1st International ICST Workshop on Wireless Communications for High Speed Rail

Research Article

A Wireless Hybrid Diversity Strategy for Heavy Haul Railway Transportation System

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/ChinaCom.2011.6158345,
        author={Jianfei Cao and Zhangdui Zhong and Xia Chen},
        title={A Wireless Hybrid Diversity Strategy for Heavy Haul Railway Transportation System},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Workshop on Wireless Communications for High Speed Rail},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={HSR COM},
        year={2012},
        month={3},
        keywords={spatial diversity outage probability relay heavy haul railway transportation system},
        doi={10.1109/ChinaCom.2011.6158345}
    }
    
  • Jianfei Cao
    Zhangdui Zhong
    Xia Chen
    Year: 2012
    A Wireless Hybrid Diversity Strategy for Heavy Haul Railway Transportation System
    HSR COM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/ChinaCom.2011.6158345
Jianfei Cao1,*, Zhangdui Zhong1, Xia Chen1
  • 1: Beijing Jiaotong University
*Contact email: 07111032@bjtu.edu.cn

Abstract

Reliability of wireless communication can be improved by utilizing various diversity schemes, which are seriously desired by the heavy haul railway transportation systems. The transmission of control message is a significantly vital issue and suffers from severe channel fading and interferences, which may result in failures of locomotive control. This paper proposes a novel hybrid cooperative scheme to increase the diversity gain of wireless transmission, which can guarantee higher degree of coordination among multiple locomotives. With multiple independent transmission paths, the outage probability falls down exponentially with Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR). Simulation results illustrate the significant performance gain.