Cross-layer handoff design in MIMO-enabled WLANs for Communication-Based Train Control (CBTC) systems

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 719-728

  Zhu, Li ^a   Yu, F Richard ^b   Ning, Bin ^a   Tang, Tao ^a  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

CBTC; Cross Layer Design; Handoff; Train Control

Indexed keywords

CBTC; COMMUNICATION LATENCY; COMMUNICATION-BASED TRAIN CONTROLS; CONTROL PERFORMANCE; CROSS-LAYER; CROSS-LAYER DESIGN; DESIGN CRITERION; HANDOFF; HANDOFF DECISION; INTEGRATED DESIGNS; LINEAR QUADRATIC COSTS; MULTI INPUT AND MULTI OUTPUTS; NETWORK CAPACITY; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; PHYSICAL LAYERS; RAIL VEHICLES; SAFE OPERATION; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL; TRAIN CONTROL; TRAIN CONTROL SYSTEMS;

COMMUNICATION; NETWORK LAYERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DESIGN;

EID: 84859990565     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2012.120506     Document Type: Article

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