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Similar to the public mobile communications network, the trunking communications network
is also developed from the analog technology to the digital technology and from only having
voice services to having voice and data services. The 1G trunking communications network is
an analog system that uses FDMA and provides only voice services. The 2G trunking
communications network is a digital system that uses TDMA and provides only limited data
rates (lower than 50 kbit/s) in addition to voice services. The 2G trunking communications
network can also provide some basic data services, such as the data query and small-sized file
and image transmission, but cannot provide services, such as video intercom and video
surveillance.
With the service development of trunking users and improvement of the communications
technologies, trunking users are showing an increasing demand for new services such as the
video, multimedia, and high-speed mobile broadband. However, the first- and
second-generation trunking communications networks cannot meet requirements due to
technology limitations. The 3G public mobile communications system can provide the mobile
data rates of 2 Mbit/s in the downlink and 384 kbit/s in the uplink. Although the 3G-based
digital trunking system can provide certain video and multimedia capabilities and has
achieved some success, providing PTT, mobile broadband, and video services anytime and
anywhere still cannot be achieved due to limited data bandwidths.
The MIMO- and OFDM-based LTE mobile communications technology provides high
spectral efficiency and supports the peak rate of 150 Mbit/s in the downlink and the peak rate
of 50 Mbit/s in the uplink. This brings real innovation for mobile broadband. MIMO is short
for multiple-input multiple-output. OFDM is short for orthogonal frequency division
multiplexing. The large-scale deployment and mature application of the LTE network
provides a basis for the combination of mobile broadband and professional trunking
communications and the implementation of broadband trunking communications.
With the rapid development of the mobile Internet and the wide application of data services,
broadband has become the development trend of all radio communications systems.
According to the conclusion in TWC 2012, TErrestrial Trunked RAdio (TETRA) and critical
communication need to be combined with the LTE in the future. Therefore, the evolution to
the LTE becomes the development trend of the TRS.
4G MBB
trunking system
4G mobile broadband
All IP and flat architecture
3G digital
trunking system Excellent performance
2G digital trunking Rich and integrated
system 3G and digital service on one platform
Analog trunking All IP platform Open platform
system High voice quality High voice quality
Circuit switched
Multiple channels Data services Rich media services (PTV)
Circuit switched
Digital technique Picture and low bit rate High security and privacy
Multiple channels
TDMA video
FDMA LiTRA
TruStar
Specialized department
TETRA
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The PTT can be used as a distinctive service for the public mobile communications network.
It brings the following benefits:
Meet the requirements of fashion people on multi-party chat and communications.
Improve the average revenue per user (ARPU) and reduce the off-net customer ratio.
Help carriers develop the enterprise and government users.
Maximize the use of investment in live networks and increase revenue.
Among public network carriers, Nextel in the United States is the most successful one that
implements the PTT services. Nextel began to use the iDEN technology since 1995 to enable
the large-scale commercial use of PTT services. This helps combine the digital cellular and
intercom with the text and digit. The successful operation of the PTT services provides better
performance in the increase of the user number and the ARPU value, and in user loyalty.
In a public mobile communications market that is stepping into the 4G era, the PTT services
will be one of the most important services that can attract users. PTT services can also help
carriers explore high profit markets.
In compliance with the development trend of the digital TRS, Huawei develops the
LTE-based broadband TRS. The LTE PTT solution provides trunking services on LTE
networks by adding a PTT server and related terminals to carriers' existing networks based on
the standard LTE network.
The solution has the following key features:
High performance
Broadband and video
Open standard
Open API and rich applications
VPN (public enterprise network) and low network construction and maintenance costs
Professional trunking service quality assurance (priority and resource reservation)
Thanks to the flattened architecture of the LTE network and broadband-based air interface
design, the call setup time and E2E delay are greatly reduced. Like traditional trunking,
Huawei LTE PTT can provide better performance experience. Based on the standard evolved
multimedia broadcast/multicast service (eMBMS) feature of the LTE, LTE PTT can provide
large group calls with unlimited number of users.
Huawei draws lessons from and inherits 2G/3G trunking R&D experience and achievements
during the R&D, and provides comprehensive traditional trunking service functions in LTE
PTT.
