AB4Rail

“The AB4RAIL project is centered on the study and the assessment of the Adaptable Communication System (ACS) in terms of Alternative Bearers (left) and Communication Protocols (right) for railways applications. The Radiolabs Consortium will coordinate this international challenge together with the Guglielmo Marconi University, a partner of the Consortium, and thanks to the collaboration of the University of Rome Tor Vergata and the ROMA TRE University. The two-year project, which began on January 1, 2021, will have as its main objectives: the identification of alternative wireless technologies (or alternative “bearers”) for communications in the railway sector (Workstream 1); the study and evaluation of communication protocols for railway applications (Workstream 2); Dissemination of the results among stakeholders, industrial partners and strategic referents of the railway sector and of the Shif2Rail and X2Rail-5 programs. In detail:
Workstream 1 – Alternative bearers for railway applications: studying and assessing the alternative bearer technologies for enhancing train-to-ground communications so to enrich the pool of access network options for the Adaptable Communication System (ACS)
Workstream 2 – Communications Protocols for railway applications: investigating the operations of ACS on the application side focusing on the proper usage of (secure/un-secure) transport and application protocols for improving end-to-end performance.”