An Ad-hoc Communication Environment for Multi- Carrier Marine Data Networks

Data communications at sea nowadays depend on mainly satellite and radio media which are, however, not adequate to exchange massive information due to its own high cost and low bandwidth. Ships at sea in the near future would need broad and stable maritime data communication systems like on land. In this paper, we propose multi-carrier-based ad hoc network model and multi-carrier-based ad hoc routing protocol (MAR) newly for ship to ship, ship to shore data communications using automatic identification system (AIS), very high frequency (VHF) and code division multiple access (CDMA). The protocol has been implemented to verify the functionality of that, and evaluated its performances through severe experiments with various media and data.