Dr.-Ing. Christina Rico Garcia

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PhD Thesis

Topic

A Broadcast Vehicle to Vehicle Communication System for the Railway Environment

Status

completed

Description

The aim of this thesis is the design, development, simulation, optimization and verification of a communication system that will allow the transmission of messages of a railway collision avoidance system.

The system will allow the train conductors to have an up-to-date accurate knowledge of the traffic situation in the vicinity, and act in consequence. The system is intended to not rely on components in the infrastructure, this way substantially reducing its rollout- and maintenance costs, as well as inherently providing a migration strategy. The basic idea is to calculate the own position and movement vector and broadcast this information as well as additional data like vehicle dimensions to all other trains in the area. Thus, the driver's cabin could be equipped with a display showing the position of the other vehicles in the region. Computer analysis of the received information, the own position and movement vector and an electronic track map detects possible collisions, displaying an alert signal, and advising the driver of the most convenient strategy to follow in order to avoid the danger. The system can take into account different danger sources, like advancing trains or road vehicles or obstacles, and classify them according to a specific scale.

Research Interests

System Design
Communication in the Railway Environment
Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication
MAC Protocols for High Dynamic MANETs
Situation Aware Communication

Publications

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C. Rico García and O. Tonguz
Increasing safety and efficienty of railway
IEEE ICC 2012 Workshop on Intelligent Vehicular Networking: V2V/V2I Communications and Applications., Ottawa, June 2012
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A. Lehner, C. Rico García and T. Strang
On the Performance of TETRA DMO Short Data Service in Railway VANETs
Wireless Personal Communications, Springer Netherlands, May 2012
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2011

A. Lehner, T. Strang and C. Rico García
A multi-broadcast communication system for high dynamic vehicular ad-hoc networks
International Journal of Vehicle Information and Communication Systems (IJVICS), Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., Vol. 2, Num. 3/4, pp. 286--302, December 2011
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T. Strang, A. Lehner, O. Heirich, A. Grosch and C. Rico García
Cooperative Situation Awareness for a Railway Collision Avoidance System (RCAS)
Adjunct Proceedings, 9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2011), June 2011
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A. Lehner, C. Rico García, T. Strang and O. Heirich
Measurement and Analysis of the Direct Train to Train Propagation Channel in the 70 cm UHF-Band
Communication Technologies for Vehicles, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6596, pp. 45--57, 2011
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2010

C. Rico García, A. Lehner, P. Robertson and T. Strang
Performance of MAC protocols in beaconing Mobile Adhoc Multibroadcast Networks
Multiple Access Communiations, Springer, Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Num. 6235, pp. 263-274, September 2010
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B. Kloiber, C. Rico García, T. Strang, F. Ponte-Mueller and M. Röckl
An Approach for Performance Analysis of ETSI ITS-G5A MAC for Safety Applications
ITST 2010, 2010
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2009

A. Lehner, C. Rico García, E. Wige and T. Strang
A Multi-Broadcast Communication System for High Dynamic Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks
IEEE International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles (Nets4Cars) at the International Conference on Ultra Modern Telecommunications (ICUMT 2009), October 2009
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A. Lehner, C. Rico García, E. Wige and T. Strang
A Multi-Broadcast Communication System for High Dynamic Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks
Proceedings of IEEE VNC 2009, October 2009
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A. Lehner, F. Ponte, T. Strang and C. Rico García
Reliable vehicle-autarkic collision detection for railbound transportation
Proceedings of ITS World Congress 2009, September 2009
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T. Strang, A. Lehner and C. Rico García
Building a 2nd line of defence for safer rail
EURAILmag Business & Technology, Issue 19, BLUE LINE & Bro, Paris, France, Pages 92-95, January 2009
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2008

C. Rico García, A. Lehner and T. Strang
COMB: Cell based Orientation aware MANET Broadcast MAC layer
Global Communication Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM), New Orleans, USA, December 2008
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A. Lehner, T. Strang and C. Rico García
A Reliable Surveillance Strategy for an Autonomous Rail Collision Avoidance System
15th Worl Congress on ITS, New York, USA, November 2008
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C. Rico García, T. Strang and A. Lehner
A location-based MAC protocol for safety-of-life vehicle-to-vehicle communication
Eleventh International Conference on Computer System Design and Operation in the Railway and Other Transit Systems (COMPRAIL), Toledo (Spain), September 2008
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C. Rico García, T. Strang and A. Lehner
A Broadcast Vehicle to Vehicle Communication System in Railway Environments
International Symposium on Vehicular Computing Systems (ISVCS), Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), July 2008
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C. Rico García, T. Strang and A. Lehner
A Reliable MAC Protocol for Broadcast VANETs
4th Workshop on Vehicle to Vehicle Communications (V2VCOM 2008), Eindhoven (The Netherlands), July 2008
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C. Rico García, T. Strang, A. Lehner and K. Frank
Channel Model for Train to Train Communication using the 400 MHz Band
67th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2008-Spring), Marina Bay (Singapore), May 2008
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2007

C. Rico García, A. Lehner, T. Strang and M. Röckl
Comparison of Collision Avoidance Systems and Applicability to Rail Transport
7th International Conference on Inteligent Transportation Systems Telecommunication (ITST), Sophia Antipolis (France), June 2007
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2006

C. Rico García, O. Schreiner and W. Minker
A Scalable Syllable Speech Recognizer
International Conference on Acoustics (NAG-DAGA), Braunschweig (Germany), 2006
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