SIGNAL+DRAHT | Issue 05/2023
Experience with availability analyses in the GSM-R network of DB Netz AG
DB Netz AG has studied GSM-R network availability for a long time and elaborated numerous studies and regular reports within constantly evolving methodology. In the present publication, the authors want to present their experience on this subject. A number of findings are certainly transferable to other networks and other systems. These have shown that information paths are more suitable for representing the availability of a network than the availability of individual components, precisely because components are sometimes very reliable, while the single component sample size of observed data is small....