1. IEEE 1609 Working Group – Project Status Report
Date:
Author(s):
Name
Company
Address
Phone
Thomas M Kurihara
IEEE P1609 WG Chair
3800 Fairfax Drive #207
Arlington, VA USA
+1 (703)

2. What’s New Since September 2009?
changes the document number from
Chicago workshop with ISO TC204 WG 16 resulted in a subsequent ETSI TC-ITS and WG16 meeting and agreement to a request to establish a liaison and cooperative agreement between ETSI TC-ITS and IEEE P1609 Working Group
P1609 Working Group meeting in September approved a project for an over-the-air data exchange standard for electronic payments systems (EPS) to facilitate interoperability among Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) EPS services (P PAR submitted for approval)
PAR for P was approved in September 2008
Joint meeting planned with SAE Ground Vehicles Technical Committee J2735, DSRC Message Set and Data Dictionary in June 2009, Troy, MI

3. PROGRAM OF WORK
P1609.0, WAVE – Architecture (PAR approved December 2006)
IEEE Trial-use Standard TM-2006, WAVE - Resource Manager
IEEE Trial-use Standard TM-2006, WAVE - Security Services for Applications and Management Messages
IEEE Trial-use Standard TM-2007 WAVE - Networking Services
IEEE Trial-use Standard TM-2006, WAVE - Multi-channel Operations
IEEE Standard 1455TM-1999(2006), IEEE Standard for Message Sets for Vehicle/Roadside Communications
IEEE P1609.5, WAVE – Communication Manager (PAR approved September 2008 until 2012)
Note: P1609 family of standards are intended to operate with IEEE P802.11p, Wireless Access
in Vehicular Environment (WAVE) and is the wireless communication system component of
the U. S. Department of Transportation Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Program and
the Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) Initiative using 5.9GHz Federal Communication
Commission (FCC) allocated wireless spectrum for North America.

4. WAVE DEVICE MEDIUM UPPER IEEE 1609.1, LAYERS et al IEEE 1609.2 WAVE
SECURITY
SERVICES
IEEE
NETWORK
LAYER
P1609.0
Architecture
IEEE
LOWER
LAYERS
IEEE
IEEE P802.11p
Note: The figure illustrates the
relationship among the IEEE 1609 and
IEEE standards (before adding
Communication Manager (P1609.5)
and Over-the-air Data Exchange for
e-Payment Systems (P ) project
proposals.
MEDIUM

5. WAVE Architecture - P1609.0 SCOPE STATUS PAR APPROVED, December 2006
“This standard describes the Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE/DSRC) architecture and services necessary for multi-channel DSRC/WAVE devices to communicate in a mobile vehicular environment.”
STATUS
PAR APPROVED, December 2006
Project Author and Editor assigned, draft in development, proposals circulated for comment in November 2007, revised draft circulated in February 2008, discussed during its April and August 2008 WG meetings, and work continues as additional requirements are considered
Projected completion and approval dates are “open”

6. Communication Manager – P1609.5
SCOPE
“This standard specifies communication management services for Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE). This standard defines communication management services in support of wireless connectivity among vehicle-based devices, and between fixed roadside devices and vehicle-based devices for Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments.”
PURPOSE
“The purpose of this standard is to collect in a single document, the communication management services previously included in and based on experience in use during the trial-use period. ”
STATUS
PAR approved in September 2008
Initial discussion on content started at April 2008 meeting
Requirements were discussed at the September working group meeting
Initial draft to be available in advance of the February 2009 meeting
Projected completion and approval dates are “open”

7. Communication Manager – P1609.5
Existing
SAPs
Notional Architecture for WAVE Communications Manager (subject to change)

8. IEEE P Standard for WAVE - Over-the-Air Data Exchange Protocol for ITS Interoperability – Electronic Payment Services
SCOPE
This standard defines a basic level of technical interoperability for electronic payment equipment, i.e. onboard unit (OBU) and roadside equipment (RSE) using DSRC.
It does not provide a full solution for interoperability, and it does not define other parts of the electronic payment-system, other services, other technologies and non-technical elements of interoperability.
This standard is not intended to define technology and processes to activate and store data into the OBU (“personalization”)

9. P1609.11 Purpose PURPOSE Status
This standard provides an open standard for the relevant interface in DSRC based transaction systems, providing a common interoperable service for device identity and payment authentication, and payment data transfer
This allows for interoperability between systems of different vendors and/or operators
Facilitates Intelligent Transportation Systems goal for over-the-air interoperability goal among EPS
Status
PAR submitted for NESCOM consideration at Dec 2009 meeting
Expected completion in CY2010

