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VIDA Broadband LTE

700 MHz Broadband Networks for Public Safety

Executive Summary Network Design Overview VIDA Core Network Description LTE RAN Description Network Management and Administration Priority Services Harris Managed Services Broadband Application Support Public Safety Broadband User Equipment

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1. Executive Summary
To meet the need for Public Safety mission-critical mobile broadband services, Harris Corporation has developed VIDA Broadband LTE: a complete 700 MHz private broadband network based on the 3GPP LTE cellular technology. VIDA Broadband LTE is a private wireless broadband network designed exclusively for Public Safety, and uses the same fourth generation cellular network architecture and over-the-air technology (LTE, or Long Term Evolution) as commercial cellular networks slated for deployment with hundreds of carriers across the globe. Harris has integrated this commercial LTE technology into our VIDA platform which provides mission critical voice and data for Public Safety customers. With VIDA Broadband LTE, First Responders have a customized solution that leverages the LTE ecosystem yet meets their needs for a highly reliable, secure, interoperable broadband network for wide area mobile applications.

The VIDA Broadband LTE network is designed to meet the requirements of the Federal Communications Commission National Broadband Plan, allowing Public Safety agencies to deploy an infrastructure that fully integrates into a nationwide, interoperable Public Safety wireless broadband network. VIDA Broadband LTE meets the cyber security and critical infrastructure survivability requirements that FCC has mandated for Public Safety broadband, and fully supports the evolving technical framework for the FCCs Emergency Response Interoperability Center (ERIC).

VIDA Broadband LTE provides substantial benets for First Responders over both private data and commercial cellular networks. VIDA Broadband LTEs advantages over traditional private data networks include:

Public Safety agencies can now deploy broadband data applications across their entire eet, to all users requiring mission critical data access.

The network provides sufficient bandwidth for applications requiring demanding Quality of Service, including streaming video.

The large coverage footprint of VIDA Broadband LTE allows Public Safety to use these applications across their jurisdictional boundaries, not just in designated hot-spots or coverage areas.

The Harris VIDA Broadband LTE system implements sophisticated access control, user priority and quality of service to ensure that the network can be used for true mission critical applications.

Private networks ensure that broadband applications can be mission-critical, and that users can access the network during catastrophic events. Public users of other cellular networks cannot access the private Public Safety networks or spectrum, and cannot swamp the network as commonly happens with commercial networks.

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While VIDA Broadband LTE uses the same radio technology as fourth generation cellular, the VIDA Broadband LTE network provides additional functionality not found in commercial networks including the capability to directly connect Harris VIDA-based LMR and the LTE systems into a single multi-band, multi-mode Public Safety communication network. And because Public Safety agencies control the deployment, VIDA Broadband LTE networks can be built with the reliability, robustness and redundancy necessary to ensure communications under the worst possible circumstances. Finally, private broadband networks ensure that broadband applications can be mission-critical, and that users can access the network during catastrophic events.

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Integrated narrowband and broadband dispatch calls are transmitted seamlessly across VIDA Broadband LTE. Using the VIDA Core Network, Public Safety dispatch calls that originate on a P25compliant LMR network are transparently routed to users with P25 Voice over IP capabilities on the VIDA Broadband LTE network. The broadband calls have full end-to-end encryption, and use the same patch, priority and preemption capabilities developed for the LMR network. Radio dispatchers operating from Public Safety dispatch centers can directly contact and manage users operating on the broadband network with the same Computer-aided Dispatch and incident management systems as they have with traditional LMR users. Future multi-mode, multi-band devices will have the capability to operate on both the LMR and broadband networks, allowing seamless transition of users across regional or even nationwide networks.

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The VIDA Broadband LTE network consists of a number of key elements:

The VIDA Core Network that provides packet routing, mobility management and service provisioning capabilities to users on the network,

An LTE Radio Access Network (RAN) which provides wireless coverage to users of the network, Network Management servers and consoles to monitor the performance and status of the network devices,

Integrated multi-agency Network Administration that allows users to be provisioned with both broadband data and Public Safety voice capabilities simultaneously, and

Mobile and xed subscriber equipment.

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In addition to the VIDA Broadband LTE network, Harris Corporation can also provide a wide variety of user equipment, Public Safety applications, and managed services to aid in the deployment and operation of the network. Harris deployment capabilities include system engineering, coverage analysis, project management and site development. Harris also has the expertise to operate and manage the network, allowing Public Safety agencies to focus on their mission of delivering emergency services to protect the public. As an option, Harris can also provide the VIDA Core Network as a managed service, so that customers do not need to incur the capital expense of deploying a broadband network operations center.