Based on the high spectrum efficiency and bandwidth of the LTE network, LTE PTT can
provide PTT video intercom, mobile video surveillance, large file transfer, remote assistance,
and mobile dispatch consoles.
By adding PTT servers and terminals supporting PTT services to the standard LTE network,
the LTE PTT solution can provide trunking services. The LTE PTT solution can provide more
optional trunking services by adding other applications to the basic network. For example, the
dispatch console provides trunking dispatch console services and the LBS Server provides
positioning services.
Huawei LTE PTT broadband trunking solution’s network architecture is shown as follows.
Figure 2-2 Network Architecture of Huawei LTE PTT broadband trunking solution
PTT (single call) < 0.8 (accounting for < 0.2 (accounting for < 0.4
95% of the calls) 95% of the calls)
PTT (group call) < 0.8 (accounting for < 0.2 (accounting for < 0.4
95% of the calls) 95% of the calls)
PTV (video < 0.8 (accounting for < 0.2 (accounting for < 0.5
intercom) 95% of the calls) 95% of the calls)
When only voice services are used, the PTT single call and group call setup time reaches 800
ms, PTT is achieved, the floor application time reaches 200 ms during a call, and the delay
can hardly be sensed. In addition, the E2E voice delay also can be lower than 400 ms.
When video intercom is used, a call can be set up within 800 ms and the E2E delay can be
lower than 500 ms.
The performance of the LTE PTT broadband trunking system is as good as the traditional
trunking system and meets the strict requirements of professional users.
Item Specifications
Number of registered Trunking users 100,000
Number of concurrent online Trunking users 80,000
Number of registered Trunking user groups 10,000
Number of users in a Trunking user group (unicast) 300 per group
Number of users in a Trunking user group (multicast) 1000 per group
The PTT server uses the extensible Fusion Engine platform and extensible software
architecture of Huawei to improve the system capacity based on the service development and
customer requirements in the future.
Follows Moore's Law so that keeping sync fast-paced IT industry High extensibility
Convergence
Infrastructure convergence
Multi-service convergence
Convergence of CT, IT and IP technologies
Easy to deploy
Support 800mm/1000mm depth of cabinet servers
Support ETSI wide temperature range (long-term 0~45 ℃),
Support CO/DC deployment standard
High Bandwidth and Access Capabilities to Remove Bottlenecks of Data Plane Loads
FusionEngine adopts a high-speed serial connection and switching structure.
FusionEngine provides an access bandwidth of 40 Gbit/s, which is scalable to 100
Gbit/s to 200 Gbit/s.
Currently LTE PTT solution uses FE8002(3U) as shown in Figure 2-4, Figure 2-5 & Figure
2-6. The related specification is shown in Table 2-3.
Item Specifications
Item Specifications
The HME is a multi-platform audio and video engine. The video engine component of the
HME supports various resolutions in H.264 format and functions, such as collection, display,
transcoding, network transmission, and encryption. In addition, the video engine features high
quality and low overhead, and supports software and hardware coding.
The video engine can provide high-definition (HD) images based on the intelligent image
recognition capability and intelligent compression algorithm.
The video engine reaches the low delay using the non-delay video pre-analysis algorithm,
low-delay code rate allocation algorithm, slice-level transcoding technology, and dynamic
jitter buffer technology.
The video engine has three key network adaptive technologies: network detection, dynamic
redundancy, and automatic rate selection.
In addition, the video engine can reduce the code rate to save the bandwidth when the image
becomes static. The video engine can also monitor the CPU usage. If the CPU processing
capability is insufficient, values of the communication parameters can be automatically
reduced.
Through the preceding technologies, the HME can encode and decode 720P@15fps video
streams when the bandwidth is 1 Mbit/s.
The HME can support the Intelligent Optimization System (IOS) platform, but applications on the LTE
PTT client do not support the IOS platform.
Based on the video intercom, the LTE PTT can provide video and image transmission
between a UE and the dispatch console. The dispatch console can use the UE as a mobile
surveillance camera to implement random and flexible monitoring and information obtaining
at any time.
Management of the trunking VPN in the LTE PTT system is divided into two levels:
Management of the entire system: It is implemented by carriers, including user
management and enterprise trunking VPN management.