10. SCHEDULE Meetings February 3-5, 2009, San Diego, CA
March 24-26, 2009, Annapolis or San Diego (TBD)
June 16-18, 2009, SAE HQ, Troy, MI, (pending availability of a conference room)
June 17, 2009, Joint Meeting with SAE J2735 (date confirmed, location pending availability)
Meetings to be scheduled at 2-3 month intervals until program of work is completed

11. IEEE P1609 Project Editors 1609.0 – J.Moring/F. Simon/
1609.1Rev – A. Malarky
Rev – W. Whyte
Rev – J. Moring
Rev – J. Moring
– J. Moring
– Editor TBD
Device Test & Certification – R. Roebuck

12. LIAISON CONTACTS Vehicle Safety Consortium-A
The following are either confirmed or pending liaisons to other organizations:
SAE Technical Committee, DSRC Message Sets and Message Framework (J2735)
D. Kavner
VII Consortium (VIIC)
S. Andrews
Vehicle Safety Consortium-A
J. Kenney
VII End-to-End Integration Project Team (E2E IPT)
D. Kavner
ISO TC204 WG16, CALM M5
R. Roy See: WG16 public docs:
ASTM Committee E17.51 (E )
L. Armstrong
IEEE P802.11p Task Group (802.11™-2007 as amended)
Omni-Air Consortium (Conformance and Test of WAVE Systems)
R. Roebuck
IEEE Standards Department, Program Manager
M. Ceglia
IEEE RAC Member – T. Kurihara, IEEE VTS/ITS, P1609 WG Chair -
TIA TR-48, Vehicular Telematics (Chartered August 2007) – T. Kurihara, IEEE VTS/ITS
ETSI TC-ITS/ISO TC204/WG16 CALM/IEEE 1609/ ad hoc -
WAVE in North America (IEEE p Amendment to IEEE Standard )
K.1 Introduction
This Annex provides additional descriptions and requirements for implementing WAVE for stations in North America.
The primary purpose of the WAVE mode in North America is to provide wireless communications between RSUs and OBUs at highway speeds. The FCC in the US and the CRTC in Canada are the regulatory authorities governing the GHz band (5.9 GHz Band) use of spectrum for non-federal government users. In North America the FCC and CRTC provide oversight in the operations of stations including the Band Plan, Power Limits, Emission Limits, Antenna height, and Control Channel-Service Channel Usage (see CFR Title 47) .
An RSU shall be restricted to the geographic region where it is licensed to operate. Portable or hand-held RSUs are permitted to operate on the Control Channel and Service Channels where they do not interfere with another RSU according to its site registration.
K.2 WAVE Channelization
Clause defines the WAVE Band and Channels of operation in North America. Stations can communicate on seven 10 MHz channels in a special band for which DSRC is a primary user and unlicensed operation is prohibited. In the to GHz band only the WAVE mode shall be used.
K.3 Priority Communications for Public Safety
The FCC categorizes WAVE applications into safety of life, public safety, and private. Two channels, Channel 172 and Channel 184, are reserved for communications of public safety applications Only User priorities 4, 5, 6, and 7 defined in IEEE P802.11e™, Clause 6.1.1, shall be used for public safety applications.
K.4 WAVE Channel priority screening
The SME shall implement a mechanism to screen messages that are created with high priorities and are intended to be transmitted on Channels 172 and 184. If a packet is destined for Channel 172 or 184 it must have a priority level of 4, 5, 6, or 7. If it does not the packet 1 will be rejected and a response will be sent to indicate that this process has failed.

13. Related Projects – ISO TC204 Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) WG16 CALM
SCOPE:
Family of international standards for Communications access for land mobiles (CALM) that specifies a common architecture, network protocols, and communications interfaces for wireless communications using different technologies, such as cellular 2nd generation, cellular 3rd generation, infra-red, 5 GHz micro-wave, 60 GHz millimetre-wave, and mobile wireless broadband communications. Other wireless communications interfaces may be added at a later date. CALM wireless communications interfaces are designed to provide broadcast, point-point, vehicle-to-vehicle, and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications in the ITS sector.

