Design of Radio Transmission Technologies for VHF Band Ship Ad-hoc Network

Abstract

For the purpose of providing high data rate real-time services, radio transmission technologies for ship ad-hoc network are designed in this paper. Based on the Recommendation ITU-R 1842-1, physical layer parameters of SANET are contrived to meet the requirements of that specification. Furthermore, the multi-hop frame structure for SANET is proposed and the link-level system performances are evaluated based on the designed parameters. Under the measured maritime channel environment, simulation results show not only the BER comparisons, but also the optimal MCS level for single carrier SANET with the bandwidth of 25 kHz.