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MINI REVIEW article

Front. Comms. Net.
Sec. Wireless Communications
Volume 5 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/frcmn.2024.1439529
This article is part of the Research Topic 6G Technologies for Maritime Communication Networks View all 3 articles

Sailing into the Future: Technologies, Challenges, and Opportunities for Maritime Communication Networks in the 6G Era

Provisionally accepted

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    The maritime domain is a major driver of economic growth with emerging services, comprising intelligent transportation systems (ITSs), smart ports, security and safety, and ocean monitoring systems. Sixth generation (6G) mobile networks will offer various technologies, paving the way for reliable and autonomous maritime communication networks (MCNs), supporting these novel maritime services. This review presents the main enabling technologies for future MCNs and relevant use cases, including ITSs with reduced carbon footprint, ports and maritime infrastructure security, as well as fault detection and predictive maintenance. Moreover, the current trends in integrated satellite-aerial-terrestrial-maritime network architectures are discussed together with the different network segments and communication technologies, and machine learning integration aspects.

    Keywords: 6G, Cooperative networks, Maritime communication networks, machine learning, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), Wireless Networks

    Received: 28 May 2024; Accepted: 25 Jun 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Xylouris, Nomikos, Kalafatelis, Giannopoulos, Spantideas and Trakadas. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Nikolaos Nomikos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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