• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.33 no.8
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• pp.52-62
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• 2016

해양에서 음파를 사용하여 수중통신을 시도할 경우 해양매질은 음향 도파관(acoustic waveguide)의 역할을 하게 되고, 이 경우 해양환경의 변동성과 그에 따른 음파와 매질의 간섭에 의해 수중통신 채널의 변동성이 발생한다. 수중음향 채널은 대역 제한 채널이면서 잔향음 제한 채널이고 강한 도플러 변이 채널이므로 수신된 통신 신호는 육상통신에 비해 심한 인접 심볼간 간섭(intersymbol interference)과 위상변이를 가지게 된다. 따라서 수중통신을 시도함에 있어 이러한 해양환경 변동성과 그에 따른 수중음향 채널 변동에 대한 충분한 고려가 필요하다. 본 논문은 수중통신 시스템 구성에 도움을 줄 수 있도록 수중통신 채널에 영향을 미치는 해양 매질의 기본적 특성에 대해 소개하고 수중통신 채널과의 상관성 및 환경 변동성에 따른 통신채널의 변동성에 대해 소개하고자 한다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.114-119
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• 2019

The transmitted acoustic signals are severely influenced by multiply reflected signals from boundaries, such as sea surface and bottom in the shallow water. Very large reflection signals from boundaries cause inter-symbol interference so that the performance of the underwater acoustic communication is degraded. Usually, the waveform shaping filters are used to prevent the reflected signals under this kind of acoustic channel. Especially, the raised cosine filter is widely used, which can also be used to restrict the bandwidth of the transmitted signal. In this study, we evaluate the raised cosine filter for image data transmission in the shallow water, and propose a new modified raised cosine filter. The QPSK (Quadrature Phase Shift Keying) system is used for the underwater acoustic communication simulations with different distances and symbol rates. As a result, the bit error rate was reduced from the minimum 1.0 % to the maximum 32 %.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 1997.04a
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• pp.513-517
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• 1997

수중음향 센서로서 감도가 높고 제작이 비교적 용이한 광섬유 하이드로폰은 근래에 미국 및 유럽 등지에서 활발히 연구 개발되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 알루미늄 맨드릴에 150 m 길이의 광섬유를 감아 광섬유 하이드로폰을 제작하였다. 광섬유 하이드로폰의 음향 감지 성능을 보기 위하여 Mach-Zehnder형 광간섭계를 구성하고 신호 안정화를 위하여 3 * 3 광결합기를 이용하였으며 이것을 음향수조에서 실험을 하였다. 음향신호의 주파수를 2kHz로 구동하였을 때 제작된 광섬유 하이드로폰은 음향신호를 안정적으로 감지함을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.255-261
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• 2014

This paper presents an underwater acoustic communication with nonlinear chirp modulation. The information is carried by the carrier amplitude, frequency or phase in the most common underwater acoustic communications. However, the proposed method includes the information within frequency variation of carrier wave for a symbol. Especially, as carrier wave the hyperbolic frequency modulated signal, one of the nonlinear chirp signal, is used and it is robust in the Doppler channel. The proposed method was analyzed and compared to conventional method by simulation. When the doppler shift existed, the error probability of the proposed method is reduced by 5~12 % than conventional method with linear frequency modulated signal. Sea trial was performed to analyze the performance of the proposed method.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.26 no.8
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• pp.381-389
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• 2007

In this paper, the measuring method of underwater acoustic communication channel characteristics in the shallow water using the autocorrelation characteristic of PN sequence and the undorwater communication channel analysis results from the received signal sample data are described. For measuring the underwater acoustic communication channel characteristics, two PN sequences are used as a transmitted data of I-channel and Q-channel of QPSK symbol and QPSK signal is transmitted with symbol rate of 5 kHz and carrier frequency of 25 kHz. In the receiver the received signal, which pass through 675 m and 1492 m, is sampled and then stored. Using the stored sample data, the scattering function, coherent time, delay power profile, spaced-tone autocorrelation function, delay spread, and coherent bandwidth of each propagation distance cases are analyzed. Based on the analysis results, several guidelines are suggested for the design and implementation of underwater transmission system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 1997.04a
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• pp.524-532
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• 1997

