Reducing the Cost of High-Speed Railway Communications: From the Propagation Channel View

High-speed railways (HSRs) have been widely introduced to meet the increasing demand for passenger rail travel. While it provides more and more conveniences to people, the huge cost of the HSR has laid big burden on the government finance. Reducing the cost of HSR has been necessary and urgent. Optimizing arrangement of base stations (BS) by improving prediction of the communication link is one of the most effective methods, which could reduce the number of BSs to a reasonable number. However, it requires a carefully developed propagation model, which has been largely neglected before in the research on the HSR. In this paper, we propose a standardized path loss/shadow fading model for HSR channels based on an extensive measurement campaign in 4594 HSR cells. The measurements are conducted using a practically deployed and operative GSM-Railway (GSM-R) system to reflect the real conditions of the HSR channels. The proposed model is validated by the measurements conducted in a different operative HSR line. Finally, a heuristic method to design the BS separation distance is proposed, and it is found that using an improved propagation model can theoretically save around 2/5 cost of the BSs.

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