of the partial message is more recent than the stored ‘versionID’ of the same partial message.
If the content of the multiPartMessageDirectory has been modified, i.e. the version ID of the
‘MMCMasterMessage’ is changed, all related partial messages sent before are not valid anymore. A TPEG
Client shall then rebuild the message completely by receiving the up-to-date partial messages.
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Currently, there is one update feature (‘replaceTopLevel’) defined for partial messages which is signalled
by the ‘updateMode’ attribute of the ‘MMCMessagePart’ component. Other update modes may be added
in future versions.
4.1.4.1 Update mode ‘replaceTopLevel’
This feature may be used to replace or add components in the combined message by the components
transmitted by the partial message. The components included by the partial message shall be a sub-tree
of the overall message structure, starting with one of the ADC or LDC components as root component.
This means that the partial message will update the Application Data or Location Referencing Containers
and its related sub-components. Therefore, this feature is an enhancement of the monolithic message
management where only an overall message can be replaced/added.
If one or several of the components contained in the partial message are present in the so far stored
combined message, these components shall be replaced. If one or several of the components contained
in the partial message are not yet present in the so far stored combined message these components shall
be added to the combined message.
As only complete components are added/replaced, each of the components contained in the partial
message shall include all attributes which are intended to be part of the combined message.
If a combined message contains more than one component of the same component type at a given
position within the message structure, all these components shall be replaced by the one(s) contained in
the partial message. In particular an array of components (multiplicity [0.*] or [1.*]) shall be replaced
completely by the updating message.
Figure 4 — Example addition/replacement of top level containers by partial messages
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4.2 Lifecycle and identification of a TPEG message
TPEG messages or partial messages have the following life-cycle stages which are signalled by the value
of the attribute ‘versionID’ (see also attribute definition in 4.3):
— First transmission: The value of ‘versionID’ should be 0
— Message Updates: When the content of a message is updated, i.e. the ADC and/or LRC parts are
changing, the versionID value shall be incremented for each new version. This increment should be
1. If the value exceeds 255 it shall be set to a value <255 (wrap around); This value should be 0. In
the case of wrap around the TPEG Server shall ensure, that the last usage of the messageExpiryTime
for a message with that versionID has expired, before the wrap around appears.
— Cancellation: When a message is not valid anymore the TPEG Server may send a cancellation
message with the corresponding ‘messageID’ value of the message. A cancellation shall result in an
incremented versionID with respect to the message it cancels as a cancellation indicates a change in
content. The usage of the message cancellation has to be detailed by the particular TPEG application
specifications.
— Message expiration: If the current time has progressed beyond the messageExpiryTime of the last
received version of the message, the message shall be considered as invalid and not be presented to
the user anymore. Message expiration shall be supported both by the client and the server side.
The ‘messageID’ shall be unique within a dedicated TPEG Service Component. The latter is identified
worldwide uniquely by its Application and Content Identification (ACID) which is formed by the TPEG
ServiceID, the Content Identification (COID) and Application Identification (AID) as described in the SNI
specification (see ISO/TS 18234-3).
A TPEG Client shall not rely on the uniqueness of the messageID and versionID once a message is expired.
A TPEG Client shall not rely on the versionID to be incremented by 1 as, e.g. message updates may be lost
during transmission.
4.3 MMCTemplate
The abstract component MMCTemplate provides basic attributes for the child components
MessageManagementContainer, MMCMasterMessage and MMCMessagePart (see the following
subclauses). Applications shall not reference the MMCTemplate component, but one or several of the
derived components instead.
Name Type Multiplicity Description
messageID IntUnLoMB 1 Unique identifier for a message relating to a particular event
transmitted in a particular TPEG service component.
versionID IntUnTi 1 Serial number that distinguishes successive versions of one mes-
sage in case of message updates. The versionID numbers shall be
used incrementally, enabling to track the update progress of a
message from first transmission, through updates to cancellation.
Wrap around is applied, i.e. the versionID following 255 shall be
set to a value <255.
The versionID shall change every time the content of a message
change. Changes of the message management container only
shall not cause a change of the versionID. If for example only the
message expiry time in the message management container is
changed, the versionID remains unchanged.
To avoid ambiguous situations when a wrap around occurs, the
following two rules apply:
- Not more than one version of a message shall be on air in a ser-
vice component at the same time within a service with identical
service ID.
- The message expiry time has to be set in an appropriate way.
If a message with the same messageID, but a lower version num-
ber is received, a wrap around has occurred if the expiry time of
the last received message is later.
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Name Type Multiplicity Description
messageExpiryTime DateTime 1 If the current time is later than the messageExpiryTime, the mes-
sage shall be considered as invalid and the TPEG Client device
shall therefore not present it to the user anymore. When the valid-
ity of the message contents for the user is to be maintained, the
TPEG Server shall send the
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