Publication detail

Cost- and Delay-Efficient Backhaul Selection for Time-Sensitive Maritime Communications

SAAFI, S. VIKHROVA, O. FODOR, G. HOŠEK, J. ANDREEV, S.

Original Title

Cost- and Delay-Efficient Backhaul Selection for Time-Sensitive Maritime Communications

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

Extending the existing near-shore terrestrial infrastructure with non-terrestrial network capabilities helps maritime operators alleviate the high costs of communication and meet the requirements imposed by time-sensitive applications. Recognizing that the deployment of terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks necessitates selecting from the available wireless backhaul solutions, which have dissimilar data transmission costs and communication link qualities, it is essential to propose an appropriate backhaul selection policy. Specifically, in this letter, we coin a backhaul selection policy that manages the inherent trade-off between data transmission expenses and timely throughput guarantees for maritime communications. We formulate the backhaul selection problem as a Markov decision process and show that the proposed solution is not only more cost-efficient, but also satisfies the timely throughput requirements in contrast to currently used greedy strategies.

Keywords

Backhaul selection, cost efficiency, near-shore communications, non-terrestrial networks, timely throughput

Authors

SAAFI, S.; VIKHROVA, O.; FODOR, G.; HOŠEK, J.; ANDREEV, S.

Released

3. 2. 2023

Publisher

IEEE

ISBN

1558-2558

Periodical

IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS

Year of study

27

Number

4

State

United States of America

Pages from

1235

Pages to

1239

Pages count

5

URL

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10036405

Full text in the Digital Library

http://hdl.handle.net/11012/244287

BibTex

@article{BUT182894,
  author="Salwa {Saafi} and Olga {Vikhrova} and Gabor {Fodor} and Jiří {Hošek} and Sergey {Andreev}",
  title="Cost- and Delay-Efficient Backhaul Selection for Time-Sensitive Maritime Communications",
  journal="IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS",
  year="2023",
  volume="27",
  number="4",
  pages="1235--1239",
  doi="10.1109/LCOMM.2023.3242363",
  issn="1558-2558",
  url="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10036405"
}