Management of the enterprise trunking VPN: It is implemented by the administrator of
the enterprise VPN.
System Add, delete, modify, and query trunking users and the
Management dispatch console.
Add, delete, modify, and query enterprise information.
Add, delete, modify, and query enterprise members.
Add, delete, modify, and query enterprise groups.
Modify service configurations.
Maintain the client version.
Query and modify enterprise administrator information.
Bind enterprise-associated IP addresses.
Check enterprise statistical reports.
Figure 2-9 shows the interface for a trunking single call. In most cases, common intelligent
terminals have no dedicated PTT keys. Therefore, users need to use the virtual PTT keys on
the touchscreen to apply for the floor and answer a call. The keys in different colors indicate
the status and floor status of a call.
Figure 2-10 shows the video intercom terminal interface and operation experience of a single
call.
Figure 2-10 Video intercom terminal interface and operation experience of a single call
terminals from various types of terminals. Alternatively, they can use their original terminals
to save costs.
Customers can purchase various mature terminals from the markets, including:
Common mainstream smartphones
High-end light, slim, and fashionable terminals
Professional three-proofing terminals with related peripheral devices
A professional trunking terminal can provide the dedicated PTT keys, group selection button,
high-capacity battery that supports a long battery life, IP protection, and crash-proof
(MIL810C/D/E), which enable such a terminal to rival a traditional trunking terminal.
Figure 2-11 Motorola TC55 three-proofing LTE terminal (700 MHz frequency band)
3 Solution Development
The hardware-based E2E encryption feature is a customized feature. It is determined based on project
requirements.
Encryption Path
eNodeB eNodeB
Core Network
Encryption UE Encryption UE
Voices, videos, and SMs are encrypted on any devices and links in the entire system, and
therefore cannot be intercepted.
4 Application Case
Huawei provides the LTE PTT solution for Vodafone in WMC 2014. In WMC, Huawei shows
the LTE PTT solution as a Vodafone LTE trunking solution and enable customers, such as the
Vodafone chief technology officer (CTO) and senior government officials, to experience the
service.
Huawei LTE PTT solution is the only one PTT solution that supports video intercom in WMC
2014. With its excellent performance, good experience, and clear and smooth video, the
solution impresses Vodafone senior officers, government customers, and other visitors to the
WMC.
The rapid development and wide and in-depth application of mobile broadband services,
smartphones, and the mobile Internet bring huge impacts and also great opportunities of
transformation and upgrade to traditional industries and applications including the trunking
communications industry.
After years of utilization experience and service development requirements, users in the
traditional TRSs have strong demands on the following parts:
Various communication services (for example, video services)
High-speed and ready-to-use mobile broadband services
Rich and complete data services
Various and cost-effective terminals on which software can be installed to expand
functions
Open, customizable, and extendable network and system platforms
However, the traditional TRSs can provide the date rate only of lower than 50 kbit/s due to
outdated technologies and can barely support the most basic applications, such as data query
data and text. The LTE network is mature and widely used, which provides a basis for the
fulfillment of the preceding demands. The LTE network uses the latest mobile
communications technologies. With the latest technologies, the LTE network can provide a
maximum downlink data rate of 150 Mbit/s and a maximum uplink data rate of 75 Mbit/s
with a bandwidth of 20 MHz. In addition, the LTE network has high spectral efficiency and
perfect QoS assurance mechanisms, and therefore can carry real-time services, such as voice
and video services. Therefore, it has become the latest development trend for customers to
construct a professional TRS based on the LTE network to integrate the advantages of the
TRS and LTE network and provide a new driving force for trunking communications.
To follow this trend, Huawei provides the LTE-based professional trunking communications
solution, LTE PTT. The LTE PTT solution can provide mobile broadband, group voice call,
and group video call services for a UE in a network at the same time. As an open platform and
API, the solution allows users to perform customization and application extension. In addition,
to improve the performance and capacity of the LTE PTT system, the LTE network needs to
be optimized to rival the professional trunking communications system.
As the new-generation broadband TRS, the LTE PTT system provides new energy and vitality
for trunking communications based on the LTE technology and provides better assurance for
users' service development and success.