• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.8A
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• pp.777-784
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• 2010

Recently, the necessity of underwater communication and demand for transmitting and receiving various data such as voice or high resolution image data are increasing as well. The performance of underwater acoustic communication system is influenced by characteristics of the underwater communication channels. Especially, ISI(inter symbol interference) occurs because of delay spread according to multi-path and communication performance is degraded. In this paper, we study the OFDM technique to overcome the delay spread in underwater channel and by using CP, we compensate for delay spread. But PAPR which OFDM system has problem is very high. Therefore, we use DFT-spread OFDM method to avoid nonlinear distortion by high PAPR and to improve efficiency of amplifier. DFT-spread OFDM technique obtains high PAPR reduction effect because of each parallel data loads to all subcarrier by DFT spread processing before IFFT. In this paper, we show performance about delay spread through OFDM system and verify method that DFT spread OFDM is more suitable than OFDM for underwater communication. And we analyze performance according to two subcarrier mapping methods(Interleaved, Localized). Through the simulation results, performance of DFT spread OFDM is better about 5~6dB at $10^{-4}$ than OFDM. When compared to BER according to subcarrier mapping, Interleaved method is better about 3.5dB at $10^{-4}$ than Localized method.

• 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.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.177-185
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose and evaluate a FDE combined with STBC transmission structure to cancellation of ISI in underwater acoustic communication. To achieve this purpose, underwater acoustic channels are modeled and the simulation results are presented. In case of STBC-FDE, the transmission rate is less about 4% than STBC-OFDM, but the SER performance is better than STBC-OFDM that is larger from 4.4% to 16.8% at the SNR of 15dB than STBC-OFDM.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.5571-5578
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• 2015

In this paper, we analyzed Alamouti based the MIMO-OFDM system in an underwater vertical communication channels. These in consideration both the transmission loss the multipath loss which is suitable for underwater environment are necessary method to improve the efficiency and communication performance in underwater communication. This paper is modeled in an environment that caused the error, considered each simulated the multi-path loss, transmission loss, the Doppler spread in order to implement a practical communication environment and simulated through the MIMO-OFDM system of Alamouti STBC method. The MIMO-OFDM system 2Tx-2Rx of Alamouti STBC scheme in underwater vertical communication system is obtained about 3~5 dB gain as compare with its 2Tx-1Rx scheme with reference $10^{-3}$ BER.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.30-38
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• 2019

In recent years, researches on various communication methods have been conducted, particularly on OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) and CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) methods, as the use of underwater communication increases. While OFDM is, in general, advantageous in that it is resistant to Doppler in the water and it enables a high-speed communication, CDMA is resistant to frequency selective fading in the water and it can reduce energy consumption. Therefore, in this paper, we performed experiments in the shallow water in Western Sea of Korea to analyze the performance of OFDM and CDMA communication systems in the underwater channel environment. The maximum delay spread and Doppler spread were drawn by using the data obtained from the real sea area in order to analyze the underwater channel environment characteristics of the shallow water in Western Sea of Korea. The communication performances of OFDM and CDMA are shown as coded BER (Bit Error Rate) according to the variation of the maximum delay spread and the Doppler spread, respectively. The result of the analysis show that the OFDM method has more resistant performances to the underwater channel environment changes than the CDMA method.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.191-198
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• 2017

In this paper, we compare the transmission performance of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) under long duration multipath channel environments. This paper generates underwater channels through Bellhop based on the underwater environmental data of the west sea. BER performance of CDMA and OFDM are analyzed through various underwater channels based on the channels. Computer simulations result show that CDMA has better performance than OFDM when multipath delay time of underwater channel is shorter than spreading factor (SF). However, OFDM has better BER performance than CDMA as multi-path delay time increases.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.85-88
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• 2008

