• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2021.11a
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• pp.112-113
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• 2021

선박을 주로 하는 자율 해상 모빌리티의 안전한 운항을 위해 필수적인 직접통신의 필요성에 대응하여 M-S2X 통신 개발 방안을 제시한다. M-S2X 통신을 선박중심 직접통신, SCDC(Ship Centric Direct Communication)으로 정의하며 선박과 선박 통신 중에서 선박과 선박 통신의 대용량 및 고속화가 필요한 점, 그리고 선박 운항 안전을 위한 통신 수요의 대부분이 선박을 중심으로 그 주변 객체와 상호 통신이 필요한 점을 고려한 것이다. 관련 연구에서 선박과 선박, 선박과 육상 간 통신 소요를 제시하였고 이를 통해 기존 AIS등의 레거시 해상통신만으로는 자율운항선박과 같은 해양 모빌리티의 자율성 확보에 어려움이 있음을 알 수 있다. 이에 따라 M-S2X 통신을 구현하는 기술로 VDE와 비면허대역과 같은 고대역의 통신기술을 활용하여 선박과 같은 해양 모빌리티가 주변의 객체(선박, 해양모빌리티, 인프라, 익수자 등)와 직접 통신할 수 있는 통신 인프라 환경을 제공한다면 향후 도래할 해양 모빌리티 환경의 기본 통신 기술로 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.45 no.6
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• pp.352-359
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• 2021

This paper presents the definition and importance of ship-centric direct communication concerning ship safety of maritime autonomous and unmanned ships. It also proposes the concept of MX-S2X communication based on high frequency for wide-bandwidth technology and describes the design and simulation result for the physical layer of MX-S2X. It considered high-speed communication as well as overcoming maritime multi-path fading required to be resolved in the marine environment. The physical layer of MX-S2X communication was designed to overcome the occurrence of error-floor caused by multi-path fading even with receiving sufficient signal strength. To this purpose, a performance analysis was conducted on the physical layer by applying the channel model of the actual maritime communication environment. As a result of the performance analysis of the MX-S2X physical layer, it was confirmed that the BER error-floor observed in the VDE physical layer test was overcome, and it operated within the SNR 2dB degradation range compared to the AWGN channel. It is expected that this will show enough performance suitable for short-distance ship-centered direct communication and can be used for direct communication of maritime autonomous ships, unmanned ships, and group navigation of themshortly.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.46 no.6
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• pp.570-575
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• 2022

The MX-S2X, utilizing high-frequency broadband communication technology, provides a reliable connection between land, ship, and facilities. This technology is expected to be effectively utilized as a future maritime communication infrastructure in the upcoming mixed navigational situation among autonomous and manned and/or unmanned ships. Following the physical layer design and M&S-based performance analysis of the MX-S2X system to overcome maritime multipath fading, this paper confirms the optimized and detailed design of physical layer hardware and implemented it to verify the performance. The PER(Packet Error Rate) performance was then measured by configuring a test environment to verify the implemented hardware. The results showed that the performance degradation was 0.2 dB in the AWGN environment and 1.2 dB in the Multi-path Fading on Sea Environment, thus confirming the successful implementation of the physical layer.