PROJECT MESA

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PROJECT MESA Broadband Mobility for Emergency
and Safety Applications SC Presentation Saint
Paul de Vence, 1st November 2006
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Summary
MESA Mobility for Emergency and Safety
Applications
Project Name
MESA overview
Brief History, Objectives, Members and
activities, MESA structure
State of Requirements (Outcome of the SSG SA
users activities), Main MESA Technical System
Features, System of Systems Reference Model
Architectures
Activities done and in progress
Current status, Work Items
Specification Development Plan
Some guidelines to participate in MESA
How to participate
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Brief History

• Project MESA is a transatlantic public safety
  partnership between ETSI (Europe) and TIA (N.
  America) that represents the first international
  initiative to involve users and organizations
  from the Public Protection, Disaster Response and
  Civil Defence sectors
• In May 2000 ETSI and TIA signed in Washington DC
  an agreement (the PPA - Partnership Project
  Agreement) to work collaboratively by providing a
  forum in which the key players can contribute
  actively to the elaboration of MESA
  specifications
• In January 2001 the current partnership agreement
  was ratified in the City of Mesa (Arizona)
• Projects name given in recognition of the
  signature city
• MESA Mobility for Emergency and Safety
  Applications
• Project MESA also supports the ITU in its
  worldwide effort to harmonize PPDR communications
  as documented in ITU-R Report M.2033

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MESA Objectives

• MESA aims at producing globally applicable
  technical specifications for digital mobile
  broadband technology, aimed initially at the
  sectors of public safety and disaster response
  allowing a coordination of regional/international
  responses to emergencies, disasters, monitoring
  day-by-day and planned events services

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Members Activities

• Project MESA membership currently comprises about
  100 representatives
• national public safety organizations
• communications equipment users
• communications industry
• research organizations
• Academia
• Observers from Canada (TSACC) and Korea (TTA)
• Full affiliation list http//www.projectmesa.org/
  info/MESApeople.htm
• Any interested party from around the globe can
  actively participate in the Project MESA
  specification development process
• ETSI and TIA support the administrative needs
  while the technical work required to develop the
  Project MESA specifications is performed by
  members
• Members meet every 6 months (alternating between
  European and North American venues) to coordinate
  program activities and to review project
  documents for approval
• Between the meetings, members coordinate
  specification development and other activities
  primarily during phone conferences and through
  e-mail

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MESA Structure
Organizational Partners
MESA SC
(Steering Committee)
Liaison Standardization bodies, other Projects
Service Specification Group
Technical Specification Group
Services Applications
System
SSG SA
TSG SYS
System Technical Specifications
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Statement of user Requirements (SoR)

• Developed within the user-focused Service
  Specification Group Services and Applications
  (SSG-SA) of MESA and approved by the Project MESA
  Steering Committee (SC) in 2002
• Intended to describe and define functional and
  operational user requirements, capabilities,
  applications and scenarios that involve broadband
  air interface data rates
• documents the details of PPDR scenarios,
  describing the types of information that are
  routinely required to support PPDR activities
• technology needs within Public Protection
  Disaster Relief (PPDR) discipline
• Emphasis on applications identified by
  users/agencies as key requirements, but which
  current applied technology may not fully deliver
• To view the latest SoR document, please visit
  http//www.projectmesa.org/ftp/Specifications/

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Main MESA Technical System Features

• In order to fulfil user requirements MESA system
  must be
• reliable
• able to ensure multiple levels of security and
  encryption
• easy and fast to deploy
• able to guarantee the requested QoS
• flexible
• adaptable
• reconfigurable
• scalable
• self-organizing
• interoperable with existing private and public
  infrastructures
• broadband
• mobile
• low power consumable

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System Reference Model Architecture
MESA as a System of Systems
Other
New Technology
Ad-hoc
Project MESA
New Technology
New Technology
Other
MESA Solution Space
Cellular (2, 2, 3G)
New Technology
B3G, 4G
New Technology
Mobile Broadband
New Technology
Trunked
New Technology

• Technical Fora
• Standardizationbodies
• Other Projects

Broadband
MESA Search Space
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Current Status

• 13 full meetings have taken place so far
  (including the current one)
• 6 in USA
• 7 in Europe
• Next meeting MESA 14
• Week of May 7th, 2007 in the USA
  (Seattle/Portland) hosted by Cingular Wireless
• 5 documents already approved
• 7 WIs in drafting stage
• http//www.projectmesa.org/ftp/SC/SC13_StPaul_de_V
  ence_2006/SC13_04.doc
• 2 Organizational Partners (TIA and ETSI)
• 2 observers (TTA and ISACC)
• 57 active individual members
• 36 public safety members
• http//www.projectmesa.org/ftp/SC/SC13_StPaul_de_V
  ence_2006/SC13_06 current membership.doc

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Participation (1)

• To be a member of MESA allows organizations to
  fully influence the work of the project by
  attending meetings and taking part in the voting
  process
• Participation in MESA is classified into 5
  categories
• Organizational Partnership
• Organizational Partnership is open to any
  Standards Development Organization, irrespective
  of its geographical location.
• Current Organizational Partners are ETSI and TIA
• Individual Membership
• To participate as Individual Member of Project
  MESA it is a pre-requisite the membership in an
  Organizational Partner
• Public Safety Membership
• Any legal entity which fulfils one of the
  following requisites
• is a governmental entity or
• is a private entity providing public safety
  services under contract to a governmental entity
  or
• is an association or consortium of governmental
  entities or
• is an association of representatives of
  governmental entities or
• otherwise represents governmental entities with
  the further provision that it is not a
  manufacturer of equipment or the holder of IPR
  that may fall within the scope of the MESA project

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Participation (2)

• Observership
• The status of Observer may be granted by the
  Organizational Partners to an organization, which
  has the qualifications to become a future
  Organizational Partner (see before)
• Observers are expected to contribute to the
  common objective of Project MESA and avoid
  duplication of work related to Project MESA.
• Organizations may apply to obtain Observership
  status by writing to any of the existing
  Organizational Partners.
• Guest
• The status of Guest may be granted for a limited
  period, by the Organizational Partners to an
  organization, which has the qualifications to
  become a future Individual Member (see above)
• Organizations may apply to obtain Guest status by
  writing to any of the existing Organizational
  Partners

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Thank you!
Project MESA http//www.projectmesa.org