Ship Wireless Sensor

Dear Colleagues,

At present, the development of intelligent ships and unmanned ships has attracted widespread attention in the field of shipping. This will greatly enhance the level of digital and intelligent development of shipping and enable efficient navigation of ships, leading to rapid advancements. Moreover, wireless ship sensors and their information transmission networks are the key technologies among them. The major technical issues related to the intelligent perception of ships’ navigation environments, real-time fusion of information online, self-organizing networks of perception nodes, and efficient routing transmissions are worthy of an in-depth exploration, especially the urgent and significant practical applications of theoretical methods regarding the intelligent navigation of ships.

• Background:

With the rapid development of intelligent ships and unmanned ships, the research on comprehensive wireless sensing technology for ship navigation has attracted great attention.

• Aim and scope:

1) Front end of marine wireless sensor systems;

2) Marine wireless sensor systems;

3) Marine wireless sensor networks;

4) Ocean Internet of Things networking;

5) Wireless sensor information fusion for ships.

• History:

In the past, ship navigation neglected the comprehensive perception of the ship's own state and the surrounding marine environment, making it impossible to achieve highly energy-efficient navigation.

• Cutting-edge research:

Current state-of-the-art research focuses on ocean multi-source sensor information fusion; ocean collaborative perception; and integrated ocean network synesthesia.

• The types of topics we are looking for papers to cover:

1) Ocean physical/chemical sensors; marine hydrological monitoring sensors; biosensors.

2) Ship wireless sensor monitoring systems; layout of ship sensor units; design of new wireless sensor modules for ships.

3) Marine wireless sensor network monitoring; deployment of surface/underwater wireless sensor networks; ocean wireless sensor networking; ocean wireless sensor networks routing; ocean sensor network relay; wireless sensor network for ships; topology optimization of ocean wireless sensor networks.

4) Ocean Internet of Things for assisted navigation; efficient information transmission based on ocean Internet of Things.

5) Ocean wireless sensor network information fusion; ocean network edge computing; ocean network cloud edge systems.

Prof. Dr. Ying Zhang
Prof. Dr. Zhihua Hu
Dr. Xinqiang Chen
Guest Editors

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• physical/chemical sensors
• ocean/ship wireless sensors
• ocean wireless sensor network
• ocean internet of things
• ocean mobile edge computing
• networking
• ocean network topology optimization
• ocean network information security