• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.20-30
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• 2017

Due to the evolution of wireless communications technology, Long Term Evolution (LTE), which is a $4^{th}$ generation mobile communications system, has been adopted as a railway communications system. This LTE Railway (LTE-R) system is composed of various elemental functions, which are largely categorized into public safety and wireless communications for train control. Research on the public safety functions of railway communications have their roots in TRS based national public safety communication systems, and research on wireless communications functions for train control have their roots GSM-R, which is utilized by the ETCS in Europe. Based on these circumstances, this paper first analyzes the requirements for developing public safety technology in LTE-R, and compares those requirements with the functions of public safety LTE (PS-LTE), which is being deployed for the first time in the world by the South Korean government. Based on an analysis of the common and specific functions of LTE-R and PS-LTE, we conclude that there is little problem in integrating LTE-R and PS-LTE from the perspective of functionality. Second, this paper provides a comparison of the LTE-R requirements for the Quality of Service (QoS) with those of GSM-R utilized by the ETCS. This offers a guideline to allow LTE-R to be applied to a 500km/h train control system.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.43-51
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• 2015

South Korea decided to use the public safety long term evolution (PS-LTE) method to build a wireless communications network for national disaster. The move will allow all disaster management agencies, including police, firefighters and the military to use multimedia information, including videos, in addition to voice to carry out rescue operations from 2017. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning said Thursday that it adopted PS-LTE as the technology method for national disaster management system following a national policy coordination meeting last month. PS-LTE is a method integrating group communication, direction communication between terminals and independent base station function with existing LTE technology. Until now, disaster management agencies used technology that only allowed voice communication. However, transmission of multimedia information is possible using PS-LTE.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.82-92
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• 2014

재난안전통신은 각 국가의 안전을 위한 사회 공공시설 중에서 위기상황에 대처하기 위한 범국가적인 통신망이라고 할 수 있다. 또한 국민의 생명과 관련된 통신망으로, 어떠한 사적 이익도 배제해야 한다는 것이 전문가들의 공통적인 의견이며, 중요한 요소인 표준화된 재난안전통신망을 사용하여, 범국가적으로 대처해야만 한다는 공감대를 갖고 있다. 국가적인 차원에서 재난안전통신망 구축을 위한 노력이 이루어지고 있고, 최근 재난안전무선통신망으로 PS-LTE(PS-LTE Public Safety LTE) 기술을 채택하면서, 우리나라에서도 PS-LTE에 대한 적극적인 관심을 갖고 있다. 재난안전무선통신망 구축을 위해서 PS-LTE에서 요소 기술을 검증하기 위해 공공기관 및 학계에서 활발한 활동이 있다. 본고에서는 3GPP에서 진행되고 있는 재난안전통신에 대한 요구사항, 국내동향 및 그에 따른 표준화 동향을 살펴보고자 한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.41 no.11
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• pp.1440-1442
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• 2016

As long term evolution (LTE) is the most widely deployed broadband communication technology so far, efforts are being made to develop LTE-based mission critical public safety (PS) communication systems. In this paper, we propose a device-to-device (D2D) discovery-based radio resource acquisition scheme to support the LTE D2D communication to PS systems and the realization of resource forwarding for user equipments in emergency area.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.31 no.10
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• pp.43-48
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• 2014

현재 재난안전통신 시스템에서 광대역 이동통신 기술은 주요 화두로 부각되어 있고, 한국, 영국, 미국 등에서 PS-LTE(Public Safety-LTE) 기술을 기반으로 재난안전통신 수요에 대응하고 있다. 본 고에서는 PS-LTE 표준과 개발 동향에 대해서 소개하고자 한다. 서론에서는 PS-LTE 네트워크 아키텍처와 기술적 요구사항에 대해 소개하고, 본론에서는 국제표준화 기구에서 논의되고 있는 PS-LTE 관련 표준 기능과 현황에 대해 간단히 설명한다. 특히 그룹통신기술, 단말간 직접통신기술, 단독기지국 운용기술, 상호 운용성에 대해서 다루고, 개발 동향에 대해서도 살펴보고자 한다.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.115-120
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• 2020

PS-LTE, which is mentioned as a next-generation disaster network technology, is a communication technology that supports communication between terminals and group communication necessary for public safety communication based on LTE technology. Currently, Korea is establishing a PS-LTE network construction plan and installing a PS-LTE system. The world is currently making a lot of efforts to build a disaster network system using PS-LTE. However, due to the characteristics of the closed network that only the related persons can access, it can not be operated like the existing commercial network, so it is necessary to build a new network. And it is expected that many periods and costs will be required. In order to establish a disaster safety communication network efficiently, it is necessary to consider the linkage of PS-LTE network, which is newly constructed by complementing the problems such as security and access priority to existing LTE network rather than unconditional new construction.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.214-223
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• 2019

This paper presents methodologies and strategies for developing standard operating procedures (SOPs) that are essential for practical use of disaster communication systems. Therefore, the various factors related to the SOP of the public safety network(SafeNet) are identified and analyzed, and the processes and strategies for the effective development of the SOP are developed and presented based on the analysis. In addition, the proposed SOP is reflected in LTE, which is public safety network implementation technology, and suggests how priority and QoS that are the basis of radio resource allocation should be operated.

• Review of Korean Society for Internet Information
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.33-38
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• 2015

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.595-603
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• 2016

In the Republic of Korea, the LTE-based public safety (PS-LTE) network is being built for the 700 MHz frequency band. However, the same bands are also assigned to the LTE-based high-speed railway (LTE-R) network. Therefore, it is essential to utilize the co-channel interference management schemes for the coexistence of two LTE networks in order to increase the system throughput and to reduce the user outage probability. In this paper, we focus on the downlink (DL) system for the coexistence of PS-LTE and LTE-R networks by considering non radio access network (RAN) sharing and LTE-R RAN sharing by PS-LTE users (UEs) to analyze the UE throughput. Moreover, we also utilize the cooperative communications schemes, such as coordinated multipoint (CoMP) for the coexistence of PS-LTE and LTE-R networks in order to reduce the UE outage probability. We categorize the coexistence of PS-LTE and LTE-R networks into four different scenarios, and evaluate the performance of each scenario by the important performance indexes, such as UE average throughput and UE outage probability.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.102-110
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• 2016

After Sewol ferry disaster occurred in April 2014, Korean government began investing to deploy LTE-based public safety network until the year of 2017. In order to reduce the operating and capital costs, resource sharing scheme among public safety network and commercial LTE networks is considered as one of the viable approaches. This thesis proposes a method of allocating bandwidth of public safety network based on various priorities required for disaster scenarios and stages in a resource sharing environment. In order to obtain the highest efficiency, we formulate the bandwidth allocation problem as a Fractional Knapsack Problem. Greedy algorithm was applied to solve the problem. For performance evaluation, we created several disaster scenarios and set suitable parameters for each scenario based on a disaster manual. The proposed method is compared with two typical methods, which are Class-based bandwidth allocation and Uniform bandwidth allocation. The results showed that the better performance in terms of the sum of the values and the amount of lost bytes.