14. ISO TC204 WG16 CALM Projects
For Reference from 2-4 September 2008 Workshop ISO TC204 WG16 & IEEE WG P1609, Chicago, IL
CD 21210: CALM networking for Internet Connectivity
CD 21212: CALM 2G medium
CD 21213: CALM 3G medium
IS 21214:2006 CALM IR medium (already published)‏
CD 21215: CALM M5 medium (cf. IEEE TGp)
WD 21216: CALM MM medium
CD 21217: CALM global architecture
DIS 21218: CALM lower layer service access points
CD 24101: CALM application management
CD 24102: CALM station manager
CD 29281: CALM non-IP networking (cf. IEEE 1609)
WD 29282: CALM applications using satellite
CONTACT:
Dr. Hans-Joachim Fischer

15. ISO TC204 WG16 & IEEE P1609 WG Workshop, 2-4 Sep 2008
SUMMARY RESULTS
The cooperative work on 1609 should form an ad-hoc working group based on Webex or similar. This will be done by invitation to mail reflector ETSI TC ITS, IEEE P1609, p and ISO CALM. Hans-Joachim Fischer will take the lead to send out an invitation for the first meeting within two weeks.
Scott Cadzow will take the lead to invite on security to send out an invitation for the first meeting within two weeks.
Andreas Festag (to be confirmed!) will take the lead to invite on Geo protocols and send out an invitation for the first meeting within two weeks.
Example of collaboration (to be confirmed)
“The revision of the current ETSI, ISO and IEEE standards relevant to P1609, will be accomplished in an open, joint cooperation between ETSI, IEEE and ISO where relevant requirements from ISO and ETSI amend and extend P1609. Relevant ISO standards, e.g., ISO 21215, 21217, 24102, 29281, should reference IEEE p and P1609 where relevant and vice versa.”

16. Related Projects – SAE J2735
SAE Ground Vehicle Systems Technical Committee J2735, Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) Message Set Dictionary (Started:12/03/03)
SCOPE (Extracted from J2735-D25 ( ))
“This SAE Recommended Practice is intended as a guide toward standard practice and is subject to change to keep pace with experience and technical advances. This SAE Recommended Practice specifies standard message sets, data frames and data elements for use by applications intended to utilize the 5.9 GHz Dedicated Short Range Communications for Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (DSRC/WAVE, referenced in this document simply as “DSRC”), communications systems. The scope is limited to specifying initial representative message structure and providing sufficient background information to allow readers to properly interpret the DSRC standards and message definitions from the point of view of an application developer.”
STATUS
Draft J2735-D26, pending approval in 2008 and publication in 2009
CONTACT
T. Schaffnit

17. Related Projects – ETSI ITS
Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC) provide communications between a vehicle and the roadside in specific locations, for example toll plazas. They may then be used to support specific Intelligent Transport System applications such as Electronic Fee Collection.
DSRC are for data-only systems and operate on radio frequencies in the 5,725 MHz to 5,875 MHz Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) band. DSRC systems consist of Road Side Units (RSUs) and the On Board Units (OBUs) with transceivers and transponders. The DSRC standards specify the operational frequencies and system bandwidths, but also allow for optional frequencies which are covered (within Europe) by national regulations.
DSRC systems are used in the majority of European Union countries, but these systems are currently not totally compatible. Therefore, standardization is essential in order to ensure pan-European interoperability, particularly for applications such as electronic fee collection, for which the European imposes a need for interoperability of systems.
Standardization will also assist with the provision and promotion of additional services using DSRC, and help ensure compatibility and interoperability within a multi-vendor environment.
CEN TC 278 produced the following standards: EN 12253, EN 12795, EN [ISO 15628] and EN for DSRC.
Reference:
Contact: K. Evensen

18. CEN TC278 - Road transport and traffic telematics
Scope:
The CEN Technical Committee (TC) 278 has been progressing the standardisation of Road Traffic and Transport Telematics (RTTT). The work comprises over 50 Work Items (WI) classed either as application specific, databases, interfaces or basic concepts. These work items are addressed by 14 Working Groups (WG)
Reference:
Details on the work program, status and progress of CEN/TC278 consult the CONVERGE Deliverable Status and progress of transport telematics standardisation, available from the library

