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Convergence of Broadband and Broadcast/Multicast in Maritime Information Networks

Show Author's Information Jun Du,  Jian Song( ),  Yong Ren,  Jintao Wang
Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Institute for Ocean Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen 518055, China
Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Key Laboratory of Digital TV System of Guangdong Province and Shenzhen City, Research Institute of Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518057, China
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Maritime Giant Cellular Network (MagicNet), integrated broadcast-multicast-unicast communications, maritime multimedia services, Ocean of Things (OoT), all-coverage
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Recently, the fifth-generation (5G) of wireless networks mainly focuses on the terrestrial applications. However, the well-developed emerging technologies in 5G are hardly applied to the maritime communications, resulting from the lack of communication infrastructure deployed on the vast ocean, as well as different characteristics of wireless propagation environment over the sea and maritime user distribution. To satisfy the expected plethora of broadband communications and multimedia applications on the ocean, a brand-new maritime information network with a comprehensive coverage capacity in terms of all-hour, all-weather, and all-sea-area has been expected as a revolutionary paradigm to extend the terrestrial capacity of enhanced broadband, massive access, ultra-reliable, and low-latency to the vast ocean. Further considering the limited available resource of maritime communication infrastructure, the convergence of broadband and broadcast/multicast can be regarded as a possible yet practical solution for realizing an efficient and flexible resource configuration with high quality of services. Moreover, according to such multi-functionality and all-coverage maritime information network, the monitoring and sensing of vast ocean area relying on massive Ocean of Things and advanced radar techniques can be also supported. Concerning these issues above, this study proposes a Software Defined Networking (SDN) based Maritime Giant Cellular Network (MagicNet) architecture for broadband and multimedia services. Based on this network, the convergence techniques of broadband and broadcast/multicast, and their supporting for maritime monitoring and marine sensing are also introduced and surveyed.


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Convergence of Broadband and Broadcast/Multicast in Maritime Information Networks

Show Author's information Jun Du, Jian Song( ), Yong Ren, Jintao Wang
Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Institute for Ocean Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen 518055, China
Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Key Laboratory of Digital TV System of Guangdong Province and Shenzhen City, Research Institute of Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518057, China

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Recently, the fifth-generation (5G) of wireless networks mainly focuses on the terrestrial applications. However, the well-developed emerging technologies in 5G are hardly applied to the maritime communications, resulting from the lack of communication infrastructure deployed on the vast ocean, as well as different characteristics of wireless propagation environment over the sea and maritime user distribution. To satisfy the expected plethora of broadband communications and multimedia applications on the ocean, a brand-new maritime information network with a comprehensive coverage capacity in terms of all-hour, all-weather, and all-sea-area has been expected as a revolutionary paradigm to extend the terrestrial capacity of enhanced broadband, massive access, ultra-reliable, and low-latency to the vast ocean. Further considering the limited available resource of maritime communication infrastructure, the convergence of broadband and broadcast/multicast can be regarded as a possible yet practical solution for realizing an efficient and flexible resource configuration with high quality of services. Moreover, according to such multi-functionality and all-coverage maritime information network, the monitoring and sensing of vast ocean area relying on massive Ocean of Things and advanced radar techniques can be also supported. Concerning these issues above, this study proposes a Software Defined Networking (SDN) based Maritime Giant Cellular Network (MagicNet) architecture for broadband and multimedia services. Based on this network, the convergence techniques of broadband and broadcast/multicast, and their supporting for maritime monitoring and marine sensing are also introduced and surveyed.

Keywords: Maritime Giant Cellular Network (MagicNet), integrated broadcast-multicast-unicast communications, maritime multimedia services, Ocean of Things (OoT), all-coverage

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This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation China (Nos. 61931015 and 61971257), the National Key R&D Program of China (Nos. 2020YFD0901000 and 2017YFE0112300), Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (Nos. BNR2019RC01014 and BNR2019TD01001), the project of Peng Cheng Laboratory (No. LZC0020), and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Nos. 2019T120091 and 2018M640130).

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