Trends of LTE based Railway Communication Systems

Trends in LTE/WiMAX Systems

In Japan, the total number of mobile-phone and personal handy-phone system (PHS) users reached 111 million as of the end of February 2009 and the penetration rate of the third-generation mobile communications system (IMT-2000) exceeded 88%. These figures testify to the provision of a data communications environment for mobile users. At the same time, the use of data communications via mobile ph...

Evaluation of ETCS performance with LTE as alternative railway communication network using OPNET

GSM-Railways (GSM-R) is a communication mobile network designed to fulfill specific communication needs of railways. GSM-R is being widely deployed across Europe and other countries around the world for providing railway voice and train control services (ETCS). Despite that, GSM-R already shows various shortcomings in terms of capacity and support for additional data services. This triggers the...

Top challenges of LTE to become the next generation railway communication system

Railway environments cannot be away from the current evolution of public communication systems. The Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile communication system is considered to be the natural evolution for current Global System for Mobile Communications Railways (GSM-R). LTE all IP networking technology plays a key role for the integration and convergence of heterogeneous networks and services, both ...

Chaos-Based Communication Systems: Current Trends and Challenges

Much research has been devoted to synchronization and chaos-based communication in the last two decades or so. Since the early 1990s, many papers have addressed the subject, and much progress has been made. Considering that the research has been developed in many different – and, at certain extent, complementary – directions, it would be interesting to outline the advances and establish the bot...

Introduction to railway communication