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अक्टूबर 2021
October 2021
CAMTECH/S/PROJ/2021-22/SP6
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Foreword
Several Railway organizations around the world are looking to migrate from the existing
communication technologies to the advanced ones in order to meet their current and future
requirements. A series of transformational initiatives have been contemplated by Indian
Railways to bring big upward shift in Railway operations, passenger safety & security and
enhancing passenger satisfaction.
With expansion of operations and advent of high-speed trains, the requirement from the
wireless communication infrastructure to support modern signalling system and data centric
applications like real time video surveillance and passenger information system, Remote
monitoring and diagnostics of rolling stock etc. has also been arisen in Indian railways.
Therefore, development of Ultra-high-speed wireless communication corridor along IR's
network has been identified as one of the facilitator for transformation of IR.
CAMTECH has prepared this handbook, which covers Introduction and Overview of LTE,
LTE technology, LTE System Architecture & Components and Design & Deployment of LTE
in Indian Railways.
I hope that this handbook will be useful to S&T engineers and maintenance staff of Indian
Railways to get them acquainted with the LTE technology, LTE Network & its applications in
Indian Railways.
Preface
In Indian Railways, Intercommunication between Train Crew, Control office and Station
Master is critical for train operations and have stringent requirements for reliability,
availability, safety and security. Presently Mobile Train Radio communication (MTRC)
system, a digital wireless network based on GSM-R (Global System for Mobile
Communication-Railway) is being used to achieve this intercommunication. However, GSM
is a 2nd generation voice centric system with circuit switched technology and has hardly any
data handling capacity.
Long Term Evolution (LTE), also referred as 4G, is a fully packet-switched–based network
and is the latest mobile communication technology. With features like high data speed, Low
latency, Network reliability and Quality of Service, LTE is better suited for fulfilling the data
centric requirements and considering this, Indian Railways has decided to adopt and deploy
LTE across IR as next generation wireless communication technology.
CAMTECH has prepared this handbook with an objective to disseminate the information on
LTE technology, LTE Network & its applications in Indian Railways among S&T engineers
and maintenance staff of S&T department who deals with wireless communication.
This handbook covers Introduction and Overview of LTE, Future wireless communication
requirements of Indian Railways & FRMCS, GSM technology, LTE technology,
disadvantages of GSM and advantages of LTE over GSM, LTE System Architecture &
Components, Design, Deployment & Requirements of LTE in Indian Railways and other
important aspects. Figures and tables are also given for easy understanding of system
architecture and design.
Table of Contents
Foreword ..................................................................................................................................... i
Preface ....................................................................................................................................... ii
Table of Contents ...................................................................................................................... iii
Abbreviations ........................................................................................................................... vii
List of Figures........................................................................................................................... ix
List of Tables............................................................................................................................. xi
Disclaimer ................................................................................................................................ xii
1 Chapter ............................................................................................................................... 1
Introduction and Overview of LTE ........................................................................................... 1
1.1 Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 1
1.2 Evolution of LTE .................................................................................................................. 2
1.3 Overview of LTE .................................................................................................................. 3
2 Chapter ............................................................................................................................... 4
Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) ................................................................. 4
2.1 GSM - Overview ................................................................................................................... 4
2.2 GSM Network Architecture................................................................................................. 4
2.2.1 Mobile Station (MS) .........................................................................................................................5
2.2.2 Base Station Subsystem (BSS) .........................................................................................................5
2.2.3 Network Switching Subsystem (NSS) ..............................................................................................6
2.2.4 Operation Support Subsystem (OSS): ..............................................................................................8
3 Chapter ............................................................................................................................... 9
Global System for Mobile Communication-Railway................................................................ 9
(GSM-R) .................................................................................................................................... 9
3.1 Overview of GSM-R ............................................................................................................. 9
3.2 Special requirements of GSM-R Networks ........................................................................ 9
3.3 Features of GSM-R............................................................................................................. 10
3.4 Applications of GSM-R ...................................................................................................... 10
3.5 GSM-R Network Architecture .......................................................................................... 10
3.5.1 Mobile Station (MS) ....................................................................................................................... 11
3.5.2 Cab radio ....................................................................................................................................... 12
3.5.3 Dispatcher ...................................................................................................................................... 12
4 Chapter ............................................................................................................................. 13
Future wireless communication requirements of Indian Railways & FRMCS.................... 13
4.1 Next-generation wireless communication requirements of Indian Railways ................ 13
4.2 Future Railway Mobile Communication System (FRMCS) ........................................... 14
4.3 Railway Users of FRMCS .................................................................................................. 14
4.4 Requirements of FRMCS ................................................................................................... 15
4.5 Communication Requirements of IR through FRMCS .................................................. 15
4.5.1 Critical Communication Applications ............................................................................................ 16
4.5.2 Performance Communication Applications .................................................................................... 17
4.5.3 Business Communication Applications .......................................................................................... 18
4.5.4 Critical Support Applications ......................................................................................................... 18
4.5.5 Business Support Applications ....................................................................................................... 18
5 Chapter ............................................................................................................................. 22
LTE technology ....................................................................................................................... 22
5.1 Introduction of LTE technology ........................................................................................ 22
5.1.1 LTE Frame Structure ...................................................................................................................... 23
5.1.2 Spatial Multiplexing ....................................................................................................................... 24
5.1.3 Transmit Diversity .......................................................................................................................... 24
5.1.4 Link Adaptation .............................................................................................................................. 25
5.1.5 Rate Matching ................................................................................................................................ 25
5.1.6 LTE deployment methodology ....................................................................................................... 25
6 Chapter ............................................................................................................................. 27
LTE System Architecture & Components .............................................................................. 27
6.1 Architecture of LTE System .............................................................................................. 27
6.2 Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) .............................. 27
6.3 Evolved NodeB (eNB) ......................................................................................................... 28
6.3.1 Antenna .......................................................................................................................................... 29
6.3.2 Remote Radio Head (RRH) ............................................................................................................ 30
6.3.3 Baseband Unit (BBU) .................................................................................................................... 31
7 Chapter ............................................................................................................................. 36
LTE-R and Implementation of LTE on Indian Railways ...................................................... 36
7.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 36
7.2 LTE for Railways (LTE-R) ................................................................................................ 36
7.3 LTE System Architecture for Indian Railways ............................................................... 37
7.4 Applications of LTE in Indian railways ........................................................................... 38
7.5 Indian Railway Automatic Train Protection System (IRATP) ...................................... 39
7.6 Train Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) ...................................................................... 39
