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Thomas Wesenberg

Speaker of the GSM-R

Industry Group

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November 6th, 2012

development, return of experience, state of the art

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Agenda

1. GSM-R IG general update

2. Developing GSM-R specifications

3. Certification and authorisation process

4. GSM-R market penetration

5. Coverage level

6. Latest developments

7. ETCS over GPRS project

8. Current situation, short/mid term activities

9. Expected life cycle of GSM-R

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GSM-R IG general update

The GSM-R Industry Group has 9 members with rotating responsibilities.

• GSM-R MIG (Marketing Group)

– Speaker: Thomas Wesenberg Wenzel Elektronik

– Deputy: Corrado Brena Alstom

• GSM-R TIG (Technical Group)

– Speaker: Markus Myslivec Frequentis

– Deputy: Valerio Di Claudio SELEX Elsag

• Next planned change of speakers: April, 2013

• Quarterly regular IG meetings joint by ERA and UIC representatives

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Developing GSM-R specifications

ERA and UIC together with Railways and

Industry are pushing forward the harmonisation

and specification process

• GSM-R Baseline 0 revision 3 has been released

by ERA for European Countries.

• The parallel UIC specification EIRENE FRS 7.3.0 /

SRS 15.3.0 is also used in countries outside Europe.

• Possible feature candidates for the next baseline:

enhanced Railway Emergency Call, improved

Cell Reselection, ETCS over GPRS, revised

Quality of Service requirements, improvement

of border crossing specifications

- Economic evaluation of every feature to be

considered too

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CR and IR

CR = Change Request, IR = Implementation Report

PQM = PreQualification Management

MI = Mandatory for Interoperability

CCM = Change Control Management

PQM

(UIC supported

by ERA)

MI not MI

maintenance release

e.q. EIRENE 7.3.1/15.3.1

CCM

(ERA supported

by UIC, IG ...)

EIRENE

release update

Baseline update (e.q. b0r4) e.q. 7.4.0/15.4.0

or or main release

new Baseline (e.q. b1) e.q. 8.0.0/16.0.0

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Certification and authorisation process

EC decisions 2008/57/EC and CCS TSI 2012/88/EU guarantee

harmonization, interoperability, border crossing operation, open markets.

→ Interoperability test cases for cab radio, EDOR and SIM under

preparation by ERA

With a certification from a Notified Body on the interoperability constituents

(Cab Radios, EDOR (ETCS data only radio), SIM Cards) the certification

process should be fulfilled.

→ We experience tests being repeated at national level to achieve the

National Authority certification.

Goal: To have one certification from a Notified Body accepted by all Member

States. We strongly support the CER/UNIFE approach of ERA becoming

single issuing authority in Europe.

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• In Europe GSM-R is in operation on 70,000 km of track and

84,000 km more are planned to be covered in addition. *)

• GSM-R is expanding worldwide: 138,000 km are

planned to be covered outside of Europe. **)

• GPRS on GSM-R is in operation/planned in the following

European implementations (map = colored in green):

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic,

Denmark, Euro Tunnel, France, Ireland, Italy,

Lithuania, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Norway,

Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden,

Swiss and the UK.

*) UIC e-News 311

**) Kapsch CarrierCom, Nokia Siemens Networks

GSM-R market penetration

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For high quality voice and ETCS data service it is important to have

good GSM-R coverage.

EIRENE SRS 15.3.0: […] the coverage level is defined as the field

strength at the antenna on the roof of a train […]

• With baseline 0 Revision 3 the following values became MI

(Mandatory for Interoperability)

GSM-R coverage level

Speed (km/h) Level (dBm)

Voice and non-safety

critical data ≥ -98

ETCS levels 2/3 ≤ 280 ≥ -95

> 280 ≥ -92

-100

-95

-90

-85

-80

-75

-70

-65

-60

0 5 10 15 20 25 30

ETCS coverage level (dBm)

Voice coverage level (dBm)

Coverage Level in European Countries (UIC)

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Latest developments

The industry’s latest main developments are:

• IG is involved in the upcoming Baseline/EIRENE version

• Development towards IP, e. g. GPRS/EDGE, Rel. 4, SIP interface

• Involvement in EC’s TEN 3rd call project:

Develop ETCS over GPRS solution together with UIC, ERTMS Users

Group, UNISIG and Railways

Update GSM-R compatibility testing

Support ERA for baseline update

• GSM-R optimisation concerning the public network interference issue:

filters, new modules, improved GSM-R coverage

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• ETCS over GPRS Working Group in progress, currently Phase 1

3 Railways (RFF -2012, Network Rail -2013, Banedanmark 2014)

2 GSM-R European network suppliers (Kapsch CarrierCom, Nokia Siemens Networks)

5 EDOR / radio module providers (Alstom, Funkwerk, Selex Elsag, Siemens, Sierra

Wireless)

• GPRS/EDGE relevant Technical Features identified

• Traffic Model for testing in approval phase

• Test cases list in revision

• Test specification for EDOR functional validation started

• GSM-R IG is responsible for the elaboration of the engineering guidelines

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Current situation, short/mid term activities

GSM-R is successful, it’s up and running in most of the European

Countries, but

• the market is significantly slowing down because of the economic crisis.

• Decisions are frequently delayed, hindering long-term business planning.

The GSM-R industry is impacted by this.

Nevertheless, the GSM-R Industry Group members continuously

• participate in the ERA Control Group and the ERA CCS WP,

• have regular coordination meetings with the ERA GSM-R core team,

• are involved in the ERTMS MoU Steering committee.

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Expected life cycle of GSM-R

New upcoming technology with exponentially higher bandwidth encourages

railways to go for new operational applications.

• The GSM-R IG is convinced that a future technology will initially coexist

with the current technology for a decade or more.

• Coexistence with the future technology will be actively supported.

In the long term a smooth migration will occur.

The Industry Group is committed to long term support of GSM-R:

the GSM-R technology will be supported for at least a further 15 years.

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Thank you