Title: Telecommunications for Disaster Relief TDR: Technical requirements and standards
1 Telecommunications for Disaster Relief
(TDR)Technical requirements and standards
- P.A.Probst
- Senior Telecommunication Adviser, Swisscom
- Chairman SG16/ITU-T
2Summary
- TDR scope
- Trends
- Role of standards
- First steps and progress report
- Conclusions on future work
3 TDR scope (1)
- During natural and manmade disasters, rapid
organization and co-ordination of recovery
operations is essential to save lives and restore
the community infrastructure - Recovery operations depend upon ready
availability and access to telecommunication
resources to support urgent communications - Telecommunication networks often experience
severe stress due to damaged infrastructure
and/or very high traffic loads - a
4TDR Scope (2)Telecommunication networks normal
operating conditions
Customers
MM SA
Voice SA
Data SA
IP-based Networks
Dedicated Networks
CS-Networks
5TDR Scope (3)Telecommunication networks
operations in crisis situation
Customers
TDR-Users
Voice SA
MM SA
Data SA
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IP-based Networks
!
!
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Dedicated Networks
CS-Networks
6TDR Scope (4) Telecommunication networks in
crisis situation category of customers and their
needs ?
Citizens
NGOs
Citizens
Authorities
7 TDR scope (5)
- There is a need to provide specific resources for
authorized users (e.g. governments, fire
brigades, police, medical services, etc) - The development and standardization of emergency
telecommunication service capabilities provides
the means for disaster recovery activities to
effectively communicate - Specific standardization activities are therefore
required to efficiently support these
requirements - ITU-T can take advantage of its unique
industry-government environment to produce
relevant Recommendations
8 TDR scope (6)
- Concept of Emergency telecommunications,
- ETS and TDR
- Access for the public to emergency utilities like
police, medical and rescue services? Citizen
Emergency Service (911, 112, ) - Provision of telecommunications capabilities on a
per occasion basis for disaster relief and
mitigation? Telecommunications for Disaster
Relief (TDR) - Capabilities of public telecommunications
services (supplementary services) made available
to national authorities to facilitate
communications between and from authorized users
in specific situations (emergency and disaster
situation, emergency preparedness, )? Emergency
Telecommunications Services (ETS)
9TDR trends
- Situation in the past-TDR are/were based on
PSTN, ISDN, PLMN, 2G-mobile- Circuit switched
technology- Voice centric applications-
National solutions- Limited inter-working - Present trends- Use the possibility of
multimedia (video)- New applications/services
based on mobility, location-based
information,- Evolution to IP-based platforms-
Needs for global solutions (international)-
Improve inter-working between platforms
(public/private)- .
10Key issues for TDR standardization
- Customers- segmentation- requirements
- Services and applications (incl QoS)- use of
existing facilities- extension (new needs?) - Network capabilities for TDR support
- Inter-working at- Service and application
level- Network level - Regulatory framework
11The role of standards for TDR
- Inter-working, compatibility, evolution, economy
of scale, are the main drivers for the
development of aFamily of standards to ensure
global interoperability of emergency
telecommunications - - maintaining foundation of existing national
capabilities,- enabling new national
capabilities to be established,- expanding
communications internationally on priority
basis,- mapping ETS indicators code at national
gateways,- facilitating orderly evolution to
advancing technologies and enhanced
capabilities.
12First steps towards TDR standardization in ITU-T
(1)
- Contributions submitted to several Study Groups
to develop Recs on ETS/TDR (2001) - The need for improved coordination and liaison
with other SDOs was recognized - Experiences made during the events in 2001/2002
- Projects on Security (SG17) and NGN (SG13)
- Needs expressed by the ITU-T membership, to
develop a global and harmonized set of standards
for ETS/TDR capabilities in close co-operation
with other SDOs
13First steps towards TDR standardization in ITU-T
(2)
- Development and approval of a Question in SG16 (Q
I/16 on TDR approved in October 2002) - Questionnaire on the use of public telecom
services for emergency and disaster relief
operations (TSB-Circular 132/15-11-2002) - Workshop on TDR (February 2003)
- Development of first Recs (E.106/SG2, draft Rec.
F.706/SG16) - Creation of an informal coordination entity TDR
Partnership Coordination Panel (TDR PCP, endorsed
by TSAG in February 2003)
14First steps towards TDR standardization in ITU-T
(3)
- TDR Partnership Coordination Panel
MandateMonitor the progress of the technical
standardisation work in general and in particular
its mapping with the requirements of the
different categories of users - Address
high-level coordination issues between the
partners involved- Develop and maintain the
links with entities not traditionally involved in
the development of standards- Report on the
progress to TSAG
15First steps towards TDR standardization in ITU-T
(4)
- TDR Partnership Coordination PanelSummary of the
results of the PCP-TDR Meeting in Geneva (May
2004 during SG4)- ETS and TDR concepts
discussed and proposal to consider them
separately,- Detailed TDR/ETS aspects best dealt
with by the experts in the specialised SGs,-
Lack of overall coordination question for the
various SGs,- Specific security requirements for
TDR/ETS over and above those of the service
capabilities,- Concept of interworking of ENIs
(ETS National Implementation) would be a basis
for ITU-T work,- Need to improve further the
definitions and the concepts of TDR and ETS.
16TDR organizations involved in the development of
standards
- ITU-T SGs involved SG2, SG3, SG4, SG9, SG11,
SG12, SG13, SG15, SG16, SG17, SSG - ITU- D SG 2
- ITU-R SG4, SG9
- IETF
- ETSI
- TIA
- ASTAP
- UN WGET
- NGOs
-
17TDR Standardization progress report (1)
- GENERAL
- The importance of global international standards
in the area of ETS/TDR has been recognized, - Since various players are involved, there is a
need for coordination in the development of
ETS/TDR standards, - Considering the evolution of telecommunication
networks (IP, Multimedia, Mobile, etc) a
redesign of the traditional systems supporting
TDR capabilities seems to be necessary, - The understanding of the needs of the various
users has been improved, - Refinement of the ETS and TDR concepts,
- Creation of an open informal platform to
contribute to the development of TDR/ETS
Standards (PCP-TDR), - Initialization of the work in the relevant ITU-T
SGs, - Approval of first TDR relevant ITU-T Recs,
- Considerations on future work in view of the new
SG structure.
18TDR Standardization progress report (2)
- How to structure future ETS/TDR work?
- TDR-PCP views are that,
- The Definition of TDR and ETS needs further
refinements, - There is a need for a specific TDR/ETS overall
coordination question, - The detailed TDR/ETS aspects are best dealt with
by the experts in each Study Group
specialization, - The TDR-PCP needs a parent SG,
- The TDR-PCP suggested to include the general
requirements and coordination as part of a
network (or NGN) SG. - TSAG concluded that,
- ETS/TDR specific aspects will be dealt with in
the specialized SGs, - Three possible options for the SG responsible for
general TDR requirements SG M, SG K, SG I, - PCP-TDR will report to the SG that defines the
general TDR requirements.
19Conclusions Key factors for success and
challenges
- Understand users requirements
- Identify the regulatory framework
- Develop a set of global and compatible Standards
- Cost aspects
- Evolutionary approach
- National sovereignty
- Partnership between Member States, private
sector, GOs and NGOs