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Submission Title: [Introduction to IEEE 802.15 Positive Train Control Interest Group]Date Submitted: [13 October, 2011]Source: [Jon Adams] Company [Independent]Address [12023 N 62nd St, Scottsdale AZ, 85254 USA]Voice:[+1 415.683.0213], FAX: [Add FAX number], E-Mail:[jonadams@ieee.org]

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Inaugural Telecon STDS-802-15-PTC Interest Group

Jon AdamsIndependent

Interim Chair

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Agenda

• Introductions• Roll Call - please email (either during or shortly after the

meeting) your attendance to me: jonadams@ieee.org• Reminder of IEEE P&P and Patent Policy and call for Potentially

Essential Patents. Please see http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/15/pub/Rules.html and http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt before the call.

• Efforts to pursue before November IEEE Atlanta meeting– Reminder of dates for registration and hotel availability– Scheduling of sessions at Atlanta– Differences between amendments and new standards– The IEEE 802 way: Project Authorization Requests (PAR), the Five Criteria (5C), the

process for moving from Interest Group to Study Group to Task Group to ratified output• Review and comment on landing page

– http://www.ieee802.org/15/pub/IGptc.html• Any other business

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Why Are We Here?

• PTC has four primary components– Equipment deployed on the locomotive/train – Equipment deployed trackside– Equipment deployed at a remotely located

control center– A bi-directional wireless data link that links all

these elements. It is this component upon which the Interest Group shall focus.

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Why IEEE 802?

• Long (31 years and counting) and successful history of creating robust and well deployed wired and wireless standards

• Formal, coordinated, consensus-based and open process

• Participation is by individual contributor, not by company• Six face to face meetings per year to allow sufficient

vetting and promote standard development• Voting rights maintained only through active participation• Broad international participation

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Some of IEEE 802 Efforts

• IEEE 802.1      Bridging (networking) and Network Management• IEEE 802.2      Link Layer Control• IEEE 802.3      Ethernet• IEEE 802.5      MAC layer for Token Ring• IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n/… Wireless LAN (WLAN) & Mesh (Wi-Fi certification)• IEEE 802.15     Wireless PAN• IEEE 802.16     Broadband Wireless Access (WiMAX certification)• IEEE 802.17     Resilient packet ring• IEEE 802.18     Radio Regulatory TAG• IEEE 802.19     Coexistence TAG• IEEE 802.20     Mobile Broadband Wireless Access• IEEE 802.21     Media Independent Handoff• IEEE 802.22     Wireless Regional Area Network• IEEE 802.23     Emergency Services

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Why 802.15?• IEEE 802.15 Wireless PAN Working Group

– IEEE 802.15.2 WIEEE 802.15 and 802.11 coexistence– IEEE 802.15.4 (2006)

• Used by the ZigBee Alliance, ISA, Wireless HART, IETF (6LoWPAN), others

– IEEE 802.15.4g Smart Utility Network• In-process effort to enable wireless connectivity for next generation of smart utility meters (electricity, gas,

water, heat) with utilities• Operates on licensed or license-free bands, wide variety of channel widths, bandwidths, data rates• Ranges to 10’s of km

– IEEE 802.15.4k Low-Energy Critical Infrastructure Monitoring• PHY amendment to 802.15.4 to facilitate point to multi-thousands of points communications for critical

infrastructure monitoring devices (bridges, buildings, canals, etc.)• Addresses application's user needs of minimal network infrastructure• Enables the collection of scheduled and event data from a large number of non-mains powered end points

that are widely dispersed, or are in challenging propagation environments• To facilitate low energy operation necessary for multi-year battery life, amendment minimizes network

maintenance traffic and device wake durations• Ranges to 10’s of km

– IEEE 802.15.4m TV White Space Amendment• Chartered to specify new PHY to add functionality to the existing standard 802.15.4-2006 MAC meeting TV

white space regulatory requirements • enables operation in the available TV white space• supporta typical data rates in the 40 kbits per second to 2000 kbits per second range• Designed for optimal and power efficient device command and control applications

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Why IEEE 802.15?

• PTC overview at July 2011 IEEE 802.11 WNG and 802.15 WNG sessions– Entitled: PTC Radio and System Architecture (11-

11-1032-00-0wng-positive-train-control-radio-and-system-architecture.ppt), Jia-Ru Li, Lilee Systems

• 802.15 voted to approve formation of an interest group to explore further

• First step to explore alignment with 15.4k LECIM

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Challenging Propagation Environment

• In the US, PTC allocated 220 – 222 MHz band (λ = 1.36 m) • High speed mobility environment

– 500 km/h locomotive to trackside (1000 km/h closing speed)• “Collector” atop locomotive

– Antenna on locomotive “roof”, 5m height above railtop– Roof 15 – 25 m long, 2.5 m wide, potentially 2km of metal-roofed cars ahead or behind

• Endpoints (Wayside Equipment)– Fixed equipment along the track, antennas may only a few meters high or pole-mounted up to 8-10

m• Base Station

– Network-connected base stations– Antennas may be on towers, buildings or other structures

