Hybrid Satellite-Terrestrial Communication Networks for the Maritime Internet of Things: Key Technologies, Opportunities, and Challenges

With the rapid development of marine activities, there has been an increasing number of maritime mobile terminals, as well as a growing demand for high-speed and ultra-reliable maritime communications to keep them connected. Traditionally, the maritime Internet of Things (IoT) is enabled by maritime satellites. However, satellites are seriously restricted by their high latency and relatively low data rate. As an alternative, shore & island-based base stations (BSs) can be built to extend the coverage of terrestrial networks using fourth-generation (4G), fifth-generation (5G), and beyond 5G services. Unmanned aerial vehicles can also be exploited to serve as aerial maritime BSs. Despite of all these approaches, there are still open issues for an efficient maritime communication network (MCN). For example, due to the complicated electromagnetic propagation environment, the limited geometrically available BS sites, and rigorous service demands from mission-critical applications, conventional communication and networking theories and methods should be tailored for maritime scenarios. Towards this end, we provide a survey on the demand for maritime communications, the state-of-the-art MCNs, and key technologies for enhancing transmission efficiency, extending network coverage, and provisioning maritime-specific services. Future challenges in developing an environment-aware, service-driven, and integrated satellite-air-ground MCN to be smart enough to utilize external auxiliary information, e.g., sea state and atmosphere conditions, are also discussed

An optimal path selection using lion optimization routing protocol for mobile ad-hoc network

MANET is a set of nodes that communicate with each other directly or indirectly. The nodes in MANET can be moved freely. The dynamic nature of the network makes several challenges. One of the challenges in routing is to transfer the data from the start node (source) to the end node (destination). Routing suffers from several metrics such as power-consuming, delay, packet delivery ratio, etc. This paper proposed a new protocol called the Lion Optimization Routing protocol (LORP) based on the lion algorithm and AODV protocol. This protocol uses the Lion Optimization Algorithm to select the optimal path. Firstly, we use lion optimization to select the optimal path using the LOA maximization algorithm depending on three main metrics Power Efficiency, Throughput, and Packet Delivery Ratio. Secondly, we use the LOA minimization algorithm to select the optimal path using two metrics Delay and Short Path. In LOA Maximization algorithm metrics calculated and choose the max path value. The result of this protocol is compared with AODV, DSR, and ANTHOCNET

GFDM FOR NEXT GENERATION WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

In modern scenarios, there are several applications of OFDM, but it also has some demerits like sensitive to Carrier Frequency Offset (CFO), high Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR), and timing offset large. Out Of Band (OOB) and low spectral efficiency due to cyclic prefix per symbol insertion. To diminish and discard above problems, new multiplexing technique is required for next generation wireless communication i.e. GFDM. GFDM is becoming popular day by day due to flexibility in pulse shape as well as single cyclic prefix in a multipath channel and which makes it eligible for the 5th generation technology. This paper deals with an overview of a GFDM and presents a comparative study between OFDM and GFDM

Efficient P2P data dissemination in integrated optical and wireless networks with Taguchi method

The Quality of Service (QoS) resource consumption is always the tricky problem and also the on-going issue in the access network of mobile wireless part because of its dynamic nature of network wireless transmissions. It is very critical for the infrastructure-less wireless mobile ad hoc network that is distributed while interconnects in a peer-to-peer manner. Toward resolve the problem, Taguchi method optimization of mobile ad hoc routing (AODVUU) is applied in integrated optical and wireless networks called the adLMMHOWAN. Practically, this technique was carry out using OMNeT++ software by building a simulation based optimization through design of experiment. Its QoS network performance is examined based on packet delivery ratio (PDR) metric and packet loss probabilities (PLP) metric that consider the scenario of variation number of nodes. During the performing stage with random mobile connectivity based on improvement in optimized front-end wireless domain of AODVUU routing, the result is performing better when compared with previous study called the oRia scheme with the improvement of 14.1% PDR and 43.3% PLP in this convergence of heterogeneous optical wireless network

An IOT-enabled System for Marine Data Acquisition and Cartography

Current satellite communication remains very expensive and impractical for most small to mid-sized vessels, and at the same time marine wireless networking is lack of network coverage. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a novel IOT (Internet of Things) enabled system for marine data acquisition and cartography based on Ship Ad-hoc Networks (SANET’s). Ships are equipped with Very High Frequency (VHF) radios and several sensors such as sea depth, temperature, wind speed and direction, etc. The collected sensory data is sent to 5G edge clouds incorporated at sink/base station nodes on shore, and ultimately aggregated at a central cloud on the internet to produce up to date cartography. The routing protocols deployed are DSDV (Destination-Sequenced Distance Vector), AODV (Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector), AOMDV (Ad hoc On-Demand Multipath Distance Vector) and DSR (Dynamic Source Routing) protocols, which are very popular in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET’s) and compatible with multi hop routing environments and scalability towards increased traffic and mobility. Simulation results verify the feasibility and efficiency of the proposed system that has packet delivery rates of up to 80% at shore base stations

A Survey and Future Directions on Clustering: From WSNs to IoT and Modern Networking Paradigms

Many Internet of Things (IoT) networks are created as an overlay over traditional ad-hoc networks such as Zigbee. Moreover, IoT networks can resemble ad-hoc networks over networks that support device-to-device (D2D) communication, e.g., D2D-enabled cellular networks and WiFi-Direct. In these ad-hoc types of IoT networks, efficient topology management is a crucial requirement, and in particular in massive scale deployments. Traditionally, clustering has been recognized as a common approach for topology management in ad-hoc networks, e.g., in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Topology management in WSNs and ad-hoc IoT networks has many design commonalities as both need to transfer data to the destination hop by hop. Thus, WSN clustering techniques can presumably be applied for topology management in ad-hoc IoT networks. This requires a comprehensive study on WSN clustering techniques and investigating their applicability to ad-hoc IoT networks. In this article, we conduct a survey of this field based on the objectives for clustering, such as reducing energy consumption and load balancing, as well as the network properties relevant for efficient clustering in IoT, such as network heterogeneity and mobility. Beyond that, we investigate the advantages and challenges of clustering when IoT is integrated with modern computing and communication technologies such as Blockchain, Fog/Edge computing, and 5G. This survey provides useful insights into research on IoT clustering, allows broader understanding of its design challenges for IoT networks, and sheds light on its future applications in modern technologies integrated with IoT.acceptedVersio

ON VARIOUS TECHNIQUES IN OFDM AND GFDM: A SURVEY

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a multi-carrier modulation that divides the available spectrum into a finite number of carriers and applied into a digital transmission system. But it has some drawbacks such as sensitivity in inter-carrier interference, high peak to average power ratio and insufficient cyclic prefix in spectrum. These drawbacks may be reduced by a technique known as Generalized Frequency Division Multiplexing (GFDM). In the present scenario, it is a high speed multi-carrier multiplexing data transfer scheme for the cellular network. This paper deals with a comparison between OFDM and GFDM and focuses on various techniques in OFDM and GFDM