Exploiting White Space Communication for increasing GNSS reliability in maritime transportation

The recent switch-off of the analog TV freed the White Space Communication (WSC) frequency bands which can be now allocated to other services. A possible utilization can be in the maritime environment to provide vessels with a broadband communication channel for increased security and other transportation applications. Such a channel can also be exploited to make ranging measurement between vessels. In this work, the use of the WSC channel for Cooperative Vessels Positioning (CVP) is considered. Different CVP methods are introduced and the effectiveness of CVP is evaluated, through simulations, considering random and real scenarios.