• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.10
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• pp.1873-1878
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• 2017

Recently, many researches have been conducted on the aviation industry to replace the wire harness cable between the avionics of the aircraft with the wireless network. In this paper, we present an Event-Based Simulator for Wireless Avionics Intra-Communications (ES-WAIC) that can verify core technologies of wireless networks and efficiently integrate different layers of the network. ES-WAIC is developed to enhance the readability between the real time control application developers of the higher layer and the network layer developers. Specifically, the practical implement relies on an event-based programming concept to increase portability and compatibility that can be applied to the realistic low-power wireless embedded networks. ES-WAIC implements the overall system layers including the wireless channel modeling of the 4.4GHz band, the physical layer, the medium access control, the network, and the application layer of wireless avionics intra-communications.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.41 no.12
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• pp.1933-1941
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• 2016

This paper compares the performance of wireless communication technologies to replace the wired networks by wireless networks on avionics intra-communication. Due to the drawbacks of wired network, such as complexity, weight, maintenance cost and scalability, it leads to the high data rate and network traffic demands of avionics systems. Therefore, in WAIC(Wireless Avionics Intra-Communications) system suggested by ITU(International Telecommunication Union), based on environment of avionics system and requirements of a wired network, wireless network structures are defined to solve the problems of wired networks. In this paper, we consider features, advantages and disadvantages of wireless communication technologies which can be used for wireless avionics network, and we propose suitable wireless communication technology candidates for wireless avionics networks in WAIC environments.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.7
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• pp.1243-1248
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• 2016

This paper investigated the channel link budget for Wireless Avionics Intra-Communication (WAIC) in 4.4GHz. The band 4.2~4.2GHz was allocated for the communication service among aeronautical applications in world radiocommunication conference (WRC). Wireless channels in aircraft was modelled by the combination of path loss, shadowing effect caused by obstacles, and fading caused by multipath signals. In addition, wireless channels in aircraft are categorized into 6 groups according to various locations of transmitter and receiver. We analyzed the channel link budget for the 6 channel groups in terms of maximum transmission distance and outage probability. Our analysis and intensive computer simulation results show that the propagation characteristics of group A, B, and F is superior to group C, D, E, and the propagation of group E is the most vulnerable. Also, these results can be utilized as basic reference for the channel analysis of intra-aircraft or similar environment.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.33 no.11
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• pp.50-57
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• 2016

본고에서는 차세대 항공시스템의 핵심요소 중 하나인 항공기내 무선통신 (WAIC: Wireless Avionics Intra-Communication) 시스템의 연구동향과 이를 군용기내 무선통신 시스템에서 응용하는 방안에 대해 알아본다. 먼저 항공기 내 유선 통신네트워크 기술 동향을 살펴본 뒤, 항공기내 무선통신 시스템에 사용할 수 있는 무선 표준 기술로써 IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, IEEE 802.15.4 등의 무선통신 기술을 소개한다. 이후 현재 논의되고 있는 항공기내 무선통신 시스템을 위한 주파수 대역과 트래픽 모델을 소개한다. 또한 현재 논의되고 있는 항공기내 무선통신 시스템을 군용으로 응용할 때 고려해야 하는 점을 소개한다.