Abstract:

Marine wireless communication is the base of actualizing and developing e-navigation strategy, but the existing means of maritime communication have many limits in their widespread applications, especially between in ship-shore and ship-ship communication. We propose a  broadband data transmission approach in maritime VHF, which can change the communication ways of maritime VHF. We also build a broadband data transmission model in maritime VHF based on OFDM by analyzing VHF spectrum characteristics. Simulations and experiments show that the proposed approach can obviously increase communication speed of maritime VHF and has lower BER.

Key words: maritime VHF, e-navigation, marine wireless communication, VDEs, OFDM