Abstract:
This study explores how cognitive radios can be used to leverage heterogeneous networks and enhance communication coverage in the maritime industry. Because of
things like poor infrastructure, distance from shore stations, weather, and expensive
deployment costs, maritime operations frequently struggle to establish consistent, longrange communication. The objective is to increase the communication coverage area
of maritime systems to support a variety of marine users by employing unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) as mobile base stations and relays using clustering techniques.
Coverage restrictions can be overcome by choosing the best routing paths by combining many communication technologies and taking advantage of their complementing
capabilities. This thesis focuses at different heterogeneous connection configurations,
evaluates their effectiveness, and talks about how relevant they are in marine environments. Comprehensive simulation results show how flexible cognitive radios are and
how important they are for overcoming scarcity issue, especially in the harsh maritime
environment where safe communication is essential. Moreover, the integration of UAVs
in marine environment provides promising solution in an affordable way to increase
network coverage. By choosing the best routes, the network becomes more flexible and
resilient. It also uses less energy, low latency, manages spectrum issue efficiently, and
has high packet delivery rates.
