5G Enabling Technologies in Rail
Rui XUE, Zhiqiang Ma, Xiaoning Ma, Mingrui Dai · 2020
Leveraging recent advances in IoT, blockchain, big data, artificial intelligence, and others, these state-of-art technologies still have difficulty in massive deployment and real fruition of working together in the industry. 5G brings new opportunities through enabling these technologies and thus leads to new developments. This paper introduces 5G and analyzes how 5G enable other technologies. Besides, it slices complicated railway scenarios into three aspects, and then discusses applications and innovations 5G and technologies can bring to rail.