Capacity Study for a 5G Satellite System to support Railway FRMCS Critical service over Europe

Iacurto, Cristian; Catuogno, Tommaso; Brizzi, Alessandro; Pandolfi, Luca; Miglietta, Alessia; Rokitansky, Carl-Herbert; Eschbacher, Kurt; Pellegrini, Vincenzo Maria; Toptsidis, Nikolaos

doi:10.1109/vtc2022-spring54318.2022.9860366

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“…Using a 5G cloud native railway infrastructure and virtualisation of railway functions enables improvements in operation efficiency, lower costs, and the fast deployment of innovative applications. The provision of ubiquitous and uninterrupted connectivity using 5G ultra-reliable low-latency communications and the support of the Future Railway Mobile Communication System (FRMCS), defined by the International Union of Telecommunications, is expected to increase the level of automatic train operation, enabling a good level of security for passengers and staff, and improving service punctuality and the passenger experience [1][2][3][4][5].…”

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Railway Cloud: Management and Orchestration Functionality Designed as Microservices

Atanasov,

Pencheva,

Trifonov

et al. 2024

Applied Sciences

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The cloudification and virtualisation of railway functions have the potential to improve railway operation efficiency, reliability, safety, and security, as well as to enhance passenger experience by offering innovative services. This paper considers issues related to the management and orchestration of railway clouds that host cloudified railway functions. A microservices-based approach to the design of railway cloud management and orchestration functionality is proposed. The basic railway cloud concepts were defined, and functionality related to the basic orchestration of the railway cloud and deployments is analysed in order to derive the requirements of platform resources and workload management. This functionality is further designed in the form of microservices, meaning that they could possibly be used in orchestration applications to enable improvements in scalability, fault isolation, and data security. The design of microservices follows the principles of the Representational State of Transfer (REST) application programming interface (API) as a set of interlinked resources. Resources related to railway cloud orchestration are identified with their associated data, relationships to other resources, and applicable methods. The resources’ methods are used in railway applications to implement the required orchestration functionality and to maintain the state of railway cloud orchestration processes. To verify the synthesised microservices, the common orchestration application logic and microservices’ logic were modelled, and it was proved that the orchestration processes, which run concurrently, expose equivalent behaviour. The proposed approach was validated using a simulation, aiming to evaluate injected latency as a key performance indicator for the reliability and safety of railway operations. Additionally, some safety and security issues related to railway cloud management and orchestration are considered.

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