7.6.1 TCAS working over LTE ............................................................................................................... 40
8 Chapter ............................................................................................................................. 45
Design, Deployment & Requirements of LTE in Indian Railways ....................................... 45
8.1 Radio Network Planning .................................................................................................... 45
8.2 General Requirements of LTE System for Indian Railways .......................................... 45
8.3 Specific Requirements of LTE System Architecture for Indian Railways .................... 46
8.4 Design, Deployment & Requirements of eNodeB ............................................................ 47
8.4.1 Cell Range and Inter eNodeB distance ........................................................................................... 47
8.4.2 Site Deployment Scenario of eNodeB (Schematic) ........................................................................ 48
8.4.3 Site Deployment Scenario of eNodeB (Actual Outdoor) .............................................................. 48
8.4.4 Simulations for deployment of eNodeB ......................................................................................... 49
8.4.5 Base Station Antenna Requirements .............................................................................................. 50
8.4.6 Tower Requirements ...................................................................................................................... 50
9 Chapter ............................................................................................................................. 53
User Equipment (UE), On-board Equipment and Dispatcher System Design Requirements
53
9.1 Cab Radio System ............................................................................................................... 53
1. LTE Router/ Modem (Central Control Unit) .................................................................................. 53
2. Control Panel (MMI) & Display Unit ............................................................................................ 53
3. Rail Handset ................................................................................................................................... 53
4. Rail Rooftop Antenna (To be mounted on the roof top of the drivers cabin) ................................. 54
5. Dual Redundant Power Supply ...................................................................................................... 54
9.1.1 Required features of Cab Radio System ......................................................................................... 54
9.1.2 Required features of Rail Rooftop Low profile Antenna ............................................................... 56
9.1.3 Required features of MCPTT Handset ........................................................................................... 57
10 Chapter ............................................................................................................................. 58
Numbering Scheme for Mobile Communication Network (LTE) for Indian Railways ....... 58
10.1 General Numbering scheme of LTE Networks ................................................................ 58
10.1.1 International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) ............................................................................ 58
10.1.2 Mobile Subscriber International Subscriber Directory Number (MS ISDN) ................................. 59
11 Chapter ............................................................................................................................. 61
Quality of Service (QOS) Requirements of LTE in IR .......................................................... 61
11.1 LTE QoS Planning and Designing .................................................................................... 61
11.2 RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety) ........................................ 62
11.2.1 Preventive and Protective Solution Planning and Design ............................................................... 62
11.2.2 More Than 4 Nines Availability: .................................................................................................... 62
11.2.3 Geo Redundancy for Key Network Functions ................................................................................ 63
11.2.4 Redundancy in Radio Access Network: ......................................................................................... 64
References ................................................................................................................................ 65
CAMTECH Publications......................................................................................................... 67
Our Objective ........................................................................................................................... 69
Abbreviations
3GPP 3rd Generation partnership Project
ATC Automatic train control
ATO Automatic train operation
ATP Automatic Train Protection
AuC Authentication Center
BBU Baseband Unit
BSC Base Station Controller
BSS Base Station Subsystem
BTS Base Transceiver Station
CA Carrier Aggregation
CDMA Code division multiple access
CPRI Common Public Radio Interface
EDGE Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution
EIR Equipment Identity Register
EIREN European Integrated Railway Radio Enhanced Network
eNB Evolved NodeB
EPC Evolved Packet Core
EPS Evolved Packet System
ERA European Union Agency for Railways
ETCS European Train Control System
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute
E-UTRAN Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network
FDD Frequency division duplex
FDMA Frequency division multiple access
FRMCS Future Rail Mobile Communications System
GBR Guaranteed Bit Rate
GPRS General Packet Radio Service
GSM Global System for Mobile Communications
GSM-R Global System for Mobile communication for Railways
HLR Home Location Register
HSR High Speed Railways
HSS Home Subscriber Server
IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identity
IoT Internet of Things
IP Internet Protocol
LTE Long Term Evolution
LTE-R LTE for Railways
List of Figures
Figure 1.1: Circuit and packet domains ...................................................................................... 2
Figure 1.2: Network Solutions from GSM to LTE (Source: 3GPP.org) .................................... 3
Figure 2.1: GSM Network Architecture ..................................................................................... 4
Figure 3.1: GSM-R Architecture .............................................................................................. 11
Figure 3.2: NF Railway MTRC Network ................................................................................. 12
Figure 4.1: Grouping of FRMCS Applications ........................................................................ 16
Figure 5.1: OFDMA and SC-FDMA ....................................................................................... 22
Figure 5.2: Frequency-time domain representation of OFDM signal ...................................... 22
Figure 5.3: FDD & TDD .......................................................................................................... 23
Figure 5.4: Frame structure used for FDD ............................................................................... 24
Figure 5.5: LTE Peak User Bit Rates @ 05MHz BW .............................................................. 25
Figure 5.6: LTE Peak User Bit Rates @ 20MHz BW .............................................................. 26
Figure 6.1: LTE Architecture ................................................................................................... 27
Figure 6.2: E-UTRAN .............................................................................................................. 28
Figure 6.3: Equipment block diagram of eNB ......................................................................... 29
Figure 6.4: MIMO .................................................................................................................... 29
Figure 6.5: Typical structure of LTE omnicells ....................................................................... 30
Figure 6.6: Typical structure of LTE 3-sector cells (each cell includes 3 x 120 degree sectors)
.................................................................................................................................................. 30
Figure 6.7: Remote Radio Head ............................................................................................... 30
Figure 6.8: Baseband Unit ........................................................................................................ 31
Figure 6.9: eNB Antenna with RRH ........................................................................................ 31
Figure 6.10: eNB Antenna with RRH (Actual scenario).......................................................... 32
Figure 6.11: EPC interfaces...................................................................................................... 33
Figure 6.12: Evolution of LTE ................................................................................................. 35
Figure 7.1: LTE functional network architecture for Indian Railways .................................... 37
Figure 7.2: LTE System Architecture for Indian Railways ...................................................... 37
Figure 7.3: TCAS Call Flow over LTE – Loco approaches Station ........................................ 40
Figure 7.4: TCAS Call Flow over LTE – Loco Departure ....................................................... 40
Figure 7.5: TCAS Call Flow over LTE – Loco to Loco .......................................................... 40
Figure 7.6: TCAS Call Flow over LTE – SoS ......................................................................... 41
Figure 7.7: TCAS Call Flow over LTE – SoS – Station TCAS is Down ................................ 41
Figure 7.8: 3GPP releases on Mission Critical Services .......................................................... 42
Figure 8.1: eNodeB Antenna with RRH & BBU (Schematic) ................................................. 48
Figure 8.2: : eNodeB Antenna with RRH (Actual outdoor)..................................................... 48
Figure 8.3: Typical LTE eNodeB deployment on Indian Railway Track ................................ 49
Figure 8.4: EPC Deployment/ Redundancy Diagram .............................................................. 51
Figure 10.1: Structure & Format of IMSI ................................................................................ 58
List of Tables
Table 6.1: LTE Network Interfaces .......................................................................................... 35
Table 8.1: Cell Range and Inter eNodeB distance ................................................................... 47
Table 8.2: Minimum no. of eNodeB locations ......................................................................... 47
Table 8.3: EPC Core traffic profile .......................................................................................... 52
Table 11.1: QOS Parameters for Indian Railway applications/ solutions on LTE ................... 61
Disclaimer
It is clarified that the information given in this handbook does not
supersede any existing provisions laid down in the IR Telecom
Engineering Manual, Railway Board and RDSO publications. This
document is not statuary and instructions given are for the purpose
of learning only. The diagrams and figures given in the handbook
are indicative only. If at any point contradiction is observed, then
Signal Engineering Manual, Telecom Engineering Manual, Railway
Board/RDSO guidelines may be referred or prevalent Zonal
Railways instructions may be followed.
