Insights in the cost of continuous broadband Internet on trains for multi-service deployments by multiple actors with resource sharing

EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Table 1 High-level overview of the characteristics of different wireless technologies

Parameter	Satellite network	Cellular networks	Wireless data networks
Bandwidth	High	Low to very high	High to very high
	(2 to 50 Mbps)	(0.17 to 14.4 Mbps)	(2 to 50 Mbps)
		(4G: 0.1 to 1 Gbps)	(WiMAX 2: 0.1 to 1 Gbps)
Delay		Low to very high	Very low
	(239.6 to 279.0 ms [10])	(100 to 1,000 ms)	(<50 ms)
		(4G: <50 ms)
Current coverage	International	National	Limited
	(but a clear line-of-sight is required)	(good for standards up to 3G, for	(new networks needed)
		most recent standards not fully achieved)
Maximum train speed	Very high	High	Low to high
	(up to 500 km/h)	(up to 250 km/h)	(120 to 250 km/h)
			(WiMAX 2: >250 km/h)
Technologies	DVB-S [11]	GPRS (2G) [12]	Wi-Fi [13]
	DVB-S2 [14, 15]	EDGE (2.75G) [16]	Flash-OFDM [17]
	DVB-RCS [18, 19]	UMTS (3G) [20]	WiMAX [21, 22]
		HSPA (3.5G) [23]
		LTE (4G) [24]
		LTE-Advanced