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Currently, the coastal communication is mainly provided by satellite networks, which are expensive with low transmission rate and unable to support underwater communication efficiently. In this work, we propose a communication architecture for coastal network based on long term evolution (LTE) cellular networks in which a cellular network architecture is designed for the maritime communication scenario. Some key technologies of next-generation cellular networks such as device-to-device (D2D) and multiple input multiple output (MIMO) are integrated into the proposed architecture to support more efficient data transmission. In addition, over-water nodes aid the transmission of underwater network to improve the communication quality. With the proposed communication architecture, the coastal network can provide high-quality communication service to traffics with different quality-of-service (QoS) requirements.

Communication architecture is a crucial component in smart grid. Most of the previous researches have been focused on the traditional Internet and proposed numerous evolutionary designs. However, the traditional network architecture has been reported with multiple inherent shortcomings, which bring unprecedented challenges for the Smart Grid. Moreover, the smart network architecture for the future Smart Grid is still unexplored. In this context, this paper proposes a clean-slate communication approach to boost the development of smart grid in the respective of Smart Identifier Network (SINET), named SI4SG. It also designs the service resolution mechanism and the ns-3 based simulating tool for the proposed communication architecture.