1 Chapter
Introduction and Overview of LTE
1.1 Introduction
Communication technologies have always played a crucial role in Indian Railways. Operation
of this complex IR system requires reliable and timely information about the train movements
and the state of the infrastructure elements. Throughout the Indian Railways history, this
exchange of information has been provided by various communication technologies.
Capabilities and performance of the railway communication systems affect railway
operations. For instance, with faster information flow, train control/dispatching decisions can
be made faster. By increasing communication reliability, the probability of travel delays due
to communication failures is reduced. The more precise and detailed information available,
higher the safety that can be ensured.
GSM-R (Global System for Mobile communication for Railways) has by far, one of the
most widely used digital wireless technologies to provide MTRC in IR. However, with the
advent of communication and internet revolution in various domains, Indian Railways also
cannot be far behind in bringing in new ways of leveraging advanced wireless technologies to
improve the Railway operations and to enhance the experience of Railway users. Though
GSM-R has very successfully been able to serve the needs of Railways for voice and
messaging needs, being a circuit switched technology, it has now outlived its utility due to
increasing data driven needs of Railways.
Several Railway organizations around the world are looking to migrate from the existing
technologies to the advanced ones in order to meet their current and future requirements. LTE
(Long-Term Evolution) is one of the strong contenders as a technology capable of meeting
the diverse requirements of Railways. LTE is a technology defined by 3GPP (3rd Generation
partnership Project), an international partnership project of major SDOs (Standards
Development Organizations) of the world, including Telecom Standards Development
Society, India (TSDSI) – the national SDO of India. LTE, which was initially designed for
regular Public Mobile Communications, is now being enhanced for various other domains
including Railways. UIC has set up Future Rail Mobile Communications System (FRMCS)
project to prepare the necessary steps towards the introduction of a successor of GSM-R. The
Future Railway Mobile Communication System - FRMCS has been prepared by UIC in order
to have a Mobile Train Communication System based on LTE termed as LTE-R.
In GPRS, packet-switching (PS) is added to the circuit-switching. With this technology, data
is transported in packets without the establishment of dedicated circuits. This offers more
flexibility and efficiency. In GPRS, the circuits still transport voice and SMS (in most cases).
Therefore, the core network is composed of two domains: circuit and packet.
In UMTS (Universal Mobile Terrestrial System) (3G), this dual-domain concept is kept on the
core network side. To reach higher data rates in UMTS a new access technology WCDMA
(Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) was developed. The access network in UMTS
emulates a circuit switched connection for real time services and a packet switched connection
for datacom services. In UMTS the IP address is allocated to the UE (User Equipment) when
a datacom service is established and released when the service is released.
When designing the evolution of the 3G system, the 3GPP community decided to use IP
(Internet Protocol) as the key protocol to transport all services. This evolved Packet Switched
Domain system is termed as Evolved Packet System (EPS) or the LTE Network. EPS is an
end-to-end (E2E) all IP network. EPS is divided into two parts - LTE part, the access part and
the Evolved Packet Core (EPC) part, related to a core network. The main requirements for the
new access network were high spectral efficiency, high peak data rates, short round trip time
as well as flexibility in frequency and bandwidth. It was therefore, agreed that the EPC, which
is the Core network of EPS, would not have a circuit-switched domain anymore and that the
EPC should be an evolution of the packet-switched architecture used in GPRS/UMTS.
The main goal of LTE is to provide a high data rate, low latency and packet optimized radio
access technology supporting flexible bandwidth deployments. Same time its network
architecture has been designed with the goal to support packet-switched traffic with seamless
mobility and great quality of service.
2 Chapter
Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM)
2G networks developed as a replacement for first generation (1G) analog cellular networks.
The GSM standard originally described a digital, circuit-switched network optimized for full
duplex voice telephony. This expanded over time to include data communications, first
by circuit-switched transport, then by packet data transport via General Packet Radio
Service (GPRS), and Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE).
There are three main frequency bands used in GSM viz, GSM-900, GSM-1800 & GSM-1900
and three basic types of multiple access techniques:
Frequency division multiple access (FDMA)
Time division multiple access (TDMA)
Code division multiple access (CDMA)
The GSM network has the following sub-systems that work together to function as a whole:
❖ Mobile Station (MS)
The MS can be two interconnected physical devices (MT and TE) with a point-to-point
interface or a single device with both functions integrated.
The BTS contains the radio equipment (i.e., antennas, signal processing devices, and
amplifiers) necessary for radio transmission within a geographical area called a cell and the
equipment for encrypting and decrypting communications with the base station
controller (BSC). Typically a BTS will have several transceivers (TRXs) which allow it to
serve several different frequencies and different sectors of the cell.
