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European SDR for wireless in joint security operations

EULER project

Euler consortium

EULER general presentation

Goal

• 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.

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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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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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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.

Interoperability

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Drivers – Mobile broadband for PSC

• Euler provides wireless broadband networking

capabilities for security and resque personnel

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Approach

• The EULER-project will

– propose a new high-data-rate waveform for

emergency and security operations,

– strengthen and mature ongoing efforts in

Europe in the field of SDR standardization,

– provide proof-of-concept waveform

implementation and portability on several

software defined radio platforms and

– realize an integrated demonstrator targeted

towards end-users.8

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Project structure

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Community

• The EULER -project gathers

– major industrial players in Europe in the field

of wireless systems communication

integration and software defined radio as

well as

– academic research institutes and

– is supported by a strong group of end-users.

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End user involvement

• The methodology that the EULER consortium intends to follow regarding end-users

consultation and requirements collection:

– a survey of each end-user's current communications services and level of

knowledge of emerging relevant technologies.

– followed by the presentation of a cross-border crisis scenario that is based on a

real past event, but customized specifically for each end-user.

– The end-user's requirements regarding communications interoperability (both

at the technical and the operational/procedural level) would then be collected

using a multiple-choice questionnaire.

– The results would then be consolidated and harmonized across all the members

of the end-users committee and used as guidelines for the security research

activities inside the EULER project.

• We expect to repeatedly animate these end-user interactions 3 times per year,

each time refining the questionnaire to better understand your present and future

needs

• At the end of the EULER project an end-users workshop will be realized, where the

results of the end-user surveys will be presented, together with a demonstration of

the EULER project's technical achievements.11

Capture the user requirements

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Define the system architecture

• Transfer the end user requirements into

technical requirements

• Provide the definition of the communication

system architecture:– high-level protocols,

– services and

– interfaces to integrate heterogeneous networks.

• Provide supporting waveform functional

requirements

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Define the 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 P&GS information and communication assurance

requirements the constraints on the architecture of the SDR

embedded platform

– define architectural strategies to answer them, prototype and integrate them

• Provide a wideband flexible RF frontend and power amplifier,

• Investigate and evaluate the strategies for highly-optimized ESRA

implementation, and perform its integration on the SDR platforms.

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Define the SDR platforms

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SDR digital hardware supplier Radio front-end

provider

Operating Environment

provider

ESRA std recommendations SDR platform

provider

Define the waveform

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• SDR waveform design, specification and

development for two high data rate

waveforms according to a common

architecture provided by ESRA

System integration

• Gather all the necessary equipments and integrate

them by carrying out the required engineering

operations, in order to obtain an infrastructure of

heterogeneous wireless networks which will be used in

WP7 to demonstrate at small scale:

– The added value of an ESRA standardized SDR concept to

achieve end-to-end interoperability.

– The feasibility of a high data-rate security waveform.

• Provide technical and engineering support in order to

maintain the SDR/COTS based wireless network during

the performance of the use cases or demonstration

scenarios

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EULER Demonstration

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Dissemination• Transform the vision of the project into reality by communications,

standardisation, education and marketing.

• Push forward the improvement of Public & Governmental Safety wireless

communication systems towards evolvement, interoperability, and

openness while providing information assurance.

• Attract interest in the community by

– Shaping perspectives for implied new operational capabilities, and highlight

them with a system demonstrator.

– Shaping perspectives on benefits for adoption of EULER demonstrated

technology.

– Providing the information to E.U level stakeholders and end-users in a

coordinated fashion.

• Identify and roadmap complementary actions to push Euler results to

standardisation roads

– Existing specifications OMG-SDR, SCA

– ETSI SDR Group, SDR Forum, ESRA

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EULER Timeline

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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 comms

(FI)

– University of Budapest (HU)

– Supélec-Rennes (Fr)

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Thanks!

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Questions?