• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.1068-1072
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• 2018

In underwater communications, there are many challenges due to energy limitations, long propagation delay, low data rate, and high power loss, unlike terrestrial RF communications. Especially, the propagation delay of underwater acoustic channel is five orders of magnitude higher than in electro-magnetic terrestrial channels due to the low speed of sound(1,500m/s). Thus, the MAC protocols for terrestrial communications are not suitable for underwater network. In this paper, we studied the considerations for MAC protocol in underwater acoustic channel. Here, we concentrated on CSMA based MAC protocols. From the results, we confirmed that the number of control packets has an important effect on the performance in underwater environment. These results would be useful in designing MAC protocols for underwater acoustic communications.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.579-582
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• 2016

Recently, wireless communication system has been widely used in a variety of fields along with the remarkable advancement of communication technology. Sound communication system in underwater wireless communication is utilized in underwater communication since it has better transmission capacity than the existing RF. However, sound communication system has the problems such as low speed communication, transmission delay and limited bandwidth, and the studies have been actively conducted on the visible light communication underwater to improve these problems. Therefore, the visible light communication underwater using ASK modulation is suggested for the effective communication in this article.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.48 no.6
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• pp.97-108
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• 2011

Systems for underwater environment monitoring and natural resources can be considered as a part of digital convergence where real-time data transmission is possible with the help of underwater wireless sensor network (UWSN). One of key technologies required for the deployment of the systems is underwater acoustic micro modem. In this work, we design and implement an acoustic modem equipped with a commercial omnidirectional transducer. We also make experiments at the northern Han river for the verification of the developed modem. According to the experiments, the modem supports the working distance of 250 m and the data rate of 200 bps with a negligible bit error rate. It is expected that the acoustic modem can be used for various applications based on UWSN in a near future.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.177-183
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• 2015

The image information acquired by a model submarine is transmitted through the repeater. The control signal of a position for submarine and its speed is also controlled by the repeater. Shooting images of underwater circumstances are transmitted to the repeater where the received signal controls a position and speed of underwater submarine. This repeater is combined by a buoy that is floating on the surface to relay the signal of image as well as control between a control unit and a submarine whereas the repeater communicates wirelessly with a control unit. Due to wire communication between the repeater and the submarine, the underwater exploration can be smoothly carried out without a risk of loss of a model submarine. Also, connecting to the repeater and control unit wirelessly makes it possible to conduct easily the underwater exploration. The convergence technology that combines a wireless communication and a control as well as a model submarine is designed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06d
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• pp.153-156
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• 2007

최근 대두되고 있는 무선 센서네트워크는 지상뿐만 아니라 해양에서도 필요성이 점차 커지고 있다. 해양에서의 무선통신을 하기 위해서는 지상에서 사용하는 RF와 같이 높은 주파수를 사용할 수 없기 때문에 낮은 주파수 대역을 사용하여야 한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 낮은 주파수 대역을 사용하는 초음파를 센서노드에 장착하고 이들 센서 노드들의 통신 수행을 위하여 수중통신모듈을 설계 및 구현하였다. 그리고 실험을 통하여 텍스트 기반의 통신이 성공하였음을 확인할 수 있었다. 본 논문에서 구현된 수중통신 모듈은 추후 해양 센서네트워크 서비스를 위한 해양 센서노드 제작에 기반이 될 것이다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.997-1002
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• 2017

Underwater communication, which is used acoustic channel of 1500[m/s] speed being different of wireless electric wave in terrestrial communication, is sensitive on water temperature and salinity and also affected from 3D underwater space. 3D underwater communication is sensitive on propagation loss of acoustic wave and underwater noise with complexity of communication space. In this paper, transmission performance with consideration of these characteristics of 3D underwater communication environments is measured and analyzed on MANET operated on 3D underwater communication environments. Some underwater MANET operation conditions will be suggested. Computer simulation with underwater simulator based on NS-2 will be used for performance measure, performance parameter like as throughput, transmission delay, packet loss rate and consumed energy will be used in simulation for performance measure.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.4
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• pp.97-107
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• 2013

Underwater wireless communication systems can be useful for underwater environment observation, catastrophe prevention, ocean resources exploration, ocean organism research, vessel sinking exploration, and so on. However, unlike terrestrial wireless communication, underwater wireless communication should consider factors such as long propagation delay, limited transmission capacity, high bit-error rate due to potential loss in power, ambient noise, man-made noise, multi-path, etc., because of the inherent characteristics of water. Thus, in this paper, we propose a suitable media access control(MAC) protocol that applies a combination of the ALOHA MAC protocol and the CSMA/CA MAC protocol to underwater environment. We further propose a mathematical analysis model to evaluate performance. We also verify performance improvement in the proposed scheme in comparison with existing MAC protocols.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.109-114
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• 2013

In underwater wireless sensor networks, sensing data such temperature and salinity can be merged by averaging them. Data aggregation is a good choice to reduce the amount of packets and save energy in underwater wireless sensor networks. However, data aggregation could bring about packet delay and non-directional transmission to the sink. In this paper, we propose a new path building algorithm based on data aggregation to mitigate these problems. The paper reduces the delay without wireless interferences and maximizes the energy efficiency by removing the non-directional transmission to the sink. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms in terms of the energy efficiency and the packet delay.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.5 no.5
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• pp.509-515
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• 2010

Such as disaster rescue in deep water, undersea exploration and monitering for environmental pollution, many applications require the acoustic communication for high data rate over underwater acoustic channel. As underwater channel is very complex and is time-varying, conventional single carrier communication has good performance. In this paper, An adaptive OFDM system is analyzed for high data rate and reliability and rubust service over UWA channels. Through the adaptive system, we show threshold switching for an adaptive algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.231-234
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• 2008

The paper proposed the new underwater wireless communication system fitted to non-linear acoustic channel. Generally, in non-linear acoustic channel, one used to do acoustic communication using parametric effect that is some effect caused from acoustic wave having frequency different of two primary acoustic wave frequency. In the paper, Offset PSK communication method fitted to non-linear acoustic channel was proposed, and it was demonstrated through simulations.