NDN-GSM-R: a novel high-speed railway communication system via Named Data Networking

To keep up with the rapid development of railway and meet the high demand for communication business in China, Global System for Mobile Communications-Railway (GSM-R) based on General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) ahead of Europe has been developed. However, the current data communication mode of GPRS using TCP/IP has some disadvantages, such as poor mobility, lack of security etc. For this reason, there are some problems for GSM-R, like handover, which makes communication service quality undesirable. Named Data Networking focuses on named data, adopts data-facing communication mode, and does not care where the contents are stored but the contents themselves. It can effectively solve the problems caused by TCP/IP. In this paper, a new high-speed railway communication system with Named Data Networking (NDN) named NDN-GSM-R is proposed. Two simulations, called transmission interference time and end-to-end transmission delay of NDN-GSM-R, have been conducted. The simulation results show that NDN-GSM-R has better performance in high-speed mobile communication environment and can make up the insufficiency of the current GSM-R based on TCP/IP framework.