Development of a set of Technical Specifications related to the Future Railway Mobile Communication System

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The Future Railway Mobile Communication System (FRMCS) will succeed GSM-R as one of the essential elements of the European Railway Traffic Management System (ERTMS). It will support railway digitalisation and service innovation. This proposal is linked to the standardisation request under finalization (following expiry of M/570) regarding the definition of system specification requirements for the Future Railway Mobile Communication System (FRMCS) in support of Directive (EU) 2016/797. The objective of this proposal is to develop a set of Technical Specifications in response to this standardisation request as follows: i) A Technical Specification on the FRMCS System Architecture ii) A Technical Specification on the FRMCS Transport Stratum iii) A Technical Specification on the FRMCS Service Stratum iv) A Technical Specification on the FRMCS trackside functions and interfaces v) A Technical Specification on the FRMCS radio parameters and related conformance testing Given the complexity of the topic, this proposal does not constitute a complete response to the FRMCS Standardisation Request under finalization (following expiry of M/570). Additional specifications covering the interworking with GSM-R as well as the train onboard functions are required and are developed outside of the present proposal. All the work shall remain under the supervision of the ETSI Technical Committee on Rail Telecommunications (TC RT). This proposal would provide a subset of the global specifications enabling the initiation of the FRMCS purchasing process, a key step towards the migration from legacy GSM-R to FRMCS and the continuation of the successful deployment in Europe of interoperable wireless systems for critical train communications spearheaded by GSM-R more than twenty years ago.