A key function of the BSC is to act as a concentrator where many different low capacity
connections to BTSs (with relatively low utilisation) become reduced to a smaller number of
connections towards the mobile switching center (MSC) (with a high level of utilisation).
Overall, this means that networks are often structured to have many BSCs distributed into
regions near their BTSs which are then connected to large centralised MSC sites.
BSC also provides all the required data to the operation support subsystem (OSS) as well as to
the performance measuring centers.
The NSS originally consisted of the circuit-switched core network, used for traditional GSM
services such as voice calls, SMS, and circuit switched data calls. It was extended with an
overlay architecture to provide packet-switched data services known as the GPRS core
network. This allows mobile phones to have access to services such as WAP, MMS and
the Internet.
sets up connections to other MSCs and to the BSCs. An MSC can connect to a large number
of BSCs.
It also contains information regarding real time location of the Roaming Subscriber, which is
passed to the MSC for routing incoming Calls to the Mobile Station. As soon as the Mobile
Station crosses a Cell boundary (also known as Location Area), this information is updated in
the HLR. Thus, HLR is the most important Database in the GSM structure.
Each main BTS in the network is served by exactly one VLR (one BTS may be served by
many MSCs in case of MSC in pool), hence a subscriber cannot be present in more than one
VLR at a time.
manufacturer of the mobile station. An IMEI is marked as invalid if it has been reported stolen
or is not type approved.
The EIR provides security features such as blocking calls from handsets that have been stolen.
3 Chapter
Global System for Mobile Communication-Railway
(GSM-R)
Railways have some following specific requirements, which are not featured in GSM
Services:
♦ If some Emergency situation in the Locality makes all Channels busy due to sudden flood
of calls, and at that particular period, driver of a running train tries to originate a Call and
does not get Channel, a catastrophe might occur. Driver must have a facility to disconnect
some unimportant Subscriber and get the Channel on Priority. Thus, Priority cum Pre-
emption is an essential requirement.
♦ A situation may need that Track-side maintenance persons over 20 KMs area must get
same information without delay. A Commercial GSM system does not allow Group-cast
Mode Communication.
♦ In future, all the Train Controllers will have similar Numbering scheme. If the Mobile
Communications of different Zonal Railways are networked, a call from Driver will
disturb all Controllers. So, Location Dependent Addressing is also needed.
♦ Once, Cell phones are provided to all Drivers and the Driver of a particular train e.g.12137
is needed, it would be difficult for the Controller to remember the Cell phone number of
the Particular driver. It would be better, if there is Functional Addressing, which enables
dialing Code of Driver of 12137, which will be analyzed by the System and the specific
Driver at the Train will get the call.
The functionality of the above systems are same as described in GSM networks except some
ratings like RF powers of MS and BTS. There are different types of mobile equipment,
distinguished principally by their power and application. The fixed terminals are the ones
installed in driver’s cab. The RF output power is 8W, and handheld sets are of 2W power.
And the RF power of BTS will be 20-25 W.
3.5.3 Dispatcher
Dispacher is responsible for the programming and traffic of the trains on the railway
network.
4 Chapter
Future wireless communication requirements of Indian
Railways & FRMCS
vii) Open standard: The technology needs to be based on open standards that will ensure
wider availability of products, guaranteed minimum functionality and performance and a
longer life of the technology. The technology can be as much aligned to global trends as
well in order to take advantage of the global scale of operations of railways.
FRMCS is set to become the global standard for railway communications. This mobile
broadband-ready technology enables to improve safety and operational efficiency, support
innovative passenger services and accelerate digital transformation.
• Driver(s)
• Controller(s)
• Train staff:
o Train conductor(s)
o Catering staff
o Security staff
• Trackside staff:
o Trackside maintenance personnel
o Shunting team member(s)
• Railway staff (excl. all of above):
o Engine scheduler(s)
o RU operator(s)
o Catering scheduler(s)
o IM operator(s)
o Engineering personnel
• Station manager(s)
o Station personnel
o Depot personnel
o Etc.
• Member of the public:
o Passengers (on trains, on platforms, at stations, etc.)
o Other persons (on platforms, at level crossings, etc.)
• Systems:
❖ Business: applications that support the railway business operation in general, such as
wireless internet, etc.
circuit provided by GSM. As a result, circuits are often underutilized and network
resources are wasted.
GSM-R resources are assigned symmetrically in uplink and downlink. However, data-
based services often generate different amount of traffic in the two directions. Hence,
symmetry of GSM-R connections means that either uplink or downlink is overbooked and
the network resources are wasted further.
Transmission latency in GSM-R network is estimated to be in the range between 200 ms
and 400 ms. If the low bitrate is added to that, the GSM-R delay performance turns out to
be very poor. Thus, GSM - R may not fulfil requirements of delay-sensitive applications.
GSM-R Call setup time is in the range of about 5 s. GSM-R requirements state that the
setup procedure cannot exceed 8.5 s (95% of cases) and 10 s (100% of cases). This may be
sufficient for a voice call, but such a long connection setup time is unacceptable for many
real- time applications.
Capacity of GSM-R networks is insufficient. a GSM-R cell can only accommodate as
many trains as many traffic channels (time-slots) it has available. A typical cell offers 23
traffic channels. Since each train occupies one channel, such a typical cell can
accommodate at most 23 ETCS equipped trains. However, in practice, some of the traffic
channels must be kept for voice communication, as well as for handover procedures.
Therefore, a typical GSM-R cell can accommodate less than 20 trains. It has been widely
recognized that GSM-R capacity is insufficient, especially in areas with high density of
train traffic.
There is no end-to-end encryption of user data.
The 4 MHz bandwidth of GSM-R can support 19 channels of 200 KHz width. This is
sufficient for voice communication, as voice calls are limited in time and do not occupy
resources continuously. However, the current capacity turns out to be insufficient for the
next-generation railway system, where each train needs to establish a continuous data
connection with a radio block center (RBC) and each RBC connection needs to constantly
occupy one time slot.
As a narrowband system, GSM-R cannot provide advanced services and adapt to new
requirements. The maximum transmission rate of GSM-R per connection is 9.6 kb/s,
which is sufficient only for applications with low demands; message delay is in the range
of 400 ms, which is too high to support any real-time application and emergency
communication.
