MaritimeManet: Mobile ad-hoc networking at sea

MaritimeManet is a system concept for communication between maritime platforms like vessels, commercial ships or buoys. When such platforms are equipped with MaritimeManet capabilities, they can form a network on an ad-hoc basis, i.e., without the need for fixed communication infrastructure. MaritimeManet is based on multiple directive beams for transmission, which is a radical departure from the classical approach to ad-hoc networks that uses omni-directional transmissions. The need for this different approach is the desired much longer transmission range in the naval environment. Due to its specific approach, MaritimeManet unites the previously deemed incompatible features of high capacity, high flexibility, self-organising and self-healing communication.