By teaming with Harris Corporation to deploy a VIDA Broadband LTE network, Public Safety agencies can quickly realize the promise of 700 MHz broadband in support of their mission-critical communications:

Network coverage with roaming across jurisdictional boundaries Priority access for high bandwidth communications Secure delivery of critical information to rst responders in the eld Quality of Service to support streaming video applications.

2. Network Design Overview

The VIDA Broadband LTE network conforms to the 3GPP Release 8 of the Evolved Packet System (EPS), commonly referred to as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Previous 3GPP standards supported traditional circuit switched cellular voice services and dened a separate packet data network as an adjunct capability. LTE is a natural evolution for commercial cellular networks to use same IP packetswitched technology that Harris VIDA Core Network has deployed for Public Safety narrowband networks. LTE is the result of the 3GPPs efforts to evolve from the hybrid circuit switched/packet switched network into a single packet data network supporting voice and data services. In addition to evolving the core network, LTE provides enhanced radio interface or air link capabilities which provides high throughput broadband data access to multiple users. The evolved LTE network also provides priority services with Quality of Service (QoS) and improved user access times. The inherent QoS in LTE means that different users (such as emergency voice calls), or different applications (for instance, streaming video) can be assured of priority access or adequate bandwidth. The Harris VIDA Broadband LTE network seamlessly integrates into the VIDA Core Network, allowing for coherent First Responder narrowband and broadband communication services across a single, unied system.

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VIDA Core Network

The system design of VIDA Broadband LTE divides the functional capabilities of the network into two main components: the VIDA Core Network (VIDA CN) and the LTE Radio Access Network (LTE RAN). The VIDA CN tracks the location (or site) of registered users, routes voice and data packets for the user to that site, and continuously monitors the operation of the network to optimize performance. Within the terminology of the 3GPP, the packet switched core network for LTE is referred to as an Evolved Packet Core (EPC). Because the EPC uses a single technology for voice and data routing, the EPC facilitates network deployment and lowers operational costs. The VIDA CN is an implementation of the EPC, optimized for all modes of Public Safety communication, including dispatch. The VIDA CN manages communications to users as they roam throughout the network, providing dispatch, push-totalk, and data services. The VIDA CN is implemented as a attened IP design, providing for signicant reductions in jitter and latency. These performance improvements greatly enhance the system for time sensitive applications such as Push-to-talk Over Cellular (POC). In addition to providing LTE specic core functionality, the VIDA CN provides access points for other IP data services, such as local area VIDA Broadband 4.9 GHz hot zones, or wide area narrowband data.

LTE RAN (Radio Access Network)

The VIDA Broadband LTE RAN provides the air link, or radio services to the user as they roam throughout the network. Users register on the LTE RAN, are provisioned for services based on proles received by the VIDA CN, and are allocated air link bandwidth for supported services. The LTE RAN is physically comprised of the equipment at the various remote transmit sites needed to provide coverage including the base stations, antenna systems and connecting network backhaul equipment. Each VIDA Broadband LTE site has a minimum of one radio base station that operates on the 5 MHz Public Safety downlink channel and the 5 MHz uplink channel. Most sites provide additional capacity by using 120 sectorized antenna systems. The base station, or eNodeB as it is referred to in LTE terminology, broadcasts an evolved Media Access Control (MAC) layer to all registered radios. The evolved MAC is responsible for Radio Resource Management (RRM) capabilities including the scheduling of packets over the air link according to users dened priority and QoS prole. Compared to the previous generation of wireless data networks, the LTE RAN achieves the objectives of improved performance in the areas of radio interface throughput, data transmission latency and terminal state transition times. The RAN additionally provides enhanced mobility and traffic management through inter-eNodeB communication protocols designed to provide seamless handoff and load balancing between eNodeBs.

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Network Management and Administration

As network elements incrementally become capable of performing more complex tasks, day to day operational activities become increasingly reliant on the Network Management and Network Administration system. The VIDA Core Network Management and Network Administration solution includes capabilities specic to the 700 MHz broadband network as well as integrated administrative capabilities that apply to VIDA LMR technologies. The VIDA Core Network Management System (NMS) provides a solution for all aspects of traditional management systems in the areas of Fault Management, Conguration Management and Performance Management. Fault Management capabilities include alarm and event monitoring with ltering, correlation and reporting. Conguration Management capabilities include parameter set validation and verication, conguration backup and restore capabilities. System monitoring and traffic usage analysis tools aid in performance tuning and load balancing.

