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Novel Maritime Wireless Communication based on Mobile Technology for the Safety of Navigation: LTE-Maritime focusing on the Cell Planning and its Verification

  • Shim, Woo-Seong;Kim, Bu-Young;Park, Chan-Yong;Lee, Byeong-Hyeok
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.45 no.5
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    • pp.231-237
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    • 2021
  • Enhancing the performance of maritime wireless communication has been highlighted by the issue of cell planning in the sea area because of lack of an appropriate Propagation Loss Model (PLM). To resolve the cell planning issue in vast sea areas, it was essential to develop the (PLM) matching the intended sea area. However, there were considerable gaps between the prediction of legacy PLMs and field measurement in propagation loss and there was a need to develop the adjusted PLM (A-PLM). Therefore, cell planning was performed on this adjusted model, including modification of the base station's location, altitude, and antenna azimuth to meet the quality objectives. Furthermore, in order to verify the availability of the cell planning, Communication Service Quality Monitoring System (CS-QMS) was developed in the LTE-Maritime project to collect LTE signal quality information from the onboard equipment at regular intervals and to ensure that the service quality was high enough to satisfy the goals in each designated grid. As a result of verification, the success rate of RSRP was 95.7% for the intensive management zone (IMZ) and 96.4% for the interested zone (IZ), respectively.

Reduction of UKC for Very Large Tanker and Container Ship in Shallow Water

  • Lee, Sang-Min
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.409-420
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    • 2021
  • The decrease in under keel clearance (UKC) due to the increase of draft that occurs during advancing and turning of very large vessels of different types was analyzed based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The trim change in the Duisburg test case (DTC) container ship was much smaller than that of the KRISO very large crude oil carrier 2 (KVLCC2). The sinkage of both ships increased gradually as the water depth became shallower. The amount of sinkage change in DTC was greater than that in KVLCC2. The maximum heel angle was much larger for DTC than for KVLCC2. Both ships showed outward heel angles up to medium-deep water. However, when the water depth became shallow, an inward heel was generated by the shallow water effect. The inward heel increased rapidly in very shallow water. For DTC, the reduction ratio was very large at very shallow water. DTC appeared to be larger than KVLCC2 in terms of the decreased UKC because of shallow water in advancing and turning. In this study, a new result was derived showing that a ship turning in a steady state due to the influence of shallow water can incline inward, which is the turning direction.

State of the Art of Human Factors Technologies for Ships and Ocean Engineering (선박해양공학 분야에서 인간공학기술의 활용현황 및 전망)

  • Kim, Hong-Tae;Lee, Jong-Gap;Lee, Dong-Gon;Park, Jin-Hyeong
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.99-111
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    • 2001
  • Human factors is a key issue in the maritime industry including ship design and navigation safety. Human factors for ship design is to optimize safety and convenience of crews and passengers. And human factors for navigation safety is to minimize marine accident occurrence by human and organizational error. There are several technical requirements to incorporate human factors and marine system Risk analysis. human behaviour analysis and human M&S(modeling and simulation) are examples of technical requirements. This paper provides the key issues and technologies of human factors for ship design and navigation safety.

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Deficiencies of the GMDSS Distress Communication System and Methods to Improve (GMDSS 조난통신 제도의 문제점과 개선 방안)

  • Kim, Byung-Ok
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.213-216
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    • 2005
  • The distress communication system in the maritime mobile service had almost depended on the wireless telephony or telegraphy technique. The GMDSS (Global Maritime Distress and Safety System) which was introduced in 1992 brought a lot of changes in the maritime distress communication service such as the automatic transmission of distress signals and implementation of global search and rescue networks. However, there are some deficiencies in the GMDSS distress communication system such as a lack of compatibility in the maritime distress communication between GMDSS ships and Non-GMDSS ships, increasing deceptive or false distress alerts generated by GMDSS installations, lack of understanding about the GMDSS installations for the operators. In this paper, the problems of distress communication system in the maritime mobile service are analyzed and the methods to solve or minimize these problems are suggested.

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Using the AIS Plotter in the Safety of Coastal Passenger Ship (내항여객선 안전과 AIS 플로터 활용방안)

  • Kim, Y.M.
    • Proceedings of KOSOMES biannual meeting
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.75-83
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    • 2006
  • The Automatic Identification System (AIS) will provide valuable navigational information to the coastal passenger ship to which RADAR did not cover until now. 112 skippers of coastal passenger ship who are using AIS plotter responded that the AIS is very useful to their safety and they are using the AIS effectively regardless of number of seafarers, ship's speed and navigation time. It is required that all coastal ships should install the AIS to improve the safety navigation in the coastal navigation area.