수중에서는 매질과 채널의 특성으로 인해 가능한 최대 데이터 전송 속도는 지상통신에서의 데이터 전송 속도에 비해 매우 낮으며, 이를 어떻게 극복하느냐가 매우 중요하다. 특히 천해(shallow water)에서 다중경로(Multipath)로 인한 지연 확산은 심볼 사이의 ISI(Inter Symbol Interference)를 유발시켜 수중 통신 시스템의 성능을 더욱 떨어뜨린다. 본 논문에서는 수중 음향 채널에서 고속 데이터 전송을 위해 OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) 방식을 이용한 통신 시스템을 다룬다. 다중경로로 인한 심한 심볼간 간섭을 받는 수중 채널에서 고속 데이터 전송을 위해 OFDM 방식의 통신 시스템의 성능을 평가하였으며, 이를 위해 수중 채널 모델을 이용해 영상 데이타 전송 시뮬레이션을 수행하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.22-32
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• 2011

In this paper, we first analyze the differences of underwater acoustic (UWA) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems and conventional terrestrial OFDM system, and give a simple introduction of the backgrounds. By considering the real UWA channel environments, the measured channel data is used to generate the UWA channel model and calculate the relative parameters for underwater OFDM systems. Practical least square (LS) based channel estimation with linear interpolation are adopted to obtain the channel state information (CSI) at receiver side. As multi-input multi-output (MIMO) processing techniques, Alamouti code is implemented and evaluated to perform for space time block coding (STBC) and space frequency block coding (SFBC) for UWA OFDM systems with the MIMO configuration of $2{\times}1$, at the same time, $1{\times}2$ maximum ratio combining (MRC) is performed for the purpose of comparison. The simulation results show that, with perfect channel estimation, SFBC failed to work duo to the serious frequency selectivity of UWA channel environments. When the practical channel estimation is applied, in the case of STBC, the proposed 4-column pilot pattern gives better performance about 7dB than SISO system.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.139-146
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• 2018

Underwater acoustic communication can be applied to various area such as scientific, commercial and military survey using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles and Unmanned Underwater Vehicles. Underwater communication is studying very actively by advanced country like United States. But differ from wireless communication in the air, underwater acoustic communication has some difficult problems, ISI(Inter Symbol Interference) due to multipath and limit of transmission bandwidth due to slow propagation of sound wave. In this paper, SC-FDE and OFDM transmission system for the cancellation of ISI in conjunction with underwater acoustic channel modeling are applied to the underwater simulation of communication. The performance of these methods in the simulation guide to possibility of adopting in underwater acoustic communication algorithm. For this purpose, we compare SER performance of SC-FDE with that of OFDM for modelled underwater channel. Underwater channel is generated by Bellhop model. Simulation results show above 5dB SNR gain at 10-3 SER. And it demonstrate SC-FDE is efficient method for underwater acoustic communication.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.33 no.8
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• pp.63-70
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• 2016

본고에서는 최근 활발하게 연구되고 있는 수중 음향통신을 위한 물리계층 기술에 대하여 알아 본다. 수중음향통신은 지상의 전파를 이용한 무선 통신 기술과 달리 음파를 이용한다. 음파는 수중에서 약1500m/s로 매우 저속이고 시간에 따른 다중 경로와 해수면과 해저면에서의 반사가 발생한다. 또한 수온, 염분, 수압, 해류와 해저지형 등에 의해 신호의 왜곡 및 손실이 일어나기 때문에 수중음향통신은 지상에서 전파를 이용한 통신에 비하여 매우 어려운 일이다. 본고에서는 이러한 수중음향채널의 특성을 살펴보고 링크버짓 계산을 한다. 그리고 수중음향통신을 위한 물리계층 변조기법을 살펴본다. 특히 OFDM 변조기법에 대하여 자세히 설명하고 실해역 측정을 통한 수중채널 특성을 기반으로 채널을 모델링하고 OFDM 변조기법을 위한 파라미터 선정 및 성능비교를 하였다.