A Parallel Simulation Platform for Train Communication Networks

The next-generation of railway systems are increasingly adopting new and advanced communication technology to boost control efficiency. The challenges of this transition arising from the mission-critical and time-critical nature of railway control systems are to meet specific requirements, such as c...

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Main Authors: Liu, Xin, Jin, Dong, Zhang, Tairan
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Communication networks
Control systems
Network topology
Protocols
Rail transportation
Synchronization
Topology
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Summary:The next-generation of railway systems are increasingly adopting new and advanced communication technology to boost control efficiency. The challenges of this transition arising from the mission-critical and time-critical nature of railway control systems are to meet specific requirements, such as continuous availability, real-time operations, function correctness despite operational errors and growing cyber-attacks. In this work, we develop S3FTCN, a simulation platform to evaluate the on-board train communication network (TCN). S3FTCN is composed of a parallel discrete event simulation kernel and a detailed packet-level TCN simulator. S3FTCN demonstrates good scalability to support large-scale network experiments using parallel simulation. We also conduct a case study of a double-tagging VLAN attack to illustrate the usability of S3FTCN.
ISSN:1558-4305
DOI:10.1109/WSC40007.2019.9004725