GSM-R is becoming an obsolete technology. Commercially networks have moved away
from GSM due to limitations of GSM technology. Many countries have started shutting
down 2G networks. This also will have an impact on the equipment available in the
market and the support provided for installations. Since Industry has given commitment to
support the GSM-R technology only until 2030, the life of such systems can be affected.
Due to the above limitations, GSM-R must eventually evolve or to be replaced by some
advanced communication technology in Railways.
Compared with GSM-R, LTE network assigns the network resources to users and
applications depending on the actual transmission demand.
LTE offers a more efficient network architecture and thus has a reduced packet delay,
which is one of the crucial requirements for providing ETCS messages.
LTE introduces a simplified core network called Evolved Packet Core (EPC) with fewer
elements than in the legacy standards. The circuit-switched part of the backbone, which
was used in earlier network generations for voice transmission, has been abandoned in
favour of a fully packet-switched solution.
Modulation and coding schemes are dynamically chosen in LTE based on the radio
conditions and the traffic demand. This link adaptation mechanism allows the network to
balance between throughput and reliability of the radio transmission.
The new radio interface offers much higher spectral efficiency than any other legacy
mobile communication standard. This is due to the advanced modulation (OFDMA),
multiplexing (up to 64QAM) as well as usage of Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO).
MIMO is a technique where multiple antennas are used at both the transmitter and the
receiver to increase the link reliability and the spectral efficiency.
LTE can operate in different bandwidths: 1.4 MHz, 3 MHz, 5 MHz, 10 MHz, 15 MHz or
20 MHz (and more with carrier aggregation in LTE-Advanced). This range of bandwidths
allows network operators to flexibly manage their available radio spectrum. For instance,
an operator may split the radio band used by the GSM network (spectrum re-farming).
One part would still be used by GSM, while in the other part a new LTE network may be
deployed. As the number of terminals equipped with LTE radio increase over time, the
bandwidth of the LTE network could be increased accordingly. Therefore, the migration
to LTE can be gradual and spread over years.
LTE offers QoS mechanisms providing traffic differentiation, protection and prioritization
over both radio and backbone networks.
LTE provides standardized mechanisms for inter-working with all legacy 3GPP
technologies. Mechanisms, such as cell re-selection, handover and connection release,
allow mobile terminals to quickly and seamlessly transfer from one radio network to
another. Due to this, it may be possible to have interoperability between the new and old
systems at least to some extent.
LTE is the latest family of mobile communication standards. Hence, it has much lower
obsolescence risk than any of the previous standards.
Considering the advantages listed above, LTE is gaining a considerable interest from the
railway community, industry and suppliers, as one of the most likely candidate for
replacement of GSM-R.
5 Chapter
LTE technology
The OFDM splits the wideband carrier in to multiple overlapping narrowband orthogonal
subcarriers for carrying the data. A frequency-time domain representation of a 5 MHz OFDM
signal is shown in the below Figure 5.2: Frequency-time domain representation of OFDM
signal.
OFDMA technology has been incorporated into LTE because it enables high data bandwidths
to be transmitted efficiently while still providing a high degree of resilience to reflections and
interference.
LTE was initially designed to support a scalable bandwidth (BW) of up to 20 MHz with a
peak data rate of 300 Mbps using a 4 × 4 multiple input multiple output (MIMO)
configuration and 64 QAM modulation, and later extended to support up to 100 MHz by
aggregating five 20 MHz carriers. A unified frame and symbol structure is defined for all the
supported bandwidths with the same subcarrier spacing of 15 KHz.
The radio frame length is of 10 ms duration, and it is divided into 10 subframes each of 1 ms
duration. Each subframe consists of two slots each of length 0.5 ms. Each slot contains 7 (for
normal CP) or 6 (for extended CP) OFDM symbols. The unit of allocation is in terms of
resource blocks (RB) which composed of one slot duration and 12 subcarriers. Scheduling is
done in terms of RB pairs. A resource element (RE) is the smallest element in the RB which is
of one subcarrier for one OFDM symbol duration. Therefore, a RB consists of 84 REs (for
normal CP), or 72 REs (for extended CP).
It is to be noted that not all subcarriers are used for transmission. For example, dc subcarrier
and the subcarriers at the edges are left as guard band. There are 100 RBs in a 20 MHz BW.
before transmission to achieve the diversity gain at the receiver. Appropriate MIMO modes
are chosen based on the user velocity, channel signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR),
and user equipment (UE) capability.
6 Chapter
LTE System Architecture & Components
It provides higher data rates, lower latency and is optimized for packet data. It
uses OFDMA radio-access for the downlink and SC-FDMA on the uplink.
The radio coverage area of an eNodeB is called a cell. Accordingly, the cell site is where the
eNodeB radio equipment and its antennas are placed.
The eNodeB is connected to EPC nodes by means of an S1 interface. The eNodeB is also
connected to its neighbor eNodeBs by means of the X2 interface. eNB is equivalent of BSS in
GSM-R.
BBU
RRH
Router EPC
OFC
6.3.1 Antenna
LTE adopts multiple input multiple output (MIMO) as the antenna technology. MIMO is a
technique where multiple antennas are used at both the transmitter and the receiver to increase
the link reliability and the spectral efficiency. One of the main problems that previous
telecommunications systems have encountered is that of multiple signals arising from the
many reflections that are encountered in antenna deployments. By using MIMO, these
additional signal paths can be used to advantage and are able to be used to increase the
throughput.
Based on the antenna type, there can be two types of cell deployments: omnidirectional cell
and sectorized cell. The omnidirectional cell also called omnicell, includes an Omni antenna
to cover the signals in 360-degree field which practically means in all directions.
In contrast to omnicells, the sectorized cells have been designed to enhance the cellular
system capacity. The sectorization refers to when cells are divided into different parts called
sector. The antenna for eNodeB is replaced with sector antenna owning different order of
sectorization, e.g. three, six, or nine with 120, 60, 40 degrees' coverage, respectively, where
each sector is covered by one of the sector antennas. The importance of cell sectorization is
mainly due to improving the transmission capabilities and capacity gain and thereby, it is
widely used by mobile communication industries to increase the data rate.
Figure 6.6: Typical structure of LTE 3-sector cells (each cell includes 3 x 120 degree sectors)
The interfacing between BBU and RRH is with Optic Fibre Cable and compliant to the
Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI) specification or OBSAI (Open Base Station
Architecture Initiative).
