Green Energy and Content Aware Scheduling in Maritime Wideband Communication Networks

Abstract

The advances of green wireless networks have brought an alternative energy for maritime wideband networks, which could significantly reduce the expense of maritime wideband networks construction and maintenance. In Chap. 3, the framework for vessel surveillance video uploading is developed. However, it has not considered the energy issues in the network scenario, i.e., both energy charging and discharging processes are not considered, and thus it is not applicable to the green-energy-powered maritime wireless networks. With the emerging green energy, such as solar, wind and hydro, etc, it is possible to cost-effectively construct green-energy-powered maritime wireless networks, which can render significant benefits in terms of both energy supplement and cost consumption. However, green energy is dynamic and sometimes even intermittent, which shifts the fundamental design criterion of maritime wideband communication networks from energy efficiency to energy sustainability. The video transmission scheduling issues considering network throughput and energy sustainability of green-energy-powered maritime wideband communication networks will be investigated in this chapter, by modeling the energy buffer of infostations and DTN throw box as a $G/G/1$ queue.