The VIDA Core Unied Administration System (UAS) encompasses the areas of Administration and Security. The UAS is an integrated solution that allows the administrator to setup all aspects of a subscribers prole from a single access point and administrative User Interface (UI). Individual users are congured to use multiple technologies and parameters that are applicable to more than one technology are provisioned automatically without the administrator needing to enter repeated information for each network, technology, or access method. For example, a user can be congured by a single system for both their broadband data services and their LMR voice services, and those LMR voice services can be delivered by narrowband LMR transport or over the broadband network.

Priority Services
Priority services allow Network Administrators to ensure information ow even under the congested conditions which may occur when large numbers of users gather in response to catastrophic events. Unlike commercial networks, which may be prone to overload conditions from non-priority public users during mass disasters, VIDA Broadband LTE networks are only accessible by authorized First Responders. In addition to limiting access to authorized users, VIDA Broadband LTE provides System Administrators with the tools to manage priority and QoS for users and applications across the network. Each user or application has a specic prole which designates the level of priority and/ or allocated bandwidth. With these tools, the highest priority communications (such as critical voice dispatch communications) are guaranteed access across the network. Additionally, high priority video applications can be guaranteed sufficient bandwidth to ensure that quality of the video does not degrade as the network capacity gets allocated to other users.

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VIDA LMR Integration

Harris push-to-talk over cellular offering provides a voice solution that integrates with other LMR systems through the VIDA Core. The VIDA Network Switching Center (NSC) is capable of integrating P25, OpenSky, EDACS and Conventional LMR voice systems. Each systems voice data is carried as IP packets over the VIDA Core and are converted to the required format at each technologies point of attachment to the core. These capabilities may now be extended to integrate with Harris push-totalk application running over the Public Safety broadband network. This is a fully integrated software based solution that provides all of the features of LMR voice including areas such as group calling, individual call, simul-select and patch. VIDA Broadband LTE users can also seamlessly interoperate with other First Responders on traditional narrowband voice networks using the P25 Inter Sub-System Interface (ISSI) or NetworkFirst interoperability gateways. By connecting to other manufacturers P25 network with VIDA Core Network P25 ISSI gateway, broadband users can have end-to-end AES encrypted conversations with users on a regional or nationwide basis. NetworkFirst interoperability gateways allow broadband users to immediate connectivity to users on legacy systems regardless of narrowband brand or band.

Backhaul
LTE networks require signicant backhaul at each site to support the over-the-air data rates that can be delivered with the LTE technology. The peak user capacity for a sector is nearly 30 Mbps, with an average capacity of closer to 10 Mbps. As a typical site can be constructed from multiple sectors, a site requires a backhaul capacity of 10 Mbps to 100 Mbps, depending on the network use cases and the assumptions about the network loading. The VIDA Broadband LTE system supports a at IP architecture and can be integrated in with a wide variety of backhaul solutions such as ber, microwave, or carrier Ethernet. For sites that do not have adequate backhaul, Harris can use the VIDA Broadband 4.9 GHz WiMAX platform to provide last mile connectivity for the LTE system. This backhaul system can be congured and managed by the same centralized administration system as the rest of the broadband network.

Applications
The VIDA Broadband LTE packet data network provides a Public Safety solution capable of hosting virtually any IP based software application. Advanced traffic management capabilities allow the VIDA Broadband LTE solution to specify priorities and QoS on a per application or user basis. This ability allows multiple applications to be deployed and run concurrently without risk of them interfering with each other or adversely affecting another users application performance. Currently supported

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applications include video surveillance, mobile office, mission critical push-to-talk voice over broadband, situational awareness, transit data, and traffic control.

User Equipment
VIDA Broadband LTE supports a suite of LTE compliant User Equipment (UE) with various form factors and capabilities. Current mobile and handheld solutions include mobile modules for use with vehicular-mounted laptops or other portable data devices and a multi-protocol vehicular router solution. Various xed solutions may be provided directly or through integration services in the areas of video surveillance, traffic light controllers and intelligent road signs. All Harris terminals will be compliant with LTE Release 8 and are upgradeable as newer releases become available. Because the VIDA Broadband LTE network is compliant with the FCCs mandated technology for 700 MHz Public Safety broadband, the network will support any other vendors equipment that is designed to operate on the Public Safety 700 MHz spectrum.

