Maritime Complex Environment and Wireless Communication

As an essential part of human existence, the oceans hold a vast wealth of resources and have increasingly become a focal point for cooperation and competition among nations. The growing demands for marine resource exploitation and environmental protection have made marine communication technologies vital for oceanographic research, ecological monitoring, and national defense. Advancing next-generation, high-speed marine communication technologies and systems has emerged as a key challenge in academia and industry. With the rising frequency of maritime activities and the rapid expansion of the maritime economy, adapting to the complex and dynamic marine environment is crucial to achieving comprehensive environmental sensing, seamless connectivity, and efficient resource sharing. These advancements will support intelligent marine applications, enhance maritime security, and facilitate ocean exploration and sustainable utilization.



Complex marine environments pose significant challenges to wireless communications. Typhoons bring heavy rainfall, altering the troposphere’s refractive index and causing anomalous radio wave propagation. Hurricanes disrupt ionospheric electron density, increasing time delays and fading in high-frequency communication. Additionally, atmospheric ducts, tropospheric fluctuations, and ionospheric disturbances significantly impact radio wave propagation, leading to channel instability and cross-medium interference. To address these challenges, it is urgent to explore new technologies to develop an intelligent, resilient, and high-quality maritime communication system with environmental awareness to enhance communication efficiency and reliability. Then, the high-accuracy channel models will be constructed, incorporating space weather and atmospheric conditions. As a result, radio measurements, channel modeling, wireless communication, and artificial intelligence will be integrated to deepen the understanding of radio wave propagation and communication in complex marine environments. The expected results will overcome the struggle to capture the spatial and temporal variability of the radio environment using traditional measurement techniques and reduce the prediction errors of existing channel models. It will support the development of next-generation, high-speed marine communication technologies, strengthen marine communication networks, and provide essential technical support for maritime disaster warnings, global climate observation, and near real-time ocean data transmission.

• New maritime communication network infrastructures.

• Sustainable solutions for marine environmental monitoring.

• Large-scale sensor networks for ocean climate monitoring and space weather sounding.

• Measurements and modeling of maritime radio environments.

• Radio channel modeling based on multi-physical field coupling.

• Digital Twin and simulation for maritime communication networks.

• Channel estimation, network coding, multiple access technologies, and adaptive transmission technologies for maritime communications.

• Maritime quantum communication.

• Marine Internet of Things.

• Maritime cybersecurity.

• Maritime emergency communication.

• Anti-jamming technologies of maritime communication.

• Spectrum sharing and dynamic allocation of maritime communication system

• UAVs/USVs-based Cooperative relay and coverage enhancement for maritime communication.

• Impact of typhoon disturbances on marine communication.

• Early warnings of harsh marine environment and communication effects.

• New technologies like integrated sensing, artificial intelligence, big data, and edge computing for maritime applications.