The BBU and RRH shall be designed to work in 5 MHz (paired) in 700 MHz band (703-748
MHz Uplink & 758-803 MHz Downlink) allocated to Indian Railways. The eNodeB (BBU
and RRH) shall support Omni Cell and Cell Sectorization (Sectoring) and MIMO
configuration as per site requirement.
Antenna
RRH
EPC is composed of four network elements: Mobility Management Entity (MME), Home
Subscriber Server (HSS), Serving Gateway (S-GW) and Packet Data Network Gateway (P-
GW).
A Home Network may contain one or several HSSs: it depends on the number of mobile
subscribers, on the capacity of the equipment and on the organisation of the network.
It is the anchor point for the intra-LTE mobility (i.e. in case of handover between eNodeBs)
and between LTE and other 3GPP accesses. It is logically connected to the other gateway, the
PDN GW.
In a nutshell, PCRF is the policy manager of the LTE technology. All the quality of service
(QoS) rules and regulations are distributed to the PDN GW by the PCRF.
7 Chapter
LTE-R and Implementation of LTE on Indian Railways
7.1 Introduction
Railway specific network parameters depend both on the technology and the implementation
aspects. The performance of LTE-R will be better than GSM-R in terms of several attributes
like data rates, spectral efficiency, Handover success rates and Mobility which affect the
railway network specific performance. The coverage of LTE technology is better than the
existing cellular and GSM-R, with support for higher throughput at longer distances.
The International Union of Railways, UIC a global organization for Railway set up a project
in 2014 to prepare the necessary steps towards the introduction of a successor of GSM-R.
Subsequently, the Future Railway Mobile Communication System (FRMCS) was prepared by
UIC in order to have a Mobile Train Communication System based on LTE since LTE has a
simple flat architecture, high data rate, and low latency, making it an acceptable choice to be
the next generation of HSR wireless communication.
LTE for Railways (LTE-R) is a next-gen communications network dedicated for railway
services, enabling high-speed wireless voice and data communications inside trains, from the
train to the ground and from train to train. LTE-R can also support passenger information
applications, CCTV, traffic management, ticketing and other services on a single network.
The LTE-R systems are compatible with modern train automation systems like European
Train Control System (ETCS) or similar and also interoperable with other legacy mobile
communication systems such as GSM and UMTS.
The applications of LTE for Railways, the next generation Mobile Train Radio
Communication System, can be classified under the following three broad categories:
1. Indian Railway Automatic Train Protection System (IRATP) through Train Collision
Avoidance System (TCAS) or any other similar systems as specified by Indian Railways
2. Mission Critical Services (MCX) as per FRMCS standards
3. Video Surveillance System in locomotives for Level Crossing Gate/ Tunnels/ Bridges
4. Onboard Passenger Information System (PIS) consisting of passenger information display
and passenger announcement system
5. Internet of Things (IoT) based Asset reliability monitoring
6. Onboard Video Surveillance System (VSS) for Passenger Security
7. Broadband Internet on Running Train (Onboard Wi-Fi facility through LTE).
5 MHz (paired) Spectrum in 700 MHz band (703-748 MHz Uplink & 758-803 MHz
Downlink, also specified as Band 28 in 3GPP/ETSI standards) has been allocated to
Indian Railways for implementing above services.
TCAS provides continuous update of Movement Authority (distance up to which the train is
permitted to travel without danger). Hence, during unsafe situations when brake application is
necessitated, and the Crew has either failed to do so, or is not in position to do so, automatic
brake application shall take place.
TCAS has additional features to display information like speed, location, distance to signal
ahead, Signal aspects etc. in Loco Pilot’s cab and generation of Auto and Manual SOS
messages (Distress messages) from Loco as well as Station unit in case of emergency
situation.
The communication between Stationary TCAS and Loco TCAS units shall be Safety Integrity
Level -4 (SIL-4) certified, while Loco TCAS to Loco TCAS communication, Non-Signalling
based additional collision protection features (i.e. Head-on, Rear end & Side Collision) and
Manual SoS are non-SIL (not failsafe).
Figure 7.3: TCAS Call Flow over LTE – Loco approaches Station
Figure 7.7: TCAS Call Flow over LTE – SoS – Station TCAS is Down
MCPTT is now typically used to refer to 3GPP’s “Mission-Critical Push-to-Talk over LTE”
standard, which is part of 3GPP Release 13, which was finalized in March 2016.
Though the MCPTT Service primarily focuses on the use of the 3GPP system there might be
users who access the MCPTT Service through non-3GPP access technology, dispatchers and
administrators are examples of this. Dispatchers and administrators are special users who have
particular admin and call management privileges which normal users might not have. In
MCPTT dispatchers can use an MCPTT UE (i.e., 3GPP) or a non-3GPP access connection to
the MCPTT Service based on a "dispatcher and Administrator" interface. Through this
interface a user is able to access and manage the services related to on the network and those
common to on the network and off the network.
The MCData Service will reuse functions including end-to-end encryption, key management,
authentication of the sender, etc. in order to provide group communications for data services.
As for all mission critical services, users affiliate to groups in order to receive
communications directed to the group.
In addition, the MCData Service will provide a set of generic capabilities such as: messaging,
file distribution, data streaming, IP proxy, etc. The MCData Service will also provide specific
services such as conversation management, data base enquiries, internet access, robots
control.
IoT can also be used to improve train safety. Most of today’s trains rely on trackside switches
located in remote areas.
With the IoT and remote monitoring, it is possible to remake trackside infrastructure from
switches to power lines, which could automate many of the routine safety checks and reduce
the costs of maintenance.
8 Chapter
Design, Deployment & Requirements of LTE in Indian
Railways
Actual cell range needs to be calculated using planning tool where, clutter morphologies (like
River, vegetation and other clutter losses are considered).
specification. The system shall also support Carrier Aggregation (CA) as per 3GPP/ETSI
specification.
The LTE shall be suitable for Indian Railway Train speeds from 0 - 250 Kmph which
should be upgradable to higher train speeds up to 350 Kmph.
The 230 V/ 50 Hz AC nominal Electrical Power Supply available in Indian Railway
premises with suitable stabilisation shall be provided for LTE.
The LTE systems including EPC, eNodeB and other equipment provided by different
OEM‟s shall be interoperable and shall be seamlessly integrated with each other in such a
way that all the features and services are available in the solution.