Reliability and Redundancy

VIDA Broadband LTE takes advantage of the standards open interfaces to deploy hardened reliable solutions by providing redundant equipment congurations at various points within the network. Starting at the LTE RAN and moving up through the elements within the VIDA Core Network, each network interface allows multiple interconnections by multiplexing between network nodes. Each network node is capable of communicating with multiple nodes at the next link within the communications hierarchy. For example, an LTE base station can communicate with multiple Mobility Management Entities and a Mobility Management Entity can communicate with multiple base stations. Network elements within the VIDA Core Network may simultaneously be congured as load balancing peers and N+N redundant backups. This allows distribution of network traffic with the advantage of fault tolerance in case of any particular node failure. Additional elements may also be congured in a strictly redundant capacity in which they only become active during a failover scenario. Network elements are fully integrated into the Network Management System which provides real-time notications of all failover scenarios.

3. VIDA Core Network Description

The VIDA Core Network (VIDA CN) is a highly customized 3GPP Release 8 attened IP core. The simplied architecture combined with the addition of enhanced QoS features provides marked improvements in jitter and latency times over previous hybrid 3GPP circuit-switched/packet data networks. The VIDA CN provides interfaces to the LTE RAN to support the access control, service provision, roaming and management functions required by a wireless network.

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These functions are distributed among the following VIDA CN elements as dened in the 3GPP LTE standards:

Home Subscriber Server (HSS) Mobility Management Entity (MME) Policy Charging and Rules Function (PCRF) Packet Data Network gateway (PDN-GW) Serving Gateway (S-GW)

The Home Subscriber Server (HSS) is a concatenation of the traditional Home Location Register (HLR) and the Authentication Center (AuC). The HSS is provisioned by the UAS and is in charge of storing and updating a database containing all of the users subscription information, the users International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) and approved QoS proles. In addition the HSS contains the users shared secret and is in charge of generating security information used for terminal authentication and radio link ciphering and integrity protection.

The Mobility Management Entity (MME) caches information it receives from the HSS when a subscriber enters the network. This includes QoS and subscriber parameters which are used to authenticate the subscriber and trigger the establishment of radio bearers (a connection-less IP packet service that acts a virtual circuit) between the terminal and the target eNodeB. Since a single MME domain hosts multiple eNodeBs the subscriber is able to maintain state as it hands off from base station to base station. The MME performs tracking area updates to maintain location information for terminals in

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idle state and initiates pages of the mobile device. Due to the always-on nature of the LTE network, the MME is able to bring the UE from idle to connected mode in under 50 ms.

The Policy Charging and Rules Function (PCRF) is where the Network administrators allocate services, priority and QoS to users, devices, types of services, and even individual applications. The PCRF is the network side aggregation point for subscriber proles. The PCRF integrates to the Packet Data Network Gateway (PDN-GW) to allow supported applications sets and set QoS parameters for subscribers when they enter the network. The PCRF also provides published interfaces which allow application servers to extend the policy prole through the entire network. Like the HSS, the PCRF database is populated from the UAS subscriber base.

The PDN-GW provides the termination point for the User Equipment when accessed via the packet data network, whether a private network or the public internet. PDN-GWs provide terminal IP addresses when the subscriber enters the network and may be either static or selected from an address pool. The PCRF provides the PDN-GW with the information required to perform policy enforcement. Policy enforcement uses Traffic Flow Templates (TFT) to map packets to network bearers with established QoS parameters. The TFT species IP address and ports which the PDN-GW uses to provide a particular application with its required QoS. The PDN-GW additionally provides an access point for inter-networking to LMR or other existing Public Safety networks.

The Serving Gateway (S-GW) provides the termination point of the packet data interface toward the RAN. As the S-GW domain hosts multiple eNodeBs, the S-GW maintains a network bearer between itself and the PDN-GW while the UE moves between eNodeBs attached to the same S-GW. In addition to being a mobility anchor for LTE terminals, the S-GW is also capable of acting as a mobility anchor between LTE and non-LTE 3GPP standardized terminals.

