Handbook for Marine Radio Communication, Fifth Edition updates the Global Maritime Distress Safety System (GMDSS) rules, regulations, and procedures in light of the revised regulations introduced by the International Telecommunication Union in 2008. It is an incomparable reference source for all vessels using maritime radio communication systems. This fifth edition details recent changes in operating procedures to GMDSS, improvements to communication equipment, and the new opportunities they provide. This includes Ship Security Alerting System, Long Range Identification and Tracking, Automatic Identification System-Search and Rescue Transmitters, Iridium communication services, and amendments to GMDSS certification. The book continues to be a useful teaching aid for all GMDSS topics. This book provides full access to referenced material including comprehensive contact details of pertinent organizations, relevant regulatory authorities, and service providers. The enhanced format, larger

United States Marines in the Persian Gulf, 1990-1991. Part of a series covering the operations of the I Marine Expeditionary Force; the 1st Marine Division; the 2d Marine Division; the 3d Marine Aircraft Wing; Marine Combat Service Support; Marine Forces Afloat; and Marines in Operation Provide Comfort. This monograph is an account of the role of communications within the I Marine Expeditionary Force and the Marine Forces Afloat during the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War.

As ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore communications grow increasingly important to long and short term cruising, Mike Harris, a veteran sailor and the author of Understanding Weatherfax, offers this complete guide to all forms of communication at sea. He examines the international marine use of cell phones, satellites, amateur radio, and email, cutting through the jargon and sales hype and allowing readers to make the right choices for their needs.

This book presents a novel framework design for the next generation Marine Wireless Communication Networks (MWCNs). The authors first provide an overview of MWCNs, followed by a discussion of challenges in the design and development of MWCNs in support of a diversity of marine services such as real-time marine monitoring, offshore oil exploration, drilling, marine tourism and fishing. The authors then propose cross layer networking solutions to achieve a high performance modern MWCN that enables efficient and reliable data transmissions under hostile marine environment, which include the network deployment, the physical layer channel coding, intelligent network access and resource management, and learning-based opportunistic routing. Finally, the authors summarize the book and present some open issues that will lead to new research directions in the next generation MWCNs.