Title :
Security of railway EOT systems
Author :
Craven, Paul V. ; Craven, Stephen
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Simpson Coll., Indianola, IN, USA
Abstract :
Most railway trains use an end of train (EOT) device to communicate from the front of the train to the end of the train. The wireless protocol for these communications is not secure. This would allow a hostile person to initiate at emergency braking event with most freight and passenger trains. This paper examines the vulnerability and recommends a new protocol to reduce the threat. The protocol is backwards-compatible with the current protocol.
Keywords :
locomotives; protocols; railways; telecommunication security; emergency braking event; end of train device; freight train; passenger train; railway EOT system security; wireless protocol; Batteries; Communication switching; Communication system control; Communication system security; Computer science; Data security; Educational institutions; Rail transportation; Railway engineering; Wireless application protocol;
Conference_Titel :
Rail Conference, 2005. Proceedings of the 2005 ASME/IEEE Joint
Print_ISBN :
0-7918-3752-1
DOI :
10.1109/RRCON.2005.186080