The LTE Radio Network shall be planned with double radio coverage (100% Coverage
Overlap) where in case of one eNodeB failure, the adjacent eNodeBs will cover the
requirements.
Special solutions need to be designed and considered for areas such as Train tunnels,
Bridges, Ghat sections and Mountainous curves etc.
The approximate Cell Range and Inter eNodeB distance for desired throughput are as below:
Rural 15
Sub Urban 20
Urban 33
The Antennas to be used for Railway tracks shall be of directional type. Indian Railways
may have one Sector at Terminal stations and usually two Sectors for single route
sections in either direction of the Base Station (eNodeB). There may be three or more
Sectors in case for additional spur route in the junction station/line.
LTE Antennas shall be installed with 2x2 MIMO techniques. The BBU (Baseband Unit)
and RRH (Remote Radio Head) shall be hardware ready to support 2x2 MIMO and no.
of Sectors as per site requirement.
The Tower shall be designed considering no. of Antennas & Equipment/ accessories,
their physical dimensions and various other required factors. The Tower design/drawing
shall clearly mention no. of antennas & equipment and their mounting locations on the
Tower.
The Tower structure as per site requirement if any may have provision of equipment
platform at suitable height, Working/ Rest Platform, access ladders and cable ladders
etc. The fence and gate may be provided between tower legs.
The Tower design shall be approved by agencies such as Bureau of Indian Standards
(BIS), Telecom Engineering Centre (TEC), Structural Engineering Research Centre
(SERC), Central Power Research Institute (CPRI) and Indian Railway/ RDSO or any
other competent agencies/ institutions/ authorities as specified by the purchaser.
Roof Top Towers of suitable design and height shall also be used as per site
requirement.
The Tower manufacturer/ Supplier shall be ISO 9001:2015 approved and have Tower
design and demonstration capabilities and quality assurance process for manufacturing.
Initially, LTE shall be implemented on Indian Railways with two EPCs at two different
geographic locations (Northern and Southern). Later on, two more EPCs (Western and
Eastern) may be provided based on increase of traffic capacity. The EPCs shall be redundant
and virtualized.
The Northern EPC (at Delhi) and Southern EPC (at Secunderabad) shall work in redundant
mode with 1:1 redundancy. The Northern/Southern EPC should be planned to work on full
capacity of designated Zonal Railways. The same capacity shall be kept as redundant in
Southern/Northern EPC. At each location EPC shall support local redundancy on
Server/port/connectivity level.
MME, HSS & PCRF components of Evolved packet core can be centralized and shall be geo-
redundant. Application servers shall also be centralized and situated along with the core.
In order to reduce the latency over the transport network Serving Gateway (S- GW) and
Packet Data Network Gateway (P-GW) may be deployed at all Zonal Railway locations.
Total number
Nos. 4,00,000 4,00,000 5555
of subscribers
Total
Gbps 50 50 5
Throughput
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User Equipment (UE), On-board Equipment and
Dispatcher System Design Requirements
The UE category for Indian Railways shall be selected based on the spectrum bandwidth and
UL/DL data throughput requirement.
3. Rail Handset
4. Rail Rooftop Antenna (To be mounted on the roof top of the drivers cabin)
Each Train Engine (Loco) shall be provided with 2 nos. of Cab Radio Systems in
redundant mode for Indian Railways front and Rear Loco compartments. The Cab Radio
System shall provide Voice and Data communication for train operational requirements.
The Cab Radio System shall support latest 3GPP/ETSI 4G and 5G LTE spectrums and
bandwidths. It shall work on the spectrum assigned for LTE to Indian Railways. Cab
Radio System shall support Mission Critical application as per latest 3GPP/ETSI 4G and
5G release 16 or later specifications.
The Cab Radio System shall meet TCAS/ETCS standard requirements as per relevant
specifications for train operation and automation system for Indian Railways.
The Cab Radio System shall meet requirements of FRMCS/EIRENE specification. The
Cab Radio shall have the following minimum functions/features:-
A. Driver call related functions:
i) Call controller
ii) Call other drivers in the area
iii) Send railway emergency call
iv) Confirm receipt of railway emergency calls
v) Communicate with other drivers on the same train
vi) Call train staff
vii) Call other authorized users
viii) Receive incoming voice calls
ix) Terminate calls
x) Receive text messages
xi) Enter/leave shunting mode
xii) Monitor calls to other on train users/devices
xiii) Forward calls/cancel call forwarding to/from driver hand held
One Cab Radio System shall consist of at least two Mobile network terminations, in
active/ standby configuration i.e. comprising of minimum two mobile equipment and
SIM cards.
The SIM cards shall be physically integrated with the cab radio set and shall not be able
to be removed except by maintenance staff.
The Control Panel shall consist of capacitive touch screen display unit of day light
readable type for displaying information. Control panel shall have dedicated hard buttons
configurable for specific functions.
Cab Radio System shall receive remote software upgrades via a ground-based
management terminal. Cab Radio System shall also support software updates via USB
Stick. There shall be provision for retrieving system logs from USB/Ethernet ports.
The Speakers in the Driver Cab shall be loud enough to be audible in the running Train.
The radio should be able to provide five levels of adjustment (numbered 1 to 5) for each
volume range setting.
Separate Rail Rooftop Low Profile Antenna shall be provided for each Cab Radio
System.
The Cab Radio System shall be connected to TCAS/ ETCS systems with suitable
interfaces through LTE Router/ Modem equipment. The Cab Radio System shall also be
connected to other on-train systems application through LTE Router/ Modem equipment.
The following interfaces for the on-train systems application may be provided:-
1. TCAS/ ETCS
2. Train borne recorder
3. Public Address interface
4. Intercom and other interfaces as required
The various equipment in the Cab and their redundant equipment shall be connected over
Optical Fibre Media or any other media of industry standard in Ring Arrangement.
The various systems/sub systems in the Cab Radio System for voice and data shall be
connected with suitable cables and wires complying to relevant specifications and
standards for Rolling Stock Application.
The Ethernet interface between Cab Radio and client application shall be on industrial
grade fibre or CAT6 cable with suitable M12/M23 connectors.
An emergency power supply should be provided for Cab Radio System which will enable
the driver’s radio to continue to operate for a period of at least 2 hour in the event of
failure of the train’s main power supply.
