Rail-CR: Cognitive radio for enhanced railway communication

Proceedings of the ASME Joint Rail Conference 2010, JRC2010

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 467-473

  Amanna, Ashwin ^a   Gadhiok, Manik ^a   Price, Matthew J ^a   Reed, Jeffrey H ^a   Siriwongpairat, W Pam ^b   Himsoon, T Kee ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Meteor Communications Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE RADIO; CUTTING EDGES; DECISION-MAKING ALGORITHMS; HARDWARE PLATFORM; RAILROAD OPERATIONS; RESEARCH AREAS; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS; SOFTWARE-BASED; SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIOS; TRAIN CONTROL; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; PLATINUM COMPOUNDS; RADIO; RADIO SYSTEMS; RAILROADS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 78049253613     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/JRC2010-36201     Document Type: Conference Paper

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