19. CEN TC278 - Road transport and traffic telematics
PROGRAM OF WORK
WG1 Automatic fee collection and access control
*WG2 Freight and Fleet management systems
WG3 Public transport Bernard Laurens
WG4 Traffic and traveller information
*WG5 Traffic control
*WG6 Parking management
WG7 Geographic databases
WG8 Road data traffic/Elaboration, storage and distribution 
WG9 Dedicated short-range communication - Carl-Herbert Rokitansky
WG10 Man-machine interface
*WG11 Subsystem and intersystem interfaces
WG12 Automatic vehicle and equipment identification - Knut Evenson
*WG13 Architecture and terminology - Bob Williams
WG 14 After theft systems for stolen vehicles
WGs can be clustered into four groups:
· WGs: 10 and 13 dealing with common specifications and terminology, independent of application; · WGs: 1,2,3,4,5,6,12 and 14 dealing with specific applications; · WGs: 7 and 8 defining common solutions for data exchange and location referencing; · WGs: 9 and 11 dealing with communication technologies and communication interfaces.
The *WGs 2,5,6,11 and 13 are currently inactive/dormant.

20. ITU-R SG8 – Mobile, WP8A –Land Mobile, WG2 - ITS
M (06/05) Intelligent transport systems - Dedicated short range communications at 5.8 GHz  Intelligent transport systems - Dedicated short range communications at 5.8 GHz. The technical and operational characteristics of both methods are described. 1.1 Introduction DSRC is a dedicated mobile radiocommunications system for vehicles that travel on roads.

21. ITU-T GSC-13 Study Activity
The 13th Global Standards Collaboration meeting (Boston, USA, July 2008)
Recognizing:
a) resolution GSC-9/6 (GRSC): Supporting Automotive Crash
Notification (ACN) by Public Wireless Communications Networks;
b) resolution GSC-10/07: (GRSC) Supporting Automotive Crash
c) resolution GSC-11/08: (GRSC) Automotive Crash Notification
(Revised);
d) resolution GSC-11/09: (GRSC) Support for Vehicle Safety
Messaging; and
e) resolution GSC-12/10 (GRSC) GSC ITS Task Force.

22. ITU-T GSC-13 Study Activity
Considering:
a) that the lifetime of vehicles exceeds that of any particular generation of public wireless networks;
b) that vehicle manufacturers in each part of the world design and manufacturer vehicles for others parts of the world;
c) that there are very large vehicle populations;
d) that international harmonisation of standards for communications for vehicle safety is desirable in advance of deployment of vehicles using such communications;
e) that many governments have made reducing vehicle deaths and injuries a priority;
f) that vehicle crashes can be reduced by communicating information about dangerous conditions to vehicles, or by communicating directly with vehicles to provide safety related services;
g) that several key issues to enable such services require international coordination and
coordination between and among Participating Standards Organizations (PSOs);
h) that ITU-T APSC TELEMOV is chartered as a cooperation group on all aspects of standardization related to telecommunications within and for motor vehicles and has been hosting the GSC ITS Task Force since GSC-11
(see: apsc/special-actions.html); and
i) that the GSC ITS Task Force has delivered a set of recommendations for standards collaborations activities in support of automotive crash notification (ACN), vehicle safety communications (VSC), software reconfigurable radios (SRR) and location referencing (gsc12_open_26: GSC ITS TF Report to GSC-12 v doc).

23. ITU-T GSC-13 Study Activity
Resolves:
1) to endorse the continuation of the GSC ITS Task Force hosted by ITU-T APSC
TELEMOV and requests the Task Force to:
a) use the recommendations in the report as the basis for ongoing work;
b) serve as a coordination point for global standardization activities and further the
recommendations noted in the report; and in particular to recommend and facilitate specific mechanisms for this coordination;
c) make recommendations to GSC on related spectrum issues and technologies for VSC,
including an approach for development of specific ITS protocols to support VSC at 700MHz;
d) recommend the scope for specific standards needed to enable Software Reconfigurable
Radio (SRR) for automotive applications at the next GSC meeting; and
e) report on progress in each of these areas at the next GSC meeting; and
2) to request the Participating Standards Organisations to review the GSC ITS Task
Force report and their national/regional activities in each of the topic areas and
report on progress.

