Objectives and activities of workstream 2

  • To identify the appropriate transport protocol for ensuring communication characteristics and capabilities during application development;
  • To study the interworking between Internet Protocol v4 (IPv4) and Internet Protocol v6 (IPv6);
  • To analyse options for transport layer and the application layer protocols for specific rail applications;
  • To analyse the security of transport and application layer using secure version of application protocols;
  • To conduct IP-based emulation/simulation to support the protocol investigation activities.