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4. LTE RAN Description

The VIDA Broadband LTE Radio Access Network (LTE RAN) is designed to provide optimum broadband coverage and performance for mission critical Public Safety applications running on the 700 MHz network. A typical LTE RAN design will consist of LTE base stations (referred to as eNodeB in 3GPP standards) deployed at RF sites using sector antennas. In a typical Public Safety deployment, the RAN would be congured to use the 10 MHz of Public Safety broadband spectrum (5 MHz on DL from 763 MHz to 768 MHz, and 5 MHz on the UL from 793 MHz to 798 MHz). If Public Safety is granted access to the D-Block spectrum (758 MHz to 763 MHz and 788 MHz to 793 MHz), then the VIDA Broadband RAN solution can be congured to cover the complete 20 MHz of Band 14 (10 MHz on DL from 758 MHz to 768 MHz, and 10 MHz on the UL from 788 MHz to 798 MHz) without any hardware or software changes.

The VIDA Broadband LTE RAN is designed to maximize the capacity and coverage of the 700 MHz network and can be deployed with Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) technology This allows each base station to use multiple sector antennas, each of which has two cross-polarized RF paths. For terminals that are near the base station, the Harris equipment will use Spatial Multiplexing that effectively doubles the data rate by multiplexing twice the data across the two streams. For terminals

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that are farther from the base station, or have reduced coverage due to terrain, the base station uses TX and RX diversity to extend the range of the cell. As Public Safety systems often have a very high peak load during an incident, the Harris LTE solution implements a load-sharing algorithm between base stations to allow for managing of capacity and users. If a sector becomes overloaded (i.e. numerous rst responders converging during an incident), the overloaded base station will handoff all the users in the cell that can be adequately serviced by adjacent cells, thus reducing to the load on the congested site.

A typical site will have a coverage radius of 1-3 miles, depending on terrain, building clutter, antenna height, etc. For rural sites the cell radius can reach up to 10 miles. Because LTE is an adaptive modulation technology, the data rate is variable, with the highest data rates being available when the user is near the base station and reducing data rates as the user approaches the cell edge. Table I shows the peak and cell edge data rates for the VIDA Broadband LTE system operating in the 700 MHz Public Safety band. The capacity of a sector is a function of where the users are in a cell, as the cell will provide different data rates to different users depending on where the users are in the cell. In LTE, cell resources are allocated in Resource Elements, and the capacity is a function of how many resource elements are allocated to each user. The LTE system uses advanced multicarrier modulation and coding techniques to maximize throughput and coverage of the network. On the downlink (DL), the system uses orthogonal frequency domain multiple access (OFDMA), where the modulation of each carrier can be varied from QPSK to 64-QAM with adaptive coding rates depending on signal conditions. On the uplink (UL), the LTE standard uses single-carrier frequency domain multiplexing (SC-FDMA). This uplink modulation is also a multicarrier technique that allows for variable data rates versus signal conditions, with the added advantage of a lower peak-to-average ratio as compared to the downlink modulation. The low end capacity will occur if all resource elements are allocated to users at the cell edge (~600 kbps on DL and UL), while the maximum capacity will occur if all resource elements are allocated to users in optimum coverage (~18 Mbps on the DL and ~12 Mbps on the UL). In general, the average capacity of a cell can be considered to be 5-10 Mbps on the DL and 3-6 Mbps on the UL.

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Downlink (DL) [kbps] Optimum Coverage Cell Edge Average Capacity 18250 680 5000 - 10000

Uplink (UL) [kbps] 9890 630 3000 - 6000

Table 1 Throughput and Capacity of a typical 700 MHz LTE sector. The throughput is dynamically varied by the base station to each uE between the optimum coverage values and the cell-edge values based on signal conditions. The average capacity is a function of where users are in the cell.

5. Network Management and Administration

The increase in network element capabilities results in an increase in conguration complexity. Without a comprehensive set of management tools, the breadth of conguration options for even a single element can provide a signicant challenge for an administrator to provision the unit and bring it to a fully operational state. When congurations need to be performed for multiple elements and the parameter sets have interdependencies, the aid of a Network Management System (NMS) is essential. Because of these parameter interdependencies, many conguration values must pass a performance verication process as well as the more traditional data type validation process. Network Management Systems can automate verication and validation processes and may reduce the provisioning parameters divulged to the administrator to the minimum set essential for successful network operation. The VIDA Core NMS addresses the issues of system complexity by implementing intelligent software solutions designed to reduce the number of parameters presented to the administrator. Other conguration capabilities provided by the VIDA Core NMS include conguration backup and restore, bulk downloads and support for system wide modications, remote software upgrades and inventory management.

