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SIGNAL+DRAHT | Issue 11/2022

Innovative antenna systems for FRMCS – field trials at 1.9 GHz

November 2022 | Bernd Holfeld, Simon Biemond, Lourdes Garcia, Said Mehira

The Future Railway Mobile Communication System (FRMCS) will be the successor to GSM-R. It will be based on 5G technologies and will enhance mobile train-to-ground communications in rail operations. Improved radio access and core network architectures as well as innovative antenna systems in FRMCS will enable higher transmission rates, lower latencies and high reliability for any future data transfers within the scope of the digitalisation and automation of railway services. This article focuses on multi-antenna radio technologies and their benefits for FRMCS networks at 1.9...