Coastal communications based on cellular networks with distributed antennas

Integrating cellular networks into coastal communications can significantly reduce communication cost and improve service quality. However, ocean communication scenario brings new challenges such as problem modeling, performance evaluation and larger coverage requirement. This paper proposes a communication architecture based on distributed antennas (DAs) and a tractably analytical model for coastal communications. Link distance distribution and network coverage are derived to evaluate such a network. Specially, the impact of quality-of-service (QoS) constraints of users on the network coverage are analyzed. Simulation results verify the analyses of this work.