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Performance verication is important because increasingly, equipment settings and parameters which are set individually for each network element become pertinent to overall network performance management. Analysis of the available parameter set allows the network to ensure that each element is set to yield the best performance throughout the network. For example, instead of setting base station transmit power levels to maximize output at every site, the network can determine through heuristic data that site overlap, user throughput, and coverage at some sites will be improved by lowering power output at target sites. With this automated analysis the network can performance tune in real time. These increases in NMS automation have enabled the VIDA Core NMS to become a Self Optimized Network (SON). Other examples of VIDA Broadband LTE SON capabilities are in the area of user capacity congestion and traffic analysis to perform automated load balancing. The NMS may also be congured to forward performance and usage data records to a collection point for offline analysis.

Another result of the enhanced capabilities of a network element is the increase in alarm and performance monitoring. The total number of monitored states is much larger than traditional wireless networks. In addition to fault monitoring, the performance of normal traffic and network events are correlated to anticipate problems before actual faults are detected. Often times an alarm notication is triggered by a symptom of a system failure and does not indicate the actual fault occurring within the network. Fault management logic implemented in the NMS uses the overall state of the network in its analysis and employs alarm correlation algorithms to provide invaluable insight into isolating the underlying problem. The NMS Fault Management capabilities include published SNMP MIBs and the ability to provide a northbound interface for event forwarding to a 3rd party management system.

Subscriber proles are expanding to include information like priorities and QoS as well as authorizations based on applications and authentication capabilities. Often, these expanded proles are different depending on the network being accessed, particularly in regards to the privileges being provided to the users as they roam onto visited networks. User proles may also be congured to support various technologies and types of hardware. The Unied Administration System (UAS) provides a single point of access to a centralized user database. The ability to congure a users authorized application set and dene the QoS parameters for the available applications in a single system simplies and decreases the amount of work required of the administrator. Personalities for LMR voice systems including talkgroups, priority and preemption may be established in the UAS and automatically applied to pushto-talk over broadband applications. In addition, the VIDA Broadband LTE core network includes all the 3GPP standard roaming interfaces to transfer these parameters between roaming users and networks to allow for full interoperability with proper feature sets and capabilities.

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6. Priority Services
Public safety systems use priorities in order to dene preemption behaviors between users within the network. During times of network congestion, higher priority users should be granted access to the network at the expense of lower priority users. When a higher priority user attempts to access a LTE RAN already operating at maximum capacity, the higher priority user is granted access to the network even if it means detaching the lower priority user. Once a higher priority user has obtained access to the RAN, lower priority users are denied access to the network until the higher priority users vacates the network and resources become available. The denial of access assumes that the lower priority users cannot be handed over to an adjacent cell with lower utilization. In addition to managing the priority of users, the network can also assign priority to applications in order to minimize the degradation of applications which are susceptible to interruptions. At the same time, the network will assign Quality of Service (QoS) to an application to ensure it runs correctly within the system. Application priorities are assigned independent of the QoS parameters required to run the application.

The VIDA Broadband LTE network uses the LTE concept of Allocation and Retention Priority (ARP) to dene tiers of users and applications with varying priorities. An ARP is assigned to each Radio Bearer (RB) that gets created over the air link. These priorities are used to congure call admission control and allow higher priority users and applications the ability to preempt lower priority users and applications. This preemption capability ensures higher priority users will obtain network resources during periods of high congestion. ARP is not used for priority in scheduling and delivery of packets.

In addition to an ARP, each RB is associated with a QoS Class Identier, a maximum bit rate and a guaranteed bit rate. The QCI itself is characterized by a bearer type, specifying guaranteed or nonguaranteed bit rate, a priority used for setting scheduling and forwarding precedence, a delay budget in milliseconds and an acceptable packet loss rate. These parameters taken together provide the scheduler with the information it needs to forward data over the air link in the appropriate manner. QCI ensures high priority applications will be allocated resources at the expense of lower priority applications, and those resources will provide the service required for the application to run correctly regardless of network congestion.

When subscriber proles are administered within the network, their proles include a specication of allowed RB along with a set of Traffic Flow Templates (TFT). The TFT allows the administrator to specify IP header addresses and transport layer port numbers to be associated with a particular RB, which in turn associates with a given QoS and priority. This information is then distributed to the HSS and PCRF entities ensuring the proper handling of traffic throughout the VIDA CN and the LTE RAN.

