This book presents a novel framework design for the next generation
Marine Wireless Communication Networks (MWCNs). The authors first
provide an overview of MWCNs, followed by a discussion of challenges in
the design and development of MWCNs in support of a diversity of marine
services such as real-time marine monitoring, offshore oil exploration,
drilling, marine tourism and fishing. The authors then propose cross
layer networking solutions to achieve a high performance modern MWCN
that enables efficient and reliable data transmissions under hostile
marine environment, which include the network deployment, the physical
layer channel coding, intelligent network access and resource
management, and learning-based opportunistic routing. Finally, the
authors summarize the book and present some open issues that will lead
to new research directions in the next generation MWCNs.