www.euler-project.eu

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

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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

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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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