A brief look at railroad communication vulnerabilities

IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 245-249

  Craven, Paul Vincent ^a  

^a SIMPSON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Railway; Security; Wireless

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS; RAILWAYS; SECURITY; TERRORISM;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; LOCOMOTIVES; RADIO; RAILROAD TRAFFIC CONTROL; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RISK MANAGEMENT; SCADA SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

SECURITY SYSTEMS;

EID: 13344283363     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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