• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제24권11호
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• pp.1526-1537
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• 2021

Due to the difference between the underwater communication environment and the terrestrial communication environment, the radio communication mainly used on the ground cannot be used in underwater. For this reason, in the underwater communication environment, various communication media such as acoustic waves, infrared rays, light and so on has been studied, but there exist several difficulties in operating them individually due to their physical limitations. The concept for overcoming these difficulties is the very underwater multi-media communication, a method to select a communication medium best suitable for the current underwater environment among underwater communication multimedia whenever there occurs underwater communication failure. In this paper, we present an underwater multi-media communication network based on star topology and a fragmentation and reassembly technique to solve the problems caused by the different MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) sizes among different underwater communication media. We also present the estimations and analysis on processing times in each of fragmentation and reassembly and the total data amount for transmitting fragments in our proposed underwater multi-media communication network.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제22권11호
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• pp.1259-1268
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• 2019

Recently, Communication media have been developed for the underwater communication in underwater environments where the underwater communication failures occur frequently. Although the underwater communication by one medium is not stable due to the influence of the underwater environment, the use of various communication media can complement each other and so this makes the underwater communication more stable. For this reason, this paper proposes approaches to the design and implementation of integrated MAC for complementing individual unstable underwater communications. In addition this paper presents the comparison and analysis on each of the proposed approaches so to be able to provide guidelines to designers and implementers of integrated MAC.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제23권7호
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• pp.819-829
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• 2020

Underwater communication is necessarily useful for various application domains such as saving of human lives from underwater disasters, marine resource exploration, underwater military fields, underwater environment or ecosystem monitoring, fish farm monitoring and management, etc. Even though the acoustic wave has been the main underwater communication media until now, several media such as optical waves, VLF/ELF waves, magnetic fields, and infrared rays also began to be treated as possible media for underwater communication. If these underwater communicate-possible media are used mixing together, the underwater communication can be much more reliable and efficient through complementing the disadvantages of each communication media with advantages of other communication media. In fact, mixing and using multi-media for underwater communication requires the data flow control in the connection process of different media due to their communication speed gaps and bandwidth differences, and, specially, in the flow control, the appropriate message fragmentation technique is required inevitably. For this reason, this paper presents a fragmentation framework and technique necessary to the flow control in the underwater multi-media communication. In addition, through its implementation and experiments, this paper shows the feasibility on the realization of the multi-media based underwater communication.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.997-1002
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• 2017

무선전파를 사용하는 지상통신과는 달리 1500[m/s] 속도의 음향채널이 사용되는 수중통신은 수중온도, 염도를 비롯한 통신환경에 민감할 뿐 아니라 3D 공간의 영향을 받는다. 3D 수중통신은 통신공간의 복잡성과 더불어 음파의 전파손실, 해저환경에서 발생되는 음향잡음 등에 민감하다. 본 연구에서는 이와 같은 3D 수중통신환경의 특성을 고려하여 3D 수중통신환경에서 운용되는 MANET을 대상으로 전송성능을 측정 분석하고 이를 토대로 수중 MANET 운용조건을 제시한다. 본 연구는 NS-2를 기반으로 구축한 수중통신 시뮬레이터를 사용하여 수행하며, 성능파라미터로는 처리율, 전송지연, 패킷손실율 및 소비에너지를 사용한다.

• 정보처리학회논문지:컴퓨터 및 통신 시스템
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.71-78
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• 2016

최근 환경오염에 의한 수질관리, 재난방지, 해양자원탐사 및 군사목적 등으로 수중환경에서의 음파통신에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있다. 그러나 수중네트워크는 물이라는 특수한 환경으로 인해 많은 제약사항이 존재한다. 이를 극복하기 위한 노력은 계속되고 있으며 더불어 보안의 필요성도 함께 중요시 되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 수중 음파통신에서 활용가능한 다양한 플랫폼에서 AES, ARIA, LEA 암호 알고리즘의 성능을 측정하고 그 결과를 비교 분석하여, 향후 수중 네트워크에서의 통신에 효율적으로 기밀성을 제공할 수 있도록 한다.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.180-188
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• 1997

