• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.521-528
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• 2008

Such conventional maritime communication technologies as radio have short some comings in their transmission quality. It can be overcome by wireless channels provided by satellites such as INMARSAT, which nevertheless suffer from the high costs. In this paper, we propose a novel technology resolving the above problems, featuring in the establishment of maritime communication networks with multi-hop structures. The inter vessel and ship-to- shore networks previously modeled after MANET are remodeled by SANET (Ship Ad Hoc Networks) in the present work. Fan-shaped Search Zone Routing (FSR) protocol also is presented, which utilizes not only static geographical information including the locations of ports and the navigations of courses but also the unique characteristics of ships in terms of mobile nodes. The FSR finds the fan-shaped search zone on which the shortest path is located. The performance of LAR protocol is compared with that of FSR in several ways. First, FSR does not make use of a type of control packets as beaconing data, resulting in a full utilization of the bandwidth of the wireless channels. Second, the delivery rate by the FSR is 100% for the fan-shaped search zone includes at least one route between source and destination nodes on its border line, where as that of LAR has been turned out to be 64%. Third, the optimality of routes searched by the FSR is on a 97% level. Of all, the FSR shows a better performance than LAR by about 50%.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.526-529
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• 2007

무선센서네트워크 환경에서 활용될 수 잇는 대표적인 계층적 라우팅 프로토콜로는 Zigbee(지그비) 계층구조 라우팅과 IETF의 6LoWPAN WG에 드래프트로 제출되었던 HiLow 프로토콜 등이 있다. 이들 계층구조 라우팅 프로토콜은 깊이 우선(Depth-first) 방식과 폭 우선(Width-first) 방식을 각각 사용하여 자동 주소 할당을 수행한 후 이를 이용해 계층적 경로 배정이 되도록 한다. 이에 따라 망상의 노드들이 물리적으로 가까운 위치에 존재하더라도 경로는 계층적으로 제공되어 데이터 전달에 많은 흡 수가 소요된다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 경로 배정 시 발생되는 비효율성을 개선하고 싱크(Sink) 주위 노드의 에너지 소모율을 줄일 수 있는 경로 배정 알고리즘을 제안한다.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.667-674
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• 2011

Data networks at sea will be overlapped networks with not only traditional carriers such as RF, satellites but also BWA like wireless LAN, WiBro, and WCDMA in near future. In this paper, an overlapped MANET model for data networks at sea, and a routing protocol (OMH-MW) selecting optimal transmission medium for each hop in routes are proposed. OMH-MW measures the optimality of each medium regarding the transmission characteristics of each application and those of the medium in together. The most suitable medium to each link is selected as the link in routes. Performances are compared with those of the MWR (Max-Win based Routing protocol searching optimal routes with only one medium).

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.469-472
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• 2008

Hierarchical routing in Wireless Sensor Network lowers the amount of a memory used and energy consumption so that the network lifetime longer. But, When Node Failure is occurred, Hierarchical routing do not look for another route. This is the problem of Hierarchical routing. To solve the problem, we would study other hierarchical routings. There are typically hierarchical routing protocols which can be used in WSN, such as the hierarchical routing of Zigbee and HiLow protocol which is submitted as draft to IETF 6LoWPAN WG. Also, there is SCRO algorithm which be able to assign short-cut routing path. This paper explains how to solve the Node Failure in each Zigbee hierarchical routing and HiLow protocol. And we suggest how to solve the Node Failure in SCRO protocol. SCRO protocol is able to assign new routing path rapidly when Node Failure is occurred. Because the strong of SCRO protocol is to assign Short-cut routing path.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.405-411
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose routing protocol for mobile wireless sensor networks with a mobile sink in cluster configuration. The proposed protocol extends LEACH-ME by introducing a mobile sink. The mobile sink moves to the cluster head with the highest number of member nodes to collect sensed data from cluster heads within its vicinity, which results in reducing energy consumption in forwarding packets to the sink. The simulation results show that the proposed protocol outperform LEACH-ME in terms of energy efficiency.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.34 no.8
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• pp.1159-1164
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• 2010

