ICOM: A Communication Framework for Interoperable European Railways

Author

Billion, Jérôme ; Van Den Abeele, Didier

Author_Institution

ALSTOM Transp., St. Ouen

fYear

2007

fDate

6-8 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The future European railway system will have to exhibit dramatically improved overall efficiency and performance. In order to achieve this high level goal, the InteGRail project aims to create a holistic, coherent information system, integrating the major railway sub-systems. In this paper we present ICOM, a framework for intelligent communication in InteGRail. This framework follows an application driven approach to integrate the heterogeneous railway networks and to deliver advanced end to end communication services combining QoS, mobility and security via business oriented interfaces. It defines a reference model for further interoperability standardisation in railway communication.

Keywords

quality of service; railway communication; railway engineering; ICOM; InteGRail project; QoS; business oriented interfaces; coherent information system; communication services; intelligent communication; interoperability standardisation; interoperable European railways; railway communication; railway networks; reference model; Business communication; Communication system security; Context; Costs; Information security; Information systems; Rail transportation; Railway communication; Telecommunication network management; Telecommunication traffic; Communication Framework; Heterogeneous Networks Integration; InteGRail; Railway Interoperability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications, 2007. ITST '07. 7th International Conference on ITS

Conference_Location

Sophia Antipolis

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1178-5

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-1178-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITST.2007.4295923

Filename

4295923