Telecommunications Service Priority

Telecommunications Service Priority (TSP) efforts provide organizations engaged in national security and emergency preparedness functions with priority provisioning and restoration of telecommunications services that are vital to coordinating and responding to crises. 

A telecommunications service user with a TSP assignment is assured of receiving service by the service vendor before a non-TSP service user. 

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Motivated by the importance of vehicular communications, in 1999, the United States Federal Communication Comission (FCC) has allocated 75 MHz radio spectrum in the 5.9 GHz band for dedicated short range communications (DSRC) to be exclusively used by V2V andV2R communications. Similarly, in 2008, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has allocated 30 MHz of spectrum (also in the 5.9 GHz band) for Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) applications. As shown in Fig. 1.2, the DSRC spectrum is divided into seven 10 MHz channels six service channels for safety and non-safety related applications, and one control channel for transmission of control information and high priority safety messages. Such allocation of radio spectrum for vehicular communications has motivated the establishment of many national and international research projects, e.g., [8-17],... 

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