The maritime economy is undergoing a process of transformation as development, production and services become increasingly digital. Therefore, digitalization in the ocean industry is considered one of the most important global trends. The digitalization of numerous maritime activities including oil exploitation, autonomous shipping, maritime transportation, fish farming, and other activities, which continue to be developed rapidly, will become a decisive competitive factor for the entire maritime sector and generate a huge volume of ocean data. The implementation of these processes is based on nationwide broadband and mobile radio networks with high data transfer capabilities, wide coverage as well as high stability, which drives the need for research and development of new broadband maritime communication technology.
The new and evolving generations of mobile communication systems, B5G and 6G, open a range of new opportunities. We foresee the use of new infrastructure based on unmanned sea surface vehicles (USV), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), High-altitude platform stations (HAPS), maritime satellite systems, and hybrid integrated systems using combinations of these also including maritime surface-acoustics networks. New technologies like mesh, land-based maritime massive MIMO antenna systems, mobile edge computing, and artificial intelligence may be exploited. Based on this, it is possible to build a new maritime communication network architecture featuring intelligence, high-security, seamless coverage fulfilling QoS parameters needed for the different applications.
To develop a new future for all aspects of maritime operations, we seek high-quality original research papers on topics including, but not limited to:
1. Ocean digitalization.
2. New technologies like integrated sensing and communication, artificial intelligence, big data, and edge computing for maritime applications.
3. New maritime network infrastructure solutions (land-to-sea, ship-to-ship, mesh, relay, satellite, HAPS, hybrid schemes, etc) and their performances in maritime operations.
4. Channel measurements and modeling for maritime environments
5. Cybersecurity issues and assessment thereof.
6. Channel estimation, network coding, multiple access technologies and adaptive transmission technologies for maritime communications
7. Quality-of-Service technologies for maritime networks
8. Maritime communication standardization
The maritime economy is undergoing a process of transformation as development, production and services become increasingly digital. Therefore, digitalization in the ocean industry is considered one of the most important global trends. The digitalization of numerous maritime activities including oil exploitation, autonomous shipping, maritime transportation, fish farming, and other activities, which continue to be developed rapidly, will become a decisive competitive factor for the entire maritime sector and generate a huge volume of ocean data. The implementation of these processes is based on nationwide broadband and mobile radio networks with high data transfer capabilities, wide coverage as well as high stability, which drives the need for research and development of new broadband maritime communication technology.
The new and evolving generations of mobile communication systems, B5G and 6G, open a range of new opportunities. We foresee the use of new infrastructure based on unmanned sea surface vehicles (USV), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), High-altitude platform stations (HAPS), maritime satellite systems, and hybrid integrated systems using combinations of these also including maritime surface-acoustics networks. New technologies like mesh, land-based maritime massive MIMO antenna systems, mobile edge computing, and artificial intelligence may be exploited. Based on this, it is possible to build a new maritime communication network architecture featuring intelligence, high-security, seamless coverage fulfilling QoS parameters needed for the different applications.
To develop a new future for all aspects of maritime operations, we seek high-quality original research papers on topics including, but not limited to:
1. Ocean digitalization.
2. New technologies like integrated sensing and communication, artificial intelligence, big data, and edge computing for maritime applications.
3. New maritime network infrastructure solutions (land-to-sea, ship-to-ship, mesh, relay, satellite, HAPS, hybrid schemes, etc) and their performances in maritime operations.
4. Channel measurements and modeling for maritime environments
5. Cybersecurity issues and assessment thereof.
6. Channel estimation, network coding, multiple access technologies and adaptive transmission technologies for maritime communications
7. Quality-of-Service technologies for maritime networks
8. Maritime communication standardization
