M. Hassan, S. Gamal, S. N. Louis, G. F. Zaki and H. H. Amer, “Fault Tolerant Ethernet Network Model for Control and Entertainment in Railway Transportation Systems,” Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering CCECE, Niagara Falls, Canada, May 2008, pp. 771-774.

has been cited by the following article:

• TITLE: Error Detection and Reconfigurationin Reliable Ethernet Train Networks

  AUTHORS: Hassanein H. Amer, Magdi S. Moustafa, Mai Ibrahim, Ramez M. Daoud

  KEYWORDS: Fault-Tolerance, Gigabit Ethernet, Markov Model, Train Control Network, Reliability, Coverage, Transportation Systems, Ethernet in Control

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Transportation Technologies, Vol.1 No.4, October 24, 2011

  ABSTRACT: In this paper, a novel reconfiguration technique is developed in the context of a fault-tolerant Networked Control System (NCS) in two train wagons. All sensors, controllers and actuators in both wagons are connected on top of a single Gigabit Ethernet network. The network also carries wired and wireless entertainment loads. A Markov model is used to prove that this reconfiguration technique reduces the effect of a failure in the error detection and switching mechanisms on the reliability of the control function. All calculations are based on closed-form solutions and verified using the SHARPE software package.