• Track environment – extreme in every direction– Mountainous terrain, tunnels, open cuts, viaduct with sound walls– All of above but with horizontal curvature and rain sheeting down walls– Dead flat straight track, technically line-of-sight between collector/endpoint but very strong Rayleigh

fading due to strong reflection from rail/ground surface– Dense urban, non-line of sight, extreme multipath

• Distributed Power Unit (DPU)– Remote controlled locomotive(s) separated from the crewed lead locomotive, separation up to 3 km

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PTC Aspects 1

• Train-centric communications (locomotive/train is “center of universe”)• High reliability PHY link, fault-tolerant, error-correcting or at least error-

detecting• Intention that data carried may be “vital” (life/safety critical)• Strong link layer security features (flexible encryption, unique identity)• Data rates relatively low, depending on function (9.6k to 100’s of kbps)• Data communication speeds may be asymmetric• Propagation generally non-line of sight or close to ground, fade environment

often Rayleigh, exponents 2.6 (fixed to fixed) to 3.2 (fixed to mobile)• Range to 2x braking distance (3 - 15 km) in typical urban/suburban/rural

environments• Equivalent Radiated Power (ERP) (depending on antenna height, channel #,

region)• Operation in licensed US 220 – 222 MHz band (but not excluding others)

– Channel spacing 5 kHz, may be aggregated (by license)– Can support separate uplink and downlink bands (base and mobile)– Potential for adjacent/alternate channel interferers– Frequency agility may be useful

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PTC Aspects 2

• Absolute need for high-speed node mobility– Speeds up to 500km/h, closing speeds to 1000 km/h

• Latencies determined by stopping distance, order of 1 second sufficient

• Payloads from a few bytes for control/command to ability to transfer larger files with fragmentation for remote upgrade/maintenance

• Selectable QoS or communications priority may be useful• Wayside devices likely extremely power constrained (battery,

vibration, pressure, solar, other scavenging)• Current requirements up to 24 locomotives and 30 waysides on

one base station, but concept scales to dozens of devices per km of track

• Flexible enough to handle very rapidly changing network membership

• Time slotted and contention access periods necessary

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Other Potential Future Rail Environment Applications of 802.15 Standards

• Track and track infrastructure– Switch/turnout operation and position– Block occupancy– Damage to rails– Right of Way fouling– Perimeter monitoring– Bridge, viaduct, tunnel, culvert, etc.– Highway / Rail grade crossing

• Rolling Stock Defects– Defect detection (hot box, dragging equipment, high/wide, etc.)

• Signals– Signal indication– Signal function– Grade crossing signaling and warning equipment

• Maintenance of Way Vehicle– On/off rail status– Position, direction, speed– Positive control?

• Maintenance workers• Rest-of-train car-to-car communication networks

– Hot box, brake line pressure, end of train marker, etc.

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Standards Development Lifecycle

• Idea or concept to be standardized, may be broad or specific

• Need IEEE Sponsor– in this case, it’s IEEE Computer Society and IEEE 802

Local and Metropolitan Area Network Standards Committee

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Process (in shorthand)

• Propose the idea (PTC proposal was done at the last IEEE 802 Plenary in both 802.11 and 802.15 WNG sessions)

• Get recognized officially– Interest Group (IEEE 802.15 PTC, formed under the 802.15 Working Group

(WG)• Interim Chair: Jon Adams, Independent• Interim Vice Chair: Dr Mark Hartong• Interim Secretary – any volunteers?

– Meeting minutes, attendance-keeping, etc.

– Study Group• Develop Project Authorization Request and complete the “Five Criteria” document• Get PAR done, approved by WG, and submitted to 802 Executive Committee

– Task Group• Once TG is formed, group may “do work” and move along path of creating a draft

standard• Once draft standard is successfully balloted and approved by TG and WG, submit draft

to 802 EC for approval

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Next Steps for Participation

• Register for the Atlanta Plenary 7-11 November

• Hotel rooms are filling up

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75th IEEE 802.15 WPAN MEETINGHyatt Regency Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, USANovember 6-11, 2011

The graphic below describes the weekly session of the IEEE P802.15 WG in graphic format.

SUNDAY

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TG4e Task Group 15.4 MAC enhancements WNG 802.15Wireless Next Generation Standing Committee

TG4f RFID Task Group 4f-RFID TUT IEEE 802 Tutorials 1, 2, 3 and 4

TG4g SUN Task Group 4g-SMART UTILITY NETWORKS EC 802 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

TG4J MBANj Study Group on 15.4 Medical Band Amendment AC 802.15 ADVISORY COMMITTEE

TG4k LECIM Study GROUP - LOW ENERGY CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE MONITORING P&P Standing Committee on WG Rules

TG4m 4TV Task Group on a TVWS amendment for 15.4 SG PAC Study Group on Personal Space Communication

TG6 Task Group Body Area Networks IG PTC KEY MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL Interest Group

IG KMP KEY MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL Interest Group IG SRU POSITIVE TRAIN CONTROL INTEREST GROUP

IG THZ INTEREST GROUP-TERRAHERTZ

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Advisory Committee 1.0 Advisory Committee 20 B - - - 1Working Group/Joint MTGs 2.3 Working Group Plenaries 150 C - 1 1 1

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Next Meeting

• 7-Day requirement on notification of meetings

• Have already reserved next Wednesday 19 October in case we want to move earlier in week

• Weekly meetings until Atlanta

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