Background and literature survey

Abstract

Due to the rapid growth of maritime business data, data centers and backbone networks need to deal with a large number of complex network traffic. Resource-intensive tasks such as high-definition video playback, multimedia applications, and online games have been growing in recent years. These requirements not only increase the burden of bandwidth demand but also increase the energy consumption of the ship terminal network. At the same time, great changes have been raised in the characteristics and requirements of current maritime services, from the initial optimal requirements of point-to-point communication to support a variety of service quality. Exploring and deploying a maritime communication network with more omnidirectional coverage, higher reliability, higher speed, and lower cost will have a great influence on the development of the maritime industry and security in the future. Therefore, the introduction of brand new network technologies (such as software defined network, mobile edge computing, intelligence algorithms) into the field of maritime communications provides new ideas for solving challenges faced by maritime communications, but many basic research issues has not been thoroughly solved. We divide the existing works in the relevant literature into three categories of research problems.