Project

Enhancing QoS in Long-Range Ocean Wireless Communication Networks: A Performance Evaluation

Marine fishermen face challenges of limited cellular coverage and isolation during fishing trips, leading to safety risks and mental depression. This project proposes a cost-effective solution that enables fishermen to use their smartphones for internet access at sea, using Wi-Fi and a long-range backhaul network. The proposed solution allows marine fishermen to use their existing smartphones for internet access at sea using Wi-Fi. An Access Point (AP) on the boat connects to an onboard gateway, which then connects to a long-range Wi-Fi backhaul network .Availability of internet services at sea is essential for accessing applications and services that can improve fishing business, such as E-commerce and live data of potential fishing zones advisory, search and rescue operations . Link quality parameters need to be studied to identify locations with reliable internet connectivity for emergency communication using VoIP services and other applications.

Publication Details

• Raj, D. (2020). Performance Evaluation of QoS in Marine Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) Network. 2020 International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS, COMSNETS 2020. https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS48256.2020.9027424
• Raj, D., Parthasarathy, V., Rao, S. N., & Ramesh, M. V. (2017). Performance assessment of an extremely challenged mobile infrastructure network over the oceans. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. https://doi.org/10.1145/3007748.3018284
• Raj, D., Ramesh, M. V., & Duttagupta, S. (2017). Delay tolerant routing protocol for heterogeneous marine vehicular mobile ad-hoc network. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2017. https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2017.7917607
• Raj, D., Ramesh, M. V., & Rao, S. N. (2020). Link Quality Measurements for Marine Vehicular to Infrastructure Network (V2I). 2020 International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS, COMSNETS 2020. https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS48256.2020.9027379
• Rao, S. N., Raj, D., Parthasarathy, V., Aiswarya, S., Ramesh, M. V., & Rangan, V. (2018). A novel solution for high speed internet over the oceans. INFOCOM 2018 – IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops.
• Jennath, H. S., Nair, N., Rao, S., Raj, D., Narayanan, S., & Krishnaswamy, D. (2017). A resilient self-organizing offshore communication network for fishermen. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. https://doi.org/10.1145/3007748.3018283
• Unni, S., Raj, D., Sasidhar, K., & Rao, S. (2015). Performance measurement and analysis of long range Wi-Fi network for over-the-sea communication. 2015 13th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks, WiOpt 2015. https://doi.org/10.1109/WIOPT.2015.7151030

Patent Details

• S. N. Rao, M. V. Ramesh, and P. V. Rangan, “Mobile infrastructure for coastal region offshore communications and networks,” U.S. Patent US10045227B2, Aug. 7, 2018.