Memorias de investigación
Communications at congresses:
LTE as the future railway communication system: benefits and challenges
Year:2013

Research Areas
  • Electronic technology and of the communications

Information
Abstract
In this paper the main challenges associated with the migration process towards LTE, will be assessed. These challenges comprise, among others, the next key topics: Reliability, Availability Maintainability and Safety (RAMS) requirements, end to end Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, system performance in high speed scenarios, communication system deployment strategy, and system backward compatibility as well as the future system features for delivering railway services. The practical evaluation of the LTE system capabilities and performance in High Speed Railway (HSR) scenarios, require the development of an LTE demonstrator and an LTE system level simulator. Under this scope, the authors have developed an RF LTE demonstrator, as well as an LTE system level simulator, that will provide valuable information for the assessing of LTE performance and suitability in real HSR scenarios. This work is being developed under the framework of a research project to evaluate the feasibility of LTE to become the new railway communication system. The companies and universities involved in this project are: Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Alcatel Lucent Spain, ADIF (Spanish Railway Infrastructure Manager), Metro de Madrid, AT4 Wireless, the University of A Coruña (UDC) and University of Málaga (UMA).
International
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Congress
WRCC 2013.Tenth World Congress on Railway Research
960
Place
Sydney (Australia)
Reviewers
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ISBN/ISSN
000-00-0000-000-0
Start Date
25/11/2013
End Date
28/11/2013
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Participants
  • Autor: Jaime Calle Sanchez UPM
  • Autor: Mariano Molina García UPM
  • Autor: David de Antonio Monte Alcatel-Lucent
  • Autor: Jose Ignacio Alonso Montes UPM
  • Autor: Jean Raphael Fernandez Fernandez UPM
  • Autor: Carlos F. Lopez Martinez UPM
  • Autor: Sergio Perez Jimenez UPM
  • Autor: Cesar Briso Rodriguez UPM
  • Autor: Alfonso Fernandez Duran Alcatel-Lucent

Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Radiocomunicación (GRC)
  • Departamento: Ingeniería Audiovisual y Comunicaciones
  • Departamento: Señales, Sistemas y Radiocomunicaciones