This paper proposes a new efficient MAC(Media Access Control) protocol to establish the ultrasonic communication network for underwater vehicles, which ensures a certain level of maximum throughput regardless of the propagation delay of ultrasonic and allows fast data transmission through the multiple ultrasonic communication channel. A MAC protocol for underwater communication network that allows 'peer-to-peer' communication between a surface ship and multiple underwater systems is designed, and the proposed control protocol is implemented for its verification.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2000년도 하계학술대회 논문집 C
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• pp.1658-1660
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• 2000

Simple signs were usually exchanged as the means of underwater communications. As people recently, need more informations for underwater activities, necessities of underwater communication systems exchanging hunman voice are increased. The purpose of this paper is understanding the ordinary characteristics of underwater communication and investigating the necessary conditions for a good underwater communication system by making a basic communication module. The experiment is achieved by applying AM (Amplitude Modulation) which is mainly used for the underwater communication systems and using common ultrasonic transducers. Ultrasonic transducers usually have narrow bandwidth for transducing electrical energy to mechanical energy. For improvement of sound reconstruction, transducers need more bandwidth which covers voice's frequency range, and goof linearity characteristics in this frequency range. As underwater transmissions have many factors to distort signals. Amplitude Modulation is not a proper way for underwater communications. Using digital signal by sampling human voice should be a good way for this systems, because digital communication simplify transmitting signals.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.105-111
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• 1997

This Paper Proposes a new efficient system design strategies for the acoustic-based underwater multiple modem and media access control protocol. The system aims to establish the acoustic-based communication network of an underwater vehicles for deep sea mining, which ensures a certain level of maximum throughput regardless of the propagation delay of acoustic and allows fast data transmission through the acoustic-based multiple channel. A media access control protocol for integrated communication network and it's acoustic-based communication modems that allows 'peer-to-peer' communication between a surface mining plant multiple underwater system is designed, and the proposed media access control protocol is implemented for its verification. Furthermore, a proposed design strategies which make it possible to control the multiple vehicle for an underwater mining is presented in this paper.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.163-167
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• 2010

In underwater acoustic communication, acoustic signals from transducers or hydrophones are used. And the underwater acoustic communication channels are very complicated, because of vertical distribution of acoustic velocity according depths, and reflections from boundaries like as surface or bottom. For the implementation of the underwater acoustic communication channel, the image method or ray tracing method have been used. In this paper, we introduce a new approach for implementation of underwater acoustic communication channel using the simulation of the Transmission Line Matrix Modeling and cross-correlations from the input and output signals.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.336-342
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• 2017

최근 해양 자원 개발뿐만 아니라 지구 온난화에 따른 해양 환경 모니터링 및 해양 재난 대비 등을 위하여 수중 무선통신에 대한 연구가 요구되고 있다. 대부분의 수중 무선 통신에서는 수중에서의 매질 특성 및 환경 변화 특성을 고려하여 수십 KHz 대역의 음파를 이용하며, 특히 DSP를 비롯한 프로세서를 기반으로 하여 모뎀 연구가 진행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 수중 관측 및 제어를 위한 수중 음향 통신 시스템 중 수중기지제어국과 수중기지국 간의 음향 통신을 위한 Digital Up Converter(DUC)와 Digital Down Converter(DDC)를 연구하였다. 수중 음향 통신 시스템은 사용 환경의 제약 때문에 소형 및 저전력 시스템을 추구한다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 DUC 및 DDC 전용 하드웨어 모듈을 설계하였다. 수중 음향 통신 시스템의 4개의 링크를 지원하며, 각각 샘플링 레이트 및 주파수를 변환하였다. Verilog-HDL를 사용하여 설계하였으며, ModelSim 환경에서 수중 음향 통신 시스템의 베이스밴드 신호를 이용하여 동작을 검증하였다.