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Legal Issues in Application of the ISPS Code under Marine Cargo Insurance (해상적하보험에서 국제선박 및 항만시설 보안규칙의 적용상 법률적 쟁점)

  • Lee, Won-Jeong;Yoo, Byung-Ryong
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.307-316
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    • 2014
  • In view of the increased threat arising terrorism, the International Maritime Organization(IMO) adopted the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS Code) which attached to the SOLAS Convention. The ISPS Code requires a comprehensive set of measures to enhance the security of ships and port facilities. For example, a shipowner must obtain the International Ship Security Certificate(ISSC). If the carrying vessel has not ISSC, the ship may be detained by the contracting governments. The Joint Cargo Committee(JCC) in London adopted the Cargo ISPS Endorsement, in which the assured who knowingly ships the cargoes on a non-ISPS Code compliant vessel will have no cover. However, where there is no the Cargo ISPS Endorsement in a Marine Cargo Insurance Policy and the cargo is carried by a non-ISPS Code certified vessel, the legal problem is whether or not it would constitute a breach of an implied warranty of seaworthiness and/or an implied warranty of legality. The purpose of this article is to analyze the potential legal issue on the relations between non-ISPS Code compliant vessel and two implied warranties under Marine Insurance Act(1906) in U.K.

Deficiencies of the GMDSS Distress Communication System and Methods to Improve (GMDSS 조난통신 제도의 문제점과 개선 방안)

  • KIM Byung-Ok
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.733-738
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    • 2005
  • The distress communication system in the maritime mobile service had almost depended on the wireless telephony or telegraphy technique. The GMDSS (Global Maritime Distress and Safety System) which was introduced in 1992 brought a lot of changes in the maritime distress communication service such as the automatic transmission of distress signals and implementation of global search and rescue networks. However, there are some deficiencies in the GMDSS distress communication system such as a lack of compatibility in the maritime distress communication between CMDSS ships and Non-GMDSS ships, increasing deceptive or false distress alerts generated by GMDSS installations, lack of understanding about the CMDSS installations for the operators. In this paper, the problems of distress communication system in the maritime mobile service are analyzed and the methods to solve or minimize these problems are suggested.

Structural Safety Evaluation of a 3-way Damper Valve for Scrubber-linked Exhaust Gas Control (스크러버 연계 배기가스 배출제어용 3방향 댐퍼밸브의 구조 안전성 평가)

  • Kim, Young-Hun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.23 no.6_2
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    • pp.1007-1014
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    • 2020
  • IMO(International Maritime Organization) continues to strengthen environmental regulations on exhaust gases such as CO2, NOx, SOx. As for sulfur oxides, from 1 January 2020, all ships on international voyages must use fuel with a sulfur content of 0.5% or less. Or, it is obligatory to use an exhaust gas treatment device that has the same effect. Shipping companies are using low-sulfur oil, replacing them with LNG fuel, or installing scrubbers that suppress sulfur oxide emissions. In the case of ships using bunker C oil, the load on the engine is lower when entering and departing, so the exhaust gas pressure is lowered and the scrubber cannot be properly utilized. Therefore, diesel oil with low sulfur content is used when entering and leaving the coast. When diesel oil is used, exhaust gas is directly discharged through the control system and piping system, and when bunker C oil is used, sulfur oxides are reduced by scrubbers through other control systems and piping systems to discharge exhaust gas. Accordingly, a company has developed a system called a three-way damper valve that can control exhaust gas emissions while integrating these two control systems and piping systems into one. In this study, the control characteristics of the integrated exhaust gas control system and structural safety against external loads in a high-temperature exhaust gas environment were reviewed.

A Study on the Development Direction Against Marine Disasters and Ship Communication (해상 재해 방지와 선박통신의 발전방향에 관한 연구)

  • 신현식
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.477-484
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    • 1999
  • With the development of electronic communication techniques, maritime communication system has been much changed. Since the maritime communications by the radio telegraph have been initiated, the GMDSS came into internationally effect for the life and safety at the sea from 1992, new maritime communication system has been constructed. The new systems have being implemented and applied to merchant ships over 300G/T (or safety of the life. But the annual reports show that most of casualties last 10 years happened to small ships, have been gradually increased. For the improvement of those circumstances, more effective SAR system and administrative plans should be executed. In this paper, we analyzed the maritime casualties last 10 years, maritime communication system, and SAR facilities in domestic. Through the result from the analysis, we discussed the current situations, summarized several conclusions for the developmental proposals.

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A Study on the Development of Tracking Algorithm for Shipborne Automatic Tracking Aids (선박자동추적장치의 목표물 추적 알고리즘 개발에 관한 연구)

  • 김석재;구자윤;윤수원
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.5-13
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    • 2003
  • Ships of 500 gross tonnage and upwards constructed an or after 1 July 2002 shall have an automatic tracking aids according to SOLAS V/19 but existing ships less than 10,000 gross tonnage constructed before 1 July 2002 have potential collision risks due to the lack of automatic plotting devices like as an ATA. This paper aims to provide a homemade ATA by developing the tracking algorithm for ATA and to prevent collision incidents by distributing ATA system to coasters.

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