Sailing into the future: technologies, challenges, and opportunities for maritime communication networks in the 6G era

G Xylouris, N Nomikos, A Kalafatelis… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The maritime domain is a major driver of economic growth with emerging services,
comprising intelligent transportation systems (ITSs), smart ports, security and safety, and …

Federated learning for maritime environments: use cases, experimental results, and open issues

A Giannopoulos, P Gkonis, P Bithas… - Journal of Marine …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Maritime transportation is crucial for global trade and responsible for the majority of goods
movement worldwide. The optimization of maritime operations is challenged by the …

Dual UAV Cluster-Assisted Maritime Physical Layer Secure Communications via Collaborative Beamforming

J Huang, A Wang, G Sun, J Li, J Wang… - IEEE Internet of …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be utilized as relay platforms to assist maritime
wireless communications. However, complex channels and multipath effects at sea can …

NOMA Assisted Semi-Grant-Free Transmission for UAV Networks: A Multi-User Scheduling Approach

J Huang, H Lu, J Tang, N Zhao, Z Shi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) assisted semi-grant-free (SGF) transmission, which
enables grant-based users to share their spectrum with grant-free (GF) users, becomes an …

STAR-RIS-aided UAV NOMA Mobile Edge Computing Network with RF Energy Harvesting

DB Ha, VT Truong, TV Truong, TM Phan - Mobile Networks and …, 2023 - Springer
In the ultra-reliable, low-latency next-generation mobile network (beyond 5G or 6G), a
resource-constrained unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) user needs continuous energy …

Successful Transmission Probability Analysis of the Satellite-Maritime Uplink: A Stochastic Geometry Based Approach

Q Gao, L Su, J Fu, Y Lin - Mobile Networks and Applications, 2025 - Springer
Harmonized satellite-maritime networks hold the promise of seamlessly filling the maritime
coverage-holes, hence they have attracted substantial research interests. In this broad …

A Survey on Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Networks: Machine Learning Approach

MC Mayarakaca, BM Lee - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rapid evolution of wireless communication has affected unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAV), which are expected to be used in diverse applications in smart cities, military …

[HTML][HTML] Deep Learning-Based Optimization for Maritime Relay Networks

N Guo, X Wang - Applied Sciences, 2025 - mdpi.com
The complexity and uncertainty of the marine environment pose significant challenges to the
stability and coverage of communication links. Due to the limited coverage range of …

Sparse joint representation for massive MIMO satellite uplink and downlink based on dictionary learning

QY Guan, S Wu, Z Miao - ETRI Journal, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
We address the challenge of jointly representing uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) channels for
a massive multiple‐input multiple‐output satellite system. We employ dictionary learning for …

Multi-UAV Path Planning for Coastal Area Maritime Wireless Communication Networking Based on Policy Gradient and Squirrel Search Algorithm

K Li, W Nai, Z Yang, D Li - 2024 IEEE International Conference …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the trend of develo** “low altitude economy” nowadays, the solution of using
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm as a complementation to fixed wireless …