Hybrid satellite-terrestrial communication networks for the maritime Internet of Things: Key technologies, opportunities, and challenges

T Wei, W Feng, Y Chen, CX Wang… - IEEE Internet of things …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rapid development of marine activities, there has been an increasing number of
Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices on the ocean. This leads to a growing demand for high …

Hybrid satellite-UAV-terrestrial networks for 6G ubiquitous coverage: A maritime communications perspective

Y Wang, W Feng, J Wang… - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the coming smart ocean era, reliable and efficient communications are crucial for
promoting a variety of maritime activities. Current maritime communication networks (MCNs) …

Unmanned aerial vehicles: Applications, techniques, and challenges as aerial base stations

RM Rolly, P Malarvezhi… - International Journal of …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Next generation wireless networks are expected to be greatly supported by unmanned
aerial vehicles, which can act as aerial base stations and constitute a promising solution for …

Maritime search and rescue based on group mobile computing for unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned surface vehicles

T Yang, Z Jiang, R Sun, N Cheng… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accidents often occur at sea, so effective maritime search and rescue is essential. In the
current process of sea search and rescue, the operation efficiency of large search and …

Deep reinforcement learning based joint edge resource management in maritime network

F Xu, F Yang, C Zhao, S Wu - China Communications, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the rapid development of the maritime networks, there has been a growing demand
for computation-intensive applications which have various energy consumption …

Underwater acoustic sensor networks with cost efficiency for internet of underwater things

Y Song - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite the potential benefits of Internet of Underwater Things, a number of issues hinder its
realization, including the need for communication reliability and cost-effectiveness. This …

Sizing and allocation of battery energy storage systems in Åland islands for large-scale integration of renewables and electric ferry charging stations

J Kumar, C Parthasarathy, M Västi, H Laaksonen… - Energies, 2020 - mdpi.com
The stringent emission rules set by international maritime organisation and European
Directives force ships and harbours to constrain their environmental pollution within certain …

Integrated satellite–terrestrial connectivity for autonomous ships: Survey and future research directions

M Höyhtyä, J Martio - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
An autonomous vessel uses multiple different radio technologies such as satellites, mobile
networks and dedicated narrowband systems, to connect to other ships, services, and the …

VESBELT: An energy-efficient and low-latency aware task offloading in Maritime Internet-of-Things networks using ensemble neural networks

SC Ghoshal, MM Hossain, BC Das, P Roy… - Future Generation …, 2024 - Elsevier
Due to increasing maritime activities, the number of Maritime Internet-of-things (MIoT)
devices requiring real-time marine data processing is growing exponentially. To offload …

Networking in oceans: a survey

S Jiang - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2021 - dl.acm.org
The ocean is a huge saltwater body that is different from terrestrial environments in terms of
deployment circumstance, weather conditions, and user distributions. Therefore, it is difficult …