Title :
Investigation on the application of a time-triggered protocol aboard trains
Author :
Bertoluzzo, Manuele ; Buja, Giuseppe
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Padova Univ.
Abstract :
Modern trains are equipped with a communication network to exchange data among the numerous electric/electronic devices that nowadays are installed in the railways vehicles. Since a few years the train communication network (TCN) protocol has been chosen as the standard for the communication network aboard trains. A crucial issue for this application is the achievement of higher levels of dependability while fulfilling the transmission needs. Recently communication networks have been developed, built up around time-triggered protocols, that accommodate powerful techniques to make dependable the network behavior. After reviewing the characteristics of TCN, the paper illustrates two commercialized time-triggered protocols, namely time-triggered protocol and FlexRay, and investigates their application aboard trains
Keywords :
protocols; railway communication; railways; FlexRay; communication network aboard trains; data exchange; railway vehicles; time-triggered protocol; train communication network protocol; Commercialization; Communication networks; Communication system control; Control systems; Electric variables control; Hardware; Protocols; Rail transportation; Temperature control; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
IEEE Industrial Electronics, IECON 2006 - 32nd Annual Conference on
Conference_Location :
Paris
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0390-1
DOI :
10.1109/IECON.2006.347695