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7. Harris Managed Services

In addition to providing the VIDA Broadband infrastructure, system engineering and deployment services and ongoing maintenance services, Harris can also provide managed services for the on-going operation of VIDA Broadband networks. Public Safety agencies may not view the operation of their 700 MHz broadband network as a core competency or may not want to incur the time and expense of managing the network. For this reason, Harris can provide a wide range of assistance to ensure the timely and successful deployment of the network.

The rst level of managed services is the use of Harris personnel to operate the Core Network, administer and provision users, and monitor the network performance on a 24/7 basis. Operating out of a Harris Network Operations Center, the Harris network management team provides access to personnel experienced with all aspects of the network operation, including managing the backhaul, the LTE RAN, the VIDA CN and, if necessary, an applications help desk.

The next level of managed services includes the use of a Harris Corporation-owned VIDA CN for control of a customer-owned LTE RAN. By using the Harris VIDA CN for all network packet switching and service provisioning, customers can reduce the overall cost of deployment of the network. The use of the existing VIDA CN also means a faster deployment, as these critical facilities are already constructed and operational. Public Safety agencies merely need to deploy the LTE RAN to be on the air with mobile broadband services.

8. Broadband Application Support

The Harris VIDA Broadband networks have been developed to provide a scalable wide-area data platform for the delivery of mission critical applications to serve both rst responders and other public service customers including departments of transportation, public transit, and municipal-owned utilities. The VIDA Broadband LTE system provides wide-area, mobile broadband coverage using the 700 MHz Public Safety spectrum to support a nearly endless set of applications such as video surveillance, mobile office and productivity, mission critical push-to-talk voice over broadband, situational awareness, transit data, traffic control, and smart grid. Through the use of advanced QoS features available in LTE, Harris has implemented an LTE solution that allows the simultaneous support of this wide array of applications by a wide array of users on a single unied network. The Harris LTE network allows for individual users and applications to be assigned air link priority and bandwidth through 3GPP QoS

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mechanisms. For example, a rst responder could be allocated a high-priority low data-rate bearer for mission critical PTT voice services, a second tier -priority high bandwidth bearer for streaming video situational awareness, and a third low-priority bearer for mobile office and reporting applications. While the mobile broadband capabilities of the VIDA Broadband LTE network can support virtually any existing or emerging IP-based software suite, there are few classes of applications that are of particular interest to Public Safety. This section highlights some of the key application areas and features, and highlight how these applications can be enabled and implemented on the Harris network.

Mobile Data:
One of the key drivers for high bandwidth mission critical communications is the increasing need for in-eld data such as mug shots, streaming video, situational awareness, hazardous materials information, etc. The VIDA Broadband LTE network supports a wide variety of Public Safety mobile data applications through the use of an in-vehicle mobile terminal or vehicular-mounted laptop. This mobile terminal can be connected to the 700 MHz network using an LTE air card or an external LTE radio modem. A rst responder in the eld will have full access to all network resources such as NCIC databases, situational awareness video, mug shots, etc. In addition, critical eld information such as in-car video of a high-speed chase can be uploaded back to the dispatch center in real time.

Mission Critical Push To Talk Voice over Broadband:

One of the key differentiators of the VIDA Broadband LTE system is that it is built upon the VIDA core, which is a true end-end IP based voice-data system for Public Safety. Through the use of the VIDA Voice/Data platform, Public Safety users get access to all of their mission critical push-to-talk voice services over the broadband 700 MHz network. For example, a scene commander who is using a 700 MHz LTE portable terminal running the VIDA P25 voice application will be able to seamlessly communicate with a P25 talk group, some of whom may be operating on voice over broadband and some of whom are operating on P25 voice over narrowband Public Safety channels. In addition, the VIDA Voice over Broadband solution augments the typical push-to-talk voice experience to add additional situational awareness information, such as user location, to the trusted and proven pushto-talk voice experience. Users with multimode (narrowband and broadband) radio can seamlessly roam from narrowband to broadband networks without any loss of the push-to-talk voice experience.

