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 2 Parameters per service

Parameters	Free passenger Wi-Fi	Video-on-demand	Crew communication
Average adoption	20%/18%	3%	100%
Mbps downlink > Train	0.05 ppps	0.00 ppps	0.01 ptps
Mbps uplink > Wayside	0.05 ppps	0.00 ppps	0.01 ptps
Mbps downlink > Pass	0.05 ppps	1.00 ppps	0.01 ptps
Mbps uplink > Gateway	0.05 ppps	0.01 ppps	0.01 ptps
On-board storage (GB)	0	470	0

The adoption of passenger Wi-Fi is lower when the service is offered side-by-side with a video-on-demand service as these are competing services. ppps and ptps respectively stand for per passenger per second and per train per second, respectively.