수중음향표적 특히 선박방사소음을 탐지하거나 식별하는 군사적 목적의 수동소나는 수중청음기 배열로 구성되며 각 배열센서에 수신된 신호에 배열 신호처리기술을 적용하여 선박의 거리, 방위 탐지는 물론 선박의 음향적 특징을 식별하는 고도의 음향장치이다. 그러나 이러한 장치운용자의 선박탐지, 식별이나 새로운 수동소나 개발, 나아가 스텔스 능력의 선박 설계를 위해서는 선박방사소음의 측정, 분석 및 예측에 관한 이해가 선행되어야 할 것이다. 본 연구는 대표적인 선박방사소음 측정시스템의 소개, 방사소음발생기구, 측정자료의 분석 및 예측에 관한 기초기술을 연구 분석한 내용이다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.41 no.6
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• pp.610-620
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• 2022

An acoustic vector sensor can simultaneously receive vector quantities, such as particle velocity and acceleration, as well as acoustic pressure at one location, and thus it can be used as a single input multiple output receiver in underwater acoustic communication systems. On the other hand, vector signals received by a single vector sensor have different channel characteristics due to the azimuth angle between the source and receiver and the difference in propagation angle of multipath in each component, producing different communication performances. In this paper, we propose a channel parameter-based weighting method to improve the performance of an acoustic communication system using a single vector sensor. To verify the proposed method, we used communication data collected from the experiment conducted during the KOREX-17 (Korea Reverberation Experiment). For communication demodulation, block-based time reversal technique which is robust against time-varying channels were utilized. Finally, the communication results showed that the effectiveness of the channel parameter-based weighting method for the underwater communication system using a single vector sensor was verified.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.41 no.5
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• pp.481-491
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• 2022

The active sonar transmission system consists of a transmitter that outputs an electrical signal and an underwater acoustic transducer that converts the amplified electrical signal into an acoustic signal. In general, the transmitter output characteristics are dependent on load impedance, and an underwater acoustic transducer, which is a transmitter load, has a characteristic that the electrical impedance varies largely according to frequency when driven. In such a variable impedance condition, the output of the active sonar transmission system may become unstable. Hence, this paper proposes a design and control technique of a sonar transmitter for transmitting a stable transmission signal even under variable impedance conditions of an underwater acoustic transducer in an active sonar transmission system. The electrical impedance characteristics of the underwater acoustic transducer are experimentally analyzed, and the sonar transmitter is composed of a single-phase full-bridge inverter, an LC filter, and a matching circuit. In this paper, the design and output control method of the sonar transmitter is proposed to protect the transmitter and transducer. It can secure stable output voltage characteristics even if it transmits the Linear Frequency Modulation (LFM) signal. The validity is verified through the simulation and the experiment.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.12
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• pp.2151-2156
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• 2006

Beamforming for underwater acoustic communication (UAC) is affected by the broadband feature of UAC signal, which has relatively low currier frequency as compared to the signal bandwidth. The narrow-band assumption does not hold good in UAC. In this paper, we discuss a broadband FIR beamformer for UAC using the baseband equivalent way signal model. We consider the broadband FIR beamformer for QPSK UAC with carrier frequency 25kHz and symbol rate 5kHz. Array geometry is a uniform linear way with 8 omni-directional elements and sensor spacing is the half of the carrier wavelength. The simulation results show that the broadband n beamformer achieves nearly optimum signal to interference and noise ratio (SINR) and outperforms the conventional narrowband beamformer by SINR 0.5dB when two-tap FIR filter is employed at each sensor and the inter-tap delay is a quarter of the symbol interval. The broadband FIR beamformer performance is more degraded as the FIR filter length is increased above a certain value. If the inter-tap delay is not greater than half of the symbol period, SINR performance does not depend on the inter-tap delay. More training period is required when the inter-tap delay is same as the symbol period.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.44-51
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• 2001

This Paper the practical echo signal synthesis model to predict the target strength and signal shape of a submarine for a valuable tool to active sonar engineer. It is based on UTAHID (Underwater TArget by Highlight Distribution) model which is relocated highlight points along to external hull for aspect angle, and synthesized echo signal by modified grouping highlights to internal scatter cloud. Proposed model is analyzed target strength characteristics on various incident pulse length, and synthesis signal signature, target time spreading loss, echo elongation effect and so on. Thus it can be efficiently used in various real systems related to underwater target echo signal synthesis, that is, active sonar, acoustic countermeasure and surveillance system.