The current maritime data communications mainly depend on radio and satellite which have restrictions on data rate and cost. That leads to needs of novel relatively-high-speed data communication systems at sea just like on land. This paper proposes a routing protocol (MWR) for newly designed model of ship-to-ship communication networks at sea. The MWR protocol finds out an optimal route by selecting an optimal network for each specific application from overlapped networks of available wireless media at sea.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Marine Engineers Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.206-207
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• 2005

해상에서 인터넷을 사용하는 데 많은 기술적, 경제적 제약이 따른다. 육상의 인터넷 서비스를 바다 위에서 실현하기 위해서는 기지국과 같은 중앙 통제 시스템이 없는 MANET을 기반으로 하는 해상통신망이 새롭게 구축되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 해상환경과 선박 내 단말장치의 특성을 최대한 고려한 해상 MANET 모델을 새롭게 설계하였다. 원양에서 선박들이 주로 주어진 항로를 기준으로 항해하는 특성을 고려하여, 개별적 이동노드(선박)를 대상으로 경로를 찾는 것이 아니라 정적 정보인 항로와 동적 정보인 선박을 복합적으로 활용하여 최단경로를 찾아내는 복합적 항로기반 라우팅(HCBR) 프로토콜을 제안하였다. 지리 정보를 이용하는 LAR 프로토콜과 성능 비교에서 경로 발견 시 제어패킷을 전혀 쓰지 않으면서 최단 경로를 훨씬 더 잘 찾아내는 특성을 실험적으로 파악하였다.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.1033-1043
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• 1998

In this paper, we present an improved multicasting path assignment algorithm based on the minimum cost spanning tree. In the method presented in this paper, a multicasting path is assigned preferentially when a node to be received is found among the next degree nodes of the searching node in the multicasting path assignment of the constrained steiner tree (CST). If nodes of the legacy group exist between nodes of the new group, a new path among the nodes of new group is assigned as long as the nodes may be excluded from the new multicasting path assignment taking into consideration characteristics of nodes in the legacy group. In assigning the multicasting path additionally, where the source and destination nodes which can be set for the new multicasting path exist in the domain of identical network (local area network) and conditions for degree constraint are satisfied, a method of producing and assigning a new multicasting path is used. The results of comparison of CST with MCSTOP, MCSTOp algorithm enhanced performance capabilities about the communication cost, the propagation delay, and the computation time for the multicasting assignment paths more than CST algorithm. Further to this, research activities need study for the application of the international standard protocol(multicasting path assignment technology in the multipoint communication service (MCS) of the ITU-T T.120).

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.35 no.8
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• pp.1098-1104
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• 2011

Data communications networks at sea can be modelled by multi-layered networks with traditional carriers (RF, satellites), and BWA (wireless LAN, WiBro, LTE), which partially makes it possible the high speed communication services (WWW, VoIP) at sea. In this paper, a novel routing scheme (CPR) is proposed which selects an optimal carrier for each hop in routes based on carrier preferences (CP). The carrier preferences are measured proactively depending on the feasibility of transmission characteristics (transmission rate, cost, and latency time) of the carriers for each application. Performance was compared with that of the OMH-MW (Optimal Medium per Hop based on Max-Win) routing scheme.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.32 no.8
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• pp.1269-1277
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• 2008

Ships at sea cannot exchange data among them easily so far. Basically voice-oriented communication systems are the main methods, some of them utilize the HF radio systems at lower bit rates, and for higher bit rates, the Inmarsat or VSAT are adopted. None of them are used widely because of lower qualities and higher costs. There exist many technical and economical limits to have the Internet service just like on land such as the WWW service. In order to achieve the improved transmission rates of the maritime communication networks at farther sea, MANET(Mobile Ad Hoc Network) is one of the most practical models. In this paper, a new routing protocol named EZR (Expansive Search Zone Routing Protocol) is proposed, which is based on SANET (Ship Ad Hoc Network) model that has some different features from MANET and VANET (Vehicular Ad Hoc Network). The search zone for the shortest path is firstly found by EZR. If no path is searched in the zone, the zone is expanded according to the rule of EZR. The zone-expanding and path-searching procedures are repeated until the path is found out. The performance of EZR is evaluated and compared with LAR protocol which is one of the most typical routing protocols based on geographical information. The simulated results show that EZR is much better than LAR at sea environments in terms of routing success rate, route optimality, and a single index of performance combined the previous two metrics.