A network design and simulation of a Smart Railway Station using Cisco Packet Tracer

Abstract

In our daily basis activities, networking has created a significant impact on our life. To make our life easier, computers have emerged with our networking. The earlier computer network was only used in the military, but then it was generated for civilian use for faster communication. Today’s businesses, institutes, industries, hospitals, and banking sectors choose computer networks for solutions, online services, e-commerce, administration, communication, and automation. Every business and services sector has its own specific area of the network, considered as LAN(Local Area Network). An industry with the massive pressure of data loads and transmission requires a substantial amount of hardware, end devices, computers, and servers connected centrally to process and store data securely. Creating a LAN is effective in that case. By building a LAN, all the functions and operations for the employees and managers become faster, quicker, and more accurate. This research paper proposes a network design for an intelligent railway station that runs centrally within a LAN. To run the LAN of this station, it is crucial to keep specialized IT experts and system operators continuously, ensuring the end users transmit information without any technical errors. The LAN was designed and implemented on Cisco Packet Tracer software. This software has simulators to test connections between the classical and IoT devices and identify necessary upgrades to any systems, replace the topologies, and increase the capacity of traffic when new IP addresses are assigned in that LAN. This report explains the simulation design of a railway station in Bangladesh context. The study then defines the end devices placed and connected to network devices along with the configuration of IP addresses and the packets travelling from the source to destinations amongst the departments of the railway station with the utilization of VLAN(Virtual Local Area Network). At the end of this report, it will be clear how a constructive computer network eliminates the barriers of unavailable computer controls, less knowledge of operating a computer in a LAN and technical errors that can be solved for sustainable times.