• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.150-158
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• 2022

This paper presents the results of a sea trial for very long range spread spectrum underwater acoustic communication conducted in the East Sea in September 2021. Signals were collected through 8 vertical sensors, and the range between the transmitter and receiver was about 160 km. 30 bps Multi-Code Spread Spectrum (MCSS) method and 100 bps Chirp Spread Spectrum method were used for the transmitting signal generation. The results show that when the channel coding technique was not used in a single channel, the uncoded bit error rate was high, but when the Equal Gain Combining (EGC) diversity technique was used after frame synchronization in each receiving channel, the uncoded bit error rate was reduced to 0.1 or less.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.28 no.8
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• pp.714-722
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• 2009

This paper presents a new sound source externalization algorithm for increasing spaciousness and presence on earphone or headphone environments. To do this, we used modified head related transfer functions (M-HRTFs) and room impulse responses acquired by an acoustic simulation method. M-HRTFs developed by ETRI have less tone color distortion of original sound sources than traditional HRTFs. The acoustic simulation method is used to obtain more natural reflected sound. To verify the proposed externalization algorithm, we performed a listening test. From the test, the proposed algorithm is effective in externalizing the sound sources especially when they are on the left and right sides.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.389-394
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• 2016

MIMO (Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output) in underwater acoustic communication has distortion of received signal because of ISI (Inter-Symbol Interference) and crosstalk among transmitters. Time-reversal mirror was used for compensating of signal distortion, but it has a limit in eliminating crosstalk effectively. This paper proposes a time-reversal mirror based on GSC (Generalized Sidelobe Canceller) for removing crosstalk. The FAF05 (The Focused Acoustic Forecasting 05) experimental data has been used to verify the suggested method by comparison with the conventional time-reversal for communication performance, and it is demonstrated that the suggested method produces better communication performance results than conventional time-reversal.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.21-30
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• 2018

A passive time-reversal technique can improve error performance of the underwater communication system by reducing influence of inter-symbol interferences, which is caused by a multipath channel response. The passive time-reversal communication system equipped with numerous receivers generally can obtain superior error performance since larger diversity gain can be obtained as the number of available received signal increased. In this paper, we analyze the optimal number and combination of receivers that can approximately achieve the best error performance when using the limited number of receivers. For this analysis, we use communication data collected during SAVEX15 (Shallow-water Acoustic Variability Experiment 2015) carried out in the south-western part of Jeju Island from May 14 to May 28, 2015. Analysis results show that there are depths of energy concentration due to the channel characteristics in which the underwater sound channel are present, and the passive time-reversal technique using the limited number of the receivers can derive near-optimal communication performance if the receivers for time-reversal processing are located at the depths where energy is concentrated.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37C no.12
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• pp.1328-1336
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• 2012

Compared to terrestrial RF communications, underwater acoustic communications have several limitations such as limited bandwidth, high level of fading effects, and a large underwater propagation delay. In this paper, in order to tackle those limitations of underwater communications and to make it possible to form a large underwater monitoring systems, we propose a hierarchical underwater network architecture, which consists of underwater sensors, clusterheads, underwater/surface sink nodes, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). In the proposed architecture, for the maximization of packet delivery ratio and the minimization of underwater sensor's energy consumption, a hybrid routing protocol is used. More specifically, cluster members use Tree based routing to transmit sensing data to clusterheads. AUVs on optimal trajectory movements collect the aggregated data from clusterhead and finally forward the data to the sink node. Also, in order to minimize the maximum travel distance of AUVs, an Integer Linear Programming based algorithm is employed. Performance analysis through simulations shows that the proposed architecture can achieve a higher data delivery ratio and lower energy consumption than existing routing schemes such as gradient based routing and geographical forwarding. Start after striking space key 2 times.

• 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.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.86-97
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• 1998

본 논문은 스테레오 음향 반향 제거기에 적용되는 고속 Affine Projection 알고리듬 을 제안한다. 최근 스테레오 원격 회의 시스템은 보다 현실감 있는 원격 회의를 가능케 하 는 장점으로 인해 많은 관심을 끌고 있다. 그러나, 회의실의 원단화자와 마이크로폰사이의 상호교차(cross-coupling)로 인해 음향 반향이 발생하게 된다. 만약 이 반향 신호가 제거되 지 않은채 수신 룸으로 전달되면 결국 음성 통화 품질이 저하된다. 이를 방지하기 위하여 추정 반향 신호를 만들어 내고 통신 품질의 손실 없이 이 반향을 제거하는 음향 반향 제거 기가 필수적이다. 단 채널 음향 반향 제거기와 다르게 스테레오 환경하에서의 음향 반향 제 거기는 전송실의 환경변화로 인한 성능 저하와 각 반향 경로를 추정하기 위해 사용하는 각 적응 필터의 임펄스응답이 반향 경로와 일치하지 않는 등의 각종 문제점들이 발생하게 된 다. 본 논문에서는 서로 상관관계 없는 입력신호를 만들어내고 전송실의 환경변화로 인한 성능저하를 보완하기 위해 전처리단(pre-processing block)을 제안하여 일반적인 방법에 대 해 3-10dB정도의 향상된 성능을 보이며 적은 계산량으로 빠른 수렴성능을 갖는 새로운 형 태의 스테레오 음향 반향 제거기를 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.85-88
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• 2004

정보통신부에서는 2004년 10월 1일자로 통신서비스 역무로서 "인터넷 전화"를 고시하였다. 정부에서는 인터넷전화 역무를 허가하는 조건으로, 일정수준의 통신 품질을 만족하여야 하며, 시험에 합격한 신청자에 한해서 인터넷 전화의 착신번호를 부여할 것이다. 본 논문에서는 인터넷전화의 서비스 품질을 평가하기 위한 절차를 제시한다. 제시한 방법을 통하여, 국내의 인터넷 전화서비스의 품질확보 및 유지에 기여할 것으로 기대된다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.14-20
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• 1993

이 논문에서는 충격성 잡음과 비선택적 다중경로 페이딩 특성이 있는 매체에서 주파수 도약대역 확산 통신 계통의 성능을 살펴보았다. 충격성 잡음을 나타내는 데에는 ε 혼합모델을 썼고, 통신 매체와 계통의 여러 가지 매개 변수를 바꾸어 가며 이 통신 계통의 오류확률을 수치 계산 방식으로 얻었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.805-808
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• 2008

In this paper, it was performed the analysis on various intersection acoustic patterns for detection rate improvement of accident sound detection system : an acoustic pattern analysis on general traffic noise, an acoustic pattern analysis on engine noise, an acoustic pattern analysis on obstruct factors for accident sound detection system. There are remarkable differences between the acoustic patterns of traffic noise and accident sound, and we most consider the acoustic patterns when we compose the accident traffic detection system by acoustic because there is error range of 20[dB] according to the volume of traffic in intersection.