24. Joint Workshop on 5.9 GHz Vehicular Communications
Background
Sponsor: TC 204 WG 16
• When: 2-4 September 2008
• Where: Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza, Chicago, IL
• Scope and purpose:
– to disseminate information from:
current standardization efforts around the world experience gained in prototyping of equipment and software initial results from real-world tests being conducted by various programs, projects and collaborations around the world
– to decide how best to incorporate lessons learned into a set of global harmonized standards as openly and as efficiently as possible

25. Joint Workshop on 5.9 GHz Vehicular Communications
Tentative Outline:
– Session 1 (2 September 1PM – 8PM): Status of standardization efforts
(CALM M5 / Lower layer SAPs / Management / FAST networking /
Architecture, IEEE p, ETSI TC ITS WG2 Architecture / WG3
networking / WG4 PHY layer / …)
– Session 2 (3 September 8AM – 12PM): Status of various prototyping
and testing efforts (VICC program, CVIS project, C2C-CC testing, …)
– Session 3 (3 September 2PM – 6PM): Development of consensus on
the requirements for V2V and V2I 5.9 GHz communication systems and
identification of areas in the current standards that need to be
changed/harmonized
– Session 4 (4 September 7AM – (8AM!) – 1PM): Detailed technical
discussions of what is currently missing in the standards (if anything)
and development of a plan to achieve a set of technically complete,
harmonized standards (who is responsible for what and a schedule).

26. Chicago Meeting Proposal
The idea is to take the set of overlapping standards from ISO, IEEE, ETSI and IETF, and develop them into a set of standards that are not overlapping but still complete ( mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive).
• To achieve this, the meeting proposes the following:
– The ITS Station Reference Architecture shown above and presented by
Knut Evensen, should be generally accepted as the common reference architecture and form the basis for the standards consolidation.
– The next task is to decide on who takes the lead to develop and maintain the various technical standards, e.g. security, radio interfaces, geo-referenced protocols.
– One example: The revision of the current ETSI, ISO and IEEE standards relevant to P1609, will be accomplished in an open, joint cooperation between ETSI, IEEE and ISO where relevant requirements from ISO and ETSI amend and extend P1609. Relevant ISO standards, e.g. ISO 21215, 21217, 24102, 29281, should reference IEEE p and P1609 where relevant and vice versa.

27. Chicago Meeting Results
The cooperative work on 1609 should form an ad-hoc
working group based on Webex or similar. This will be
done by invitation to mail reflector ETSI TC ITS, IEEE
P1609, p and ISO CALM. Hans-Joachim Fischer
will take the lead to send out an invitation for the first
meeting within two weeks.
• Scott Cadzow will take the lead to invite on security to
send out an invitation for the first meeting within two
weeks.
• Andreas Festag (to be confirmed!) will take the lead to
invite on Geo protocols and send out an invitation for the
first meeting within two weeks.

28. ETSI Meeting Results Background
ETSI TC ITS recognizes and affirms the results of the Chicago joint workshop organized by TC204 WG16 in September 2008 on collaboration in support of the development of a complimentary set of international standards for ITS
• At the Chicago workshop, three individuals from ETSI TC ITS, one from ISO TC204 WG16, one from IETF MEXT and one individual from IEEE P1609 agreed to take the lead in beginning the process of harmonization and development of standards in specific areas of interest to IEEE /P1609, ISO TC204 WG16, IETF MEXT and ETSI TC ITS
– 5GHz MAC&PHY areas - Hans-Joachim Fischer
– Security areas - Scott Cadzow
– Geonetworking related areas - Andreas Festag
– IPv6 Networking and Mobility areas – Thierry Ernst
– ITS Networking related areas – (conditional acceptance) John Moring
– Architecture area – Knut Evensen
These individuals have agreed to set up ad hoc groups to start the work now and will send invitations for participants to all relevant SDO reflectors

29. ETSI Meeting Results (con’t)
• ETSI TC ITS will provide support for the activities, and requests ETSI Secretariat to provide any necessary practical support for these activities
• Both ETSI TC ITS and IEEE P1609 have already agreed to appoint official points of contact
– ETSI TC ITS: Soren Hess
– IEEE P1609: Tom Kurihara
• The following are invited to appoint official points of contact
– TC 204 WG16:
– IEEE
– IETF MEXT
– …
• The ETSI TC ITS Chairman will develop a strategy document to coordinate the ETSI input

30. ETSI Meeting Results (con’t)
Everybody who wants to join a mailing reflector shall simply send a request to You will then be notified about all the details. The tools used for web meetings are currently being selected. You will be notified ASAP RADIO: The first web meeting should happen soon. The following dates are possible: October November Start of the meetings: 9 am ET /15:00h Central European Time Please tell me your preferred dates ASAP Sincerely,
Dr. Hans-Joachim Fischer. ESF GmbH
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Note: The ETSI Meeting Results slides are extracted from message sent by Dr. Hans-Joachim Fischer. ESF Gmbh