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Surveillance Video:
One of the major applications that are driving the need for broadband networks in Public Safety is the use of surveillance video. As with most network applications, if a wired network is available, it is preferable to carry surveillance video over a wired network due to videos high bandwidth requirements. However, wired connectivity for video brings along a host of deployment problems, including the need to dig city streets to eld ber or cable-based wired broadband networks. In many cases, it is far easier to implement a wireless solution when video is needed from certain strategic locations. The VIDA Broadband 4.9 GHz platform provides an optimal solution for wireless video surveillance solutions. This WiMAX-based platform is optimized to provide high-capacity wide area surveillance video using the 50 MHz available to Public Safety in the 4.9 GHz band. This 50 MHz provides greater than 100 Mbps of capacity for wireless video. The VIDA Broadband LTE system provides a wide-area mobile overlay which can be used to provide another 10-20 Mbps of capacity for use in locations where 4.9 GHz coverage is problematic, or where mobile surveillance is required. As the 4.9 GHz WiMAX platform and the 700 MHz LTE platform are both built on the VIDA core, a single network can be used to congure, manage, and optimize the video deployment.

Traffic Control:
Modern advances in traffic management and traffic control allow for signicant improvement to resolve congestion problems and optimized movement of people and vehicles throughout urban areas. These traffic management solutions provide relief from daily traffic jams and are used in case of natural disasters or incidents where large mass evacuations are required. In order for these methods to be employed, however, a network must be provided to give low-latency communications to all of the elements on the traffic system including the signals and sensors at each intersection. The VIDA Broadband LTE network provides an excellent low-latency platform for providing network connectivity to traffic signals and sensors. As explained in Section 3 (LTE Core) LTE provides low-latency communications and allows for a large number of clients per cell. Through the use of QoS and bandwidth partitioning techniques, these traffic control applications can be integrated into a multi-agency network. In most instances, the data rate requirements of traffic control will likely use less than 5% of the capacity of a 700 MHz broadband network.

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9. Public Safety Broadband User Equipment

The 700 MHz LTE technology that is embodied in the VIDA Broadband LTE network is an open standard, and any compliant user equipment developed by other vendors will operate on the VIDA Broadband LTE network. Harris is developing a full portfolio of Public Safety-grade user equipment for the 700 MHz broadband networks. The user or subscriber equipment falls in three broad classes of usage and form factors:

700 MHz LTE mobile terminals these LTE radios (or modems) are connected or integrated into MDTs, hardened Laptops and PDAs, and other types of portable equipment requiring mobile broadband service.

700 MHz LTE user devices these devices have network access to support voice and data services for end users.

700 MHz LTE xed network devices these devices provide connectivity for xed network installations (such as wireless video cameras).

700 MHz LTE Mobile Terminals

The mobile terminals are intended to provide mobile data capability to existing vehicular mounted laptops or other portable devices. These existing devices will accept either internally or externally mounted 700 MHz LTE wireless modules. To provide this end-user data service, Harris is developing an LTE module which can be used with other commercial MDTs.

700 MHz LTE User Devices

Private 700 MHz broadband networks enable an entirely new generation of subscriber devices for Public Safety. These devices take some styling and functionality cues from existing consumer-grade cellular smart phones, but are optimized to operate in mission-critical situations. This means hardening the case for rugged environmental use, sizing the control surfaces for gloved hand operation, and providing instant (and usable) access for Public Safety features like PTT voice over broadband. Harris is applying our decades of experience in Public Safety radios to develop a suite of user devices built to meet the demanding requirements of Public Safety.

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700 MHz LTE Fixed Network Devices

Harris is also providing hardened 700 MHz LTE data devices for xed applications. These radios are encased in easy-to-install ruggedized

case aluminum enclosures. These devices also have external antennas to optimize coverage and bandwidth. With the xed network devices, broadband applications such as wireless video surveillance can be installed in any location that has radio coverage and minimal power requirements.

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Harris Public Safety and Professional Communications (PSPC) is a leading supplier of assured communications systems and equipment for public safety, federal, utility, commercial and transportation markets, with products ranging from the most advanced IP voice and data networks, to industry leading multiband, multimode radios, to public safety-grade broadband video and data solutions. Harris PSPC has over 80 years of experience supplying assured communications systems, products and services and supports over 500 systems around the world. Harris is the leading global supplier of secure radio communications and embedded high-grade encryption solutions for military, government and commercial organizations.

About Harris Corporation

Harris is an international communications and information technology company serving government and commercial markets in more than 150 countries. Headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, the company has annual revenue of $5 billion and 15,000 employees including nearly 7,000 engineers and scientists. Harris is dedicated to developing best-in-class assured communications products, systems, and services. Additional information about Harris Corporation is available at www.harris.com.

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