• Title/Summary/Keyword: Maritime Communications

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High-Performance Time-Code Diversity Scheme for Shore-to-Sea Maritime Visible-Light Communication

  • Kim, Hyeongji;Sewaiwar, Atul;Chung, Yeon-Ho
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.514-520
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    • 2015
  • This paper presents a novel shore-to-sea maritime data transmission system based on time-code diversity, using visible light in maritime environments to overcome the limitations of conventional maritime wireless communications. The proposed system is primarily comprised of existing LED-based lighthouses and maritime transceivers (marine beacons, buoys, etc.), and thus is considered cost-effective in terms of implementation. We first analyze maritime visible-light communications on the basis of the unique properties of a maritime environment, i.e. sea states (wave height, wind speed, etc.), plus atmospheric turbulence, using the Pierson-Moskowitz (PM) and JONSWAP (JS) spectrum models. It is found that the JS model outperforms the PM model, and that the coverage distance depends on the LED power and sea states. To combat maritime fading conditions that significantly degrade performance and coverage distance, we propose a time-code diversity (TCD) scheme in which the delayed versions of the original data are retransmitted using orthogonal Walsh codes. This TCD scheme is found to be superior, in that it offers three orders of magnitude in terms of BER performance, compared to a conventional (non-TCD) transmission scheme. The proposed scheme is robust and efficient in overcoming the effect of impairments present in maritime environments with a BER of approximately $10^{-5}$and a data rate of 100 Kbps at a distance of 1 km.

A Design of the Radio Protocol for Digital Communications in HF band (HF대 디지털통신을 위한 무선프로토콜 설계)

  • Kim, Tae-Hyun;Choi, Jo-Cheon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2007.10a
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    • pp.153-158
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    • 2007
  • The INMARSAT is able to long range maritime communications that can not use for expensive charge in non-SOLAS ship. Therefore, international discussion for the question that replacements use of MF/HF band for maritime distress and safety communications in maritime. HF data communications system may be effectively utilized for SOLAS ships as well as for the existing non-SOLAS vessels including the fishing boats, which navigate A2 and A3 sea areas. The HF data communications may have various functions such as e-mail services, broadcasting services of up-to-date information related to marine safety, position reporting services, polling services etc. However, the present HF e-mail communications protocols have a problem of increasing calling redundancy as the number of channels in operation increases. This paper new protocol and communication sequence proposed in this submission establishes a proper radio link automatically and adaptively by taking channel traffic into account.

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Design of Traffic Sequence for the Maritime Data Communications in HF band (HF대 해상 데이터통신을 위한 통신시퀜스 설계)

  • Go, Yun-Gyu;Lee, Yeung-Su;Choi, Jo-Cheon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2008.05a
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    • pp.81-85
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    • 2008
  • The INMARSAT is able to long range maritime communications that can not use for expensive charge in small ship. Additional an opinion of unuseful NBDP that is international discussion for replacement methods for the effective data communications by using HF band. A feature of HF band communication is ionospheric propagation that have not the distance question as A2, A3 and A4 sea areas. Therefore all navigation ship should has supplied service such as MSI, VMS, E-mail beside of distress and public communication that is demanded a design of communication sequence for using SSB transceiver. This paper has designed the new packet and communication sequence of truly and automatically radio link for maritime data communications by SSB in HF band.

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A Study on the Maritime Security using RFID Applications (RFID 기술을 이용한 해상 인명사고 방지에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Chan;Jeong, Don-Ki;Choi, Byung-Ha
    • Proceedings of KOSOMES biannual meeting
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.299-301
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    • 2006
  • It is very important to protect life, property at sea and marine environments from any pollution. The RFID when it applies a technique, is able to raise the stability of vessel as controling the mobile course and an entrance and exit of the crews as well as previously preventing accident from the vessel. The RFID technique which is applied, It show the effect which prevents an accident in advance, Currently it is used plentifully from physical distribution field and RFID KS domestic Standard $860MHz{\sim}960MHz$ band use the crew has the RFID tag and it will grasp incoming, leaving and movement.

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Communication Performance of Inductive Coupler Using Nanocrystalline Alloy (나노결정립 합금을 이용한 유도형 결합기의 통신 성능)

  • Yang, Seung-Ho;Jeong, Jae-Hwan;Sohn, Kyung-Rak
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2018.05a
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    • pp.154-154
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    • 2018
  • Conventional inductive powerline communications typically use ferrite cores. However, since the recent nanocrystalline cores are expected to perform better, this paper aims to measure the performance of inductive couplers using nanocrystalline cores. To do this, we used inductive powerline communications to observe the communication range when increasing the number of cores from one to five. This experiment shows that we have the best communication performance when we connect 5 cores.

