• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.41 no.6
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• pp.610-620
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• 2022

An acoustic vector sensor can simultaneously receive vector quantities, such as particle velocity and acceleration, as well as acoustic pressure at one location, and thus it can be used as a single input multiple output receiver in underwater acoustic communication systems. On the other hand, vector signals received by a single vector sensor have different channel characteristics due to the azimuth angle between the source and receiver and the difference in propagation angle of multipath in each component, producing different communication performances. In this paper, we propose a channel parameter-based weighting method to improve the performance of an acoustic communication system using a single vector sensor. To verify the proposed method, we used communication data collected from the experiment conducted during the KOREX-17 (Korea Reverberation Experiment). For communication demodulation, block-based time reversal technique which is robust against time-varying channels were utilized. Finally, the communication results showed that the effectiveness of the channel parameter-based weighting method for the underwater communication system using a single vector sensor was verified.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.107-111
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• 2009

Acoustic OFDM is used for audible frequency band acoustic communication which employs loudspeaker as transmitter and microphone as the receiver antenna. Since acoustic OFDM can transmit about 1 kbps using 1600 Hz band. acoustic OFDM signal is inserted into the audio signal like music or speech, However. audio quality deteriorates definitely during the inserting process. This paper introduces a reason for audio quality deterioration and discuss how to reduce this phenomenon.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.107-110
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• 2000

최근 이동전화의 사용이 급격히 확산됨에 따라 편이성과 안정성의 문제로 핸즈프리 전화통신의 필요성이 대두되고 있다. 핸즈프리 통신상황의 경우 근거리에 위치한 스피커와 마이크로폰의 커플링에 의해 발생하는 음향반향과 차량내에 존재하는 배경잡음에 의하여 통화 품질이 크게 저하되는 문제가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 차량내에서 핸즈프리 전화통신에 적합한 음향반향과 잡음제거 시스템을 제안하였다. 특히, 안정적인 음향반향제거 성능을 얻기 위하여 두 개의 평균 상호상관도를 이용한 동시통화검출 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 음향반향제거를 위해서는 NLMS 알고리즘에 의해 구동되는 제한된 차수의 적응반향제거기법을 사용하였으며, 잔여 반향 및 배경 잡음제거를 위해 IS-127 EVRC음성 부호화기의 잡음제거 방식을 사용하였다. 제안된 시스템은 16비트 고정소수점 DSP인 OAK DSP를 이용하여 약23.17MIPS의 연산량으로 실시간 구현되었다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.197-200
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• 1999

수중작업자 상호간이나 수중작업자와 수상요원간에는 수중작업의 효율 및 안전을 위한 통신 시스템이 필수적이다. 본 연구에서는 국외의 무선수중전화기 개발현황을 살펴보고 무선수중전화기 설계에서 고려해야 할 수중음향통신 환경 전기음향변환기 및 통신방식 등을 분석, 소개하고자 한다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.10 no.9
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• pp.979-986
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• 2015

Security solutions using fiber-optic cable have not yet secured a solid technical stability, through which the Acoustic detection security system also did not have a complete defense techniques such as false alarm and detecting fail due to a number of variables. In this paper, we investigate 4 characteristics for the channel of underwater acoustic communication. We also construct detection system as a construction method for security system using optical cable through the analysis of acoustic signal in underwater. We perform analysis of signal characteristics and noise of underwater optical cable, and then we confirms the possibility of real application.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.48-53
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• 2014

The underwater acoustic communication (UAC) is characterized by doubly spread channel. It is included in the time-variant doppler shift and delay-time spreads due to multiple paths. To compensate such distorted signals, various techniques including time-reversal processing, spatial diversity, phase estimator, and equalizer are being applied. In this paper, a spatial filter based on the beamforming is proposed as a method to mitigate such inter-symbol interferences that are generated in time-varying multipath channels. The proposed technique realizes coherent communications by steering the direction of the desired signals and improves the performance of UAC by increasing the signal-to-interference plus noise ratio using the array gain.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.27 no.7
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• pp.342-349
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• 2008

Multipath makes clear message transfer difficult in the underwater communication. To solve this problem, we propose a new method producing proper MFSP (Modulation Frequency Shift Period) which could be obtained by calculating time delay caused by different path from a transmitter to a receiver. At the transmitter end, messages were divided according to the size of the MFSP and transmitted accordingly alternating Frequency. At the receiver end, the received messages were demodulated in order to recover the original message by the adaptive BISMO algorithm which is constructed at the algorithm design stage. Adaptive MFSP and estimated BER (Bit Error Rate) were calculated through simulation test.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.26 no.7
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• pp.323-327
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• 2007

In this paper, objectively quantified consonance of complex sound is proposed as a new psychoacoustical parameter. Proposing algorithm quantifies consonance of complex sound after applying psycho acoustical models which are parts of human perception such as masking effect, equal loudness contour, and critical band. To verify proposing algorithm, experiments with 10 car horn signals which have different complex sound were performed. The experiments show cross correlation of 0.95 between objectively quantified consonance by proposing algorithm and subjectively assessed consonance by listening tests. Considering the fact that there are few psychoacoustical parameter except Zwicker parameter, proposing algorithm will help to quantify psychoacoustical effect of complex sounds objectively.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.405-411
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• 2020

Recently, studies on underwater communication, related to the development of underwater resources, disaster monitoring and defense, have been actively carried out. In the design of wireless communication systems, path loss is the most important information to derive a link budget that is required to guarantee communication reliability by calculating received power level for the given communication link. The underwater acoustic channel have different characteristics according to geographical location and relevant environmental factors such as water temperature, depth, wave height, algae, and turbidity. Subsequently, many research institutes aiming to develop underwater acoustic communication systems are researching actively on the underwater acoustic channels in various sea areas. In Korea, however, studies on the path loss of the acoustic channel are still insufficient. Therefore, in this study, the path loss of the acoustic channel are studied based on measurement data of the at-sea experiment conducted at Geohae-do, southern sea of Korea.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.10
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• pp.168-174
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• 2015

In this paper, we analyze the performance of cooperative communication techniques on an underwater channel. By analyzing the BER performance of cooperative transmission protocol and combining types ERC, FRC, SNRC and ESNRC on underwater channel, through the result, we can choose an a proper cooperative technique for an underwater channel. The analysis of BER performance is achieved by a computer simulation.