All design manufacturing, testing and installation of Cab Radio equipment shall comply
with the quality procedures defined in ISO 9001.
LTE Cab Radio Rail Rooftop Low profile Antenna shall cover LTE spectrums and
bandwidths. It shall work on the spectrum assigned for LTE to Indian Railways.
The mechanical dimension shall be such that it meets mounting requirements on the Rail
Rooftop of Indian Railways for electrified and non-electrified sections, Sub-urban
sections, bridges, tunnels etc.
The antenna shall be Omni directional with minimum 6 dBi gain and support minimum 2
x 2 MIMO antenna configuration.
The MCPTT Handsets shall support latest 3GPP/ETSI LTE spectrums and frequency
bands. It shall work on the spectrum assigned for LTE to Indian Railways.
MCPTT Handsets shall also support the GSM-900 MHz network of Indian Railways.
It shall support Mission Critical application as per latest 3GPP/ETSI release 16 or later
specifications and support Carrier Aggregation (CA).
Dispatcher is an MCPTT User who participates in MCPTT communications for command and
control purposes.
The Dispatching System should be able to provide a flexible, reliable and comfortable
solution enabling efficient and effective voice and text-message communication and
communication management in various PMR communication technologies such as LTE and
PBX network environment. It should be used in:-
dispatching centers for the controlling and handling of entire fleets of subscribers
centers of effective alarm and control functions
emergency center for handling specific, public and other emergent events
other management and operational centers
Dispatching System shall use IP based interface to connect to the communication
network infrastructures for voice communications. It should support IP-based architecture
and packet- switch-based message routing strategy.
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Numbering Scheme for Mobile Communication Network
(LTE) for Indian Railways
The IMSI is a string of decimal digits, up to a maximum length of 15 digits, which identifies a
unique subscription. The IMSI consists of three fields: the mobile country code (MCC), the
mobile network code (MNC), and the mobile subscription identification number (MSIN).
The MSISDN composition follows the international ISDN numbering plan with the following
structure:
Country Code (CC), up to three digits;
National Destination Code (NDC), typically two or three digits;
Subscriber Number (SN), a maximum of 10 digits.
RDSO has approved and issued Uniform Numbering Scheme for Mobile Communication
Network (GSM-R) for Indian Railways. The same scheme shall be applicable for LTE.
11 Chapter
Quality of Service (QOS) Requirements of LTE in IR
As railways will be running a number of rail applications on the same LTE network it is
important to plan and derive an e2e QoS design, taking the Railways key applications, use
cases, and call scenarios into account and ensure;
End to end LTE QoS design techniques
End to End product support for QoS
The one-to-one mapping of standardized QCI values to standardized characteristics for the
tentative services shall be as under:
Table 11.1: QOS Parameters for Indian Railway applications/ solutions on LTE
QC Priorit Packet Packe Example Services Mapping of Indian Railway
I y Level Delay t applications(Tentative)
Budge Error
t Loss
Rate
Resource Type: GBR (Guaranteed Bit Rate)
1 2 100 ms 10-2 Conversational Voice Voice Mobile Communication
System design and architecture of LTE network for Railways, not only mandates additional
technical capabilities but also requires careful planning and designing considerations, which
go beyond to normal Mobile operator network design.
communication systems. Further, it is expected that any system deployed for mission critical
rail applications, must avoid any single point of failures.
From solution design perspective this means the end to end LTE network must
adhere to minimal unplanned outages, avoiding any single point of failures. (E.g. 26.283
minutes in a year for 99.995.
For train control, ETCS systems alone must adhere to 99.99% availability. When LTE is
being used as the DCN (Data Communication Network) subsystem in the ETCS, this
means that LTE network must be planned and designed to support more than 99.99%
availability.
When designing redundancy into a network, it is important to visualize the network as an end
to end interdependent system. It is crucial to evaluate and understand the impact when one
subsystem becomes unavailable or has degraded performance. If a particular sub system in the
network affects the desired performance of the system as a whole, an appropriate redundancy
mechanism should be planned and incorporated.
It is expected that a LTE network running mission critical applications (e.g. automatic train
control, MCX) will have the following key nodes in different physical (geo) locations to
provide redundancy.
LTE core (User Data Centre (UDC), Evolved Packet Core (EPC), Service Aware
Policy Control (SAPC) and associated routers and switches)
OSS
MCX-PTT Application Server
IP-Transport core aggregation nodes (as part of the IP-transport and LTE backhaul
redundancy architecture)
Planning for sufficient redundancy in the e2e network, including radio access network is
important to maintain the availability and reliability targets of a rail network. From solutions
perspective, appropriate redundancy in RAN should be planned and designed taking all of the
following interdependent areas in to account:-
Track-side coverage deployment models
eNodeB configuration models
On-board coverage system models
Train on-board equipment (Cab radio equipment, On-board LTE devices)
IP-Transport and LTE backhaul solution and architecture
LTE core network solution and architecture
Applications
References
1. IR Telecom Manual 2021
2. RDSO Technical Advisory Note (TAN) Document No. STT/TAN/LTE/2021,
Version 1.0
3. “Requirements of Wireless Communications in Indian Railways” – Project
Report on “LTE-R for Indian Railways” (May 2018) by IIT Madras, IIT
Hyderabad & Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology, IIT Madras
(CEWiT)
4. “Study of LTE for Indian Railways Requirements” – Project Report on “LTE-R
for Indian Railways” (May 2019) by IIT Madras, IIT Hyderabad & Centre of
Excellence in Wireless Technology, IIT Madras (CEWiT)
5. “Adaptation of LTE for Indian Railway” – Project Report on “LTE-R for Indian
Railways” (May 2019) by IIT Madras, IIT Hyderabad & Centre of Excellence in
Wireless Technology, IIT Madras (CEWiT)
6. Technical literature from IRISET
7. https://www.3gpp.org/
8. 3GPP TS 22.179 version 15.2.0 Release 15 - Mission Critical Push to Talk
(MCPTT) over LTE
9. 3GPP TS 22.282 version 14.3.0 Release 14 - Mission Critical Data over LTE
10. 3GPP TS 22.281 version 14.3.0 Release 14 - Mission Critical Video over LTE
11. Technical literature from M/s Nokia Enterprises
12. Technical literature from M/s Ericsson India
13. Future Railway Mobile Communication System - User Requirements
Specification by International Union of Railways (UIC)
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