Simulation Analysis on BER Patterns Based Maritime Ad-hoc Networks

Shipbuilding is one of the major export industries of Korea, it has been occupied the top spot in world markets. It is not easy work to keep prestige up. It is necessary to develop the technologies of ship and IT convergence to strengthen competitive and to achieve sustainable growth. Wireless ad-hoc mesh network in sea environments is one of the important parts of ship and IT convergence. In this paper, the architecture of wireless maritime network communication is presented based on Wimax and the idea to simulate wireless communication on sea using Qualnet simulator is shown. We describe Bit Error Rate (BER) levels according to sea status, affects physical layer of wireless communication. BER patterns are designed using MATLAB.