Transmission rate control of ASO-TDMA in multi-hop maritime communication network

We consider a ship ad-hoc network (SANET) that extends the service coverage for data communication with the multi-hop connectivity among the ships. In this paper, we propose two means of transmission rate control to maximize the system throughput subject to the reservation-based random access that is is inherent to the ad-hoc self-organizing TDMA (ASO-TDMA) protocol in SANET. It has been demonstrated that the proposed control schemes can maintain the maximum system throughput adaptively as the number of ships varies for the different hop ranges and their target attempt rates.