Throughput Performance of 3GPP LTE System in Railway Environment

• Published in: Communication Technologies for Vehicles pp. 60 - 71
• Main Authors: Brunel, Loïc, Bonneville, Hervé, Charaf, Akl
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: European Telecommunication Standard Institute; Long Term Evolution; Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex; Packet Error Rate
• ISBN: 9783319568799; 3319568795
• ISSN: 0302-9743; 1611-3349
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-56880-5_7

The design of the next train radio telecommunication system has started in Europe, based on initiatives at International Railway Union (UIC), European Railway Agency (ERA) and European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). This new system must satisfy rail community requirements and replace the currently used GSM-R (Global System for Mobile communications - Railways) system. The 3GPP LTE (Third Generation Partnership Project - Long Term Evolution) mobile cellular system and its evolutions are among the candidates and must be evaluated for railway services. This paper aims at providing an overview of current standardization work and system-level evaluation results of LTE in a railway environment.