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http://dx.doi.org/10.5370/KIEE.2013.62.3.414

Reliability Analysis of Train Ethernet Backbone  

Kim, Joonkyo (School of Information and Communication, Inha University)
Park, Jaehyun (School of Information and Communication, Inha University)
Oh, Yongkuk (Korea Railroad Research Institute)
Hwang, Hyeoncheon (Korea Railroad Research Institute)
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The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers / v.62, no.3, 2013 , pp. 414-416 More about this Journal
Abstract
As the usage of the electric power train increases, the importance of the control network between the electric control devices grows. IEC proposed a revision of IEC-61375, a standard of the networking among electric devices within a train, to adopt Ethernet as a backbone of train network. This paper performed the reliability analysis of three configurations of Ethernet-based networking within a electric power train that are recommended in IEC-61375 standard. The analysis results show that MTTF(mean time to failure) of the redundant configuration is 20,086 hours, which is a about 3 times longer than the linear configuration.
Keywords
Train ethernet backbone; Train Communication Network(TCN); Reliability; IEC-61375;
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