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Detection Scheme Based on Gauss - Seidel Method for OTFS Systems (OTFS 시스템을 위한 Gauss - Seidel 방법 기반의 검출 기법)

  • Cha, Eunyoung;Kim, Hyeongseok;Ahn, Haesung;Kwon, Seol;Kim, Jeongchang
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.244-247
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    • 2022
  • In this paper, the performance of the decoding schemes using linear MMSE filters in the frequency and time domains and the reinforcement Gauss-Seidel algorithm for the orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) system that can improve robustness under high-speed mobile environments are compared. The reinforcement Gauss-Seidel algorithm can improve the bit error rate performance by suppressing the noise enhancement. The simulation results show that the performance of the decoding scheme using the linear MMSE filter in the frequency domain is severely degraded due to the effect of Doppler shift as the mobile speed increases. In addition, the decoding scheme using the reinforcement Gauss-Seidel algorithm under the channel environment with 120 km/h and 500 km/h speeds outperforms the decoding schemes using linear MMSE filters in the frequency and time domains.

Gas-Flow Sensor using Optical Fiber Bragg Grating(FBG)

  • Shim, Joon-Hwan;Cho, Seok-Je;Yu, Yung-Ho;Sohn, Kyung-Rak
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.32 no.9
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    • pp.717-722
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    • 2008
  • We have proposed and demonstrated an gas-flow sensor using optical fiber bragg grating(FEG). The flow sensor has no electronics and no mechanical parts in its sensing part and the structure is th11s simple and immune to electromagnetic interference(EMI). The FEG sensor was consisted qf the sensing element and a coil heater. The metal coil was used to supply the current to the FEG. While some currents supply to the coil, the refractive index of the FEG under the coil is changed and thus the wavelength shift of fiber optic sensor was induced In this work, the wavelength shift according to flow-rate was experimentally studied and was used to evaluate the gas flow-rate in a gas tube. As a result, it was possible to measure the flow-rate in a linear range from 5 to $20{\ell}/min$ with a resolution of approximately $1{\ell}/min$ at the applied currents of 100 mA and 120 mA. The measured sensitivities were $15.3\;pm/\ell/min$ for 100 mA and $20.2\;pm/\ell/min$ for 120 mA.

Performance of Concatenated Reed-Solomon and Convolutional Codes for Digital Modems in HF Data Communications (HF 데이터 통신에서 디지털 모뎀을 위한 RS 및 컨볼루션 부호의 연접 부호 성능)

  • Kim, Jeong-Chang;Yang, Gyu-Sik;Jeong, Gi-Ryong;Park, Dong-Kook;Jung, Sung-Hun
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.190-196
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, we propose an improved error correction code in order to improve the performance of digital modems for HF data communications and verify the performance of the proposed scheme. The proposed scheme employs outer Reed-Solomon codes concatenated with inner convolutional codes. Numerical results show that the proposed system significantly improves the bit error rate performance compared to the conventional PACTOR-III modems. Hence, the proposed system can improve the bandwidth efficiency of digital modems for HF data communications.

A Image Contrast Enhancement Using Clustering of Image Histogram (히스토그램 군집화를 이용한 영상 대비 향상)

  • Hong, Seok-Keun;Park, Joon-Woo;Kang, Byeong-Jo;Choi, Yu-Na;Cho, Seok-Je
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.379-380
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    • 2009
  • 히스토그램 스트레칭이나 히스토그램 균등화 등 기존 대비 향상 기법들과 히스토그램 균등화 기반의 수많은 방법들은 저대비에 소수의 화소들이 넓게 퍼져 있는 영상에 대해서 만족할만한 결과를 내지 못한다. 따라서 본 논문은 군집화 방법을 이용한 새로운 영상 대비 향상 기법을 제안한다. 히스토그램의 군집수는 원영상의 히스토그램을 분석하여 얻을 수 있다. 히스토그램 성분들을 K-means 알고리즘을 이용하여 군집화한다. 그리고 히스토그램 군집 범위와 군집의 화소수 비율을 비교하여 히스토그램 스트레칭과 히스토그램 균등화를 선택적으로 적용한다. 실험 결과로부터 제안한 방법이 기존의 대비 향상 기법들보다 더 효과적임을 확인할 수 있었다.