On the two time scale characteristics of wireless high speed railway networks

Abstract

Due to the severe environment along the High-Speed Railway (HSR), it is essential to research an efficient HSR communication system. In our previous work, we collected and analyzed an amount of the first hand dataset of signal intensity in HSR networks. We first observed that the link status variation presented an obvious Two-Time-Scale characteristics. However, that work did not analyze the cause of the Two-Time-Scale characteristics clearly. In this work, we focus on the fundamental cause of the periodic Two-Time-Scale characteristics, and make a lot of in-depth studies on this interesting phenomenon. Furthermore, we rebuild Two-Time-Scale characteristics by leveraging the relationship between the link state variation and the geographical position along HSR lines. In particular, considering the distribution of urban areas and rural ones along the HSR, a periodic distance based small time-scale model and a path-loss based large time-scale model are proposed respectively. Simulation results show the proposed models can perfectly explain the Two-Time-Scale characteristics and predict HSR link quality.