An Offshore Maritime Edge Computing Network: Design and Experiment

Abstract

With the rapid development of maritime activities, there has been an increasing number of maritime ships in offshore areas, as well as a growing demand for low-latency maritime communication and computation networks. The existing network infrastructures fall behind and cannot meet the increasing demands for ship-to-shore communication, such as, maritime transportation and emergence rescue. In this paper, we build a Ship-to-Shore (S2S) network for constructed the Offshore Maritime Edge Computing (OMEC) system with the onshore control center and edge computing nodes, aiming to achieve intelligent offshore monitoring. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed OMEC system is able to meet the requirements of various series, such as hydrological and meteorological data monitoring, and ship identification.