• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.522-531
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• 2010

Appropriate networks are required for the processing of various kinds of data generated on shipboard. The international standards, NMEA 2000 and IEC 61161-4, meet this requirement. NMEA 2000 is good for the processing of real time data, and IEC 61162-4 is better for the integrated management of such data. Therefore, NMEA 2000 data should be conversed into IEC 61162-4 format for the integrated management. This paper presents files and algorithm for the format conversion, and also describes their implementation.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.351-359
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a transmission algorithm of the TLI protocol of the IEC 61162-4 standard to perform the e-Navigation on ship, and we design and implement the TLI protocol according to the proposed algorithm. The implemented protocol is a TCP/IP based protocol, and is a network protocol with the MAU and LNA components proposed in the IEC 61162-4 standard. In addition, it makes a data transmission over the network architecture based on client/server network model. In the implemented protocol, there are a communication between the MAU and the LNA in one host, and also a communication between the LNA and the LNA in each other hosts. In order to provide a variety of service in a host, every client host has a LNA and multiple MAUs. According to the standard specification and the proposed transmission algorithm, we designed and implemented the TLI protocol using object-oriented mechanism. We carried out the experiment under a simple network model similar to real ship environment, and confirmed that it successfully transmits and receives data between the hosts.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.34 no.8
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• pp.1180-1187
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• 2010

In these days, data processing rate is increasing on shipboard. To solve the problems on the rate, Ethernet based IEC 61162-4 series standard established for integrated information management. But the standard is difficult to implement, so it is changed into Light-weight Ethernet standard. In this paper, we analyze the existing standard and compare it with Light-weight Ethernet standard. As a result, we draw its service requirements. Also we propose the services, and design and implement the service modules.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.40 no.10
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• pp.906-915
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• 2016

In this study, a network monitoring system, including a secure 460-Network and a 460-Gateway, is designed and developed according with the requirements of the IEC (International Electro-Technical Commission) 61162-460 network standard for the safety and security of networks on board ships. At present, internal or external unauthorized access to or malicious attack on a ship's on board systems are possible threats to the safe operation of a ship's network. To secure the ship's network, a 460-Network was designed and implemented by using a 460-Switch, 460-Nodes, and a 460-Gateway that contains firewalls and a DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) with various application servers. In addition, a 460-firewall was used to block all traffic from unauthorized networks. 460-NMS (Network Monitoring System) is a network-monitoring software application that was developed by using an simple network management protocol (SNMP) SharpNet library with the .Net 4.5 framework and a backhand SQLite database management system, which is used to manage network information. 460-NMS receives network information from a 460-Switch by utilizing SNMP, SNMP Trap, and Syslog. 460-NMS monitors the 460-Network load, traffic flow, current network status, network failure, and unknown devices connected to the network. It notifies the network administrator via alarms, notifications, or warnings in case any network problem occurs. Once developed, 460-NMS was tested both in a laboratory environment and for a real ship network that had been installed by the manufacturer and was confirmed to comply with the IEC 61162-460 requirements. Network safety and security issues onboard ships could be solved by designing a secure 460-Network along with a 460-Gateway and by constantly monitoring the 460-Network according to the requirements of the IEC 61162-460 network standard.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.701-712
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• 2012

The concept of $k$-shortest disjoint paths is considered important because the establishment of primary and backup forwarding paths exploiting shorter distance and faster propagation time is a dominant consideration for the design of a survivable backbone network. Therefore, we need to evaluate how well the concept of $k$-shortest disjoint paths is exploited for the design of a survivable ship backbone network considering the international standard related to ship backbone networks, the IEC61162-410 standard specifying how to manage redundant message transmissions among ship devices. Performance evaluations are conducted in terms of following objective goals: link capacity, hop and distance of primary and backup paths, even distribution of traffic flows, restoration time of backup forwarding paths, and physical network topology connectivity.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.141-146
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• 2010

In this paper, we design and implement middleware service modules of MiTS system architecture which is proposed for integrated shipboard information management. The MiTS system is divided to three layers that are gateway, middleware server and application. The gateway collects and parses information and data, the middleware server integrates the data and stores to a database, and the application displays visual data to users. The service modules provide MiTS middleware services to gateways and applications. We implement the service modules based on international standard IEC61162-4 series and test those.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.34 no.8
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• pp.1188-1194
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• 2010

On shipboard, several kinds of data are generated from many equipments. Although these data are mainly used for the safe navigation of ship, their usability may be enhanced if they are managed on a database. However, because these data have different formats according to the kinds of equipments, an integrated database is required. This paper presents a design and implementation of such database.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.360-368
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• 2010

MiTS communication is a protocol for the exchange of various information among shipboard systems. It also specifies more than 30 specialized message formats for the information exchange. To build MiTS systems, therefore, the messages should be processed consistently. This paper proposes the design and implementation of such message processing modules. It also describes the test results of the implemented modules.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.278-287
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• 2011

NMEA 2000 protocol known as IEC 61162-3 of Multi-talker, Multi-listener and Plug and Play network communication has been adopted as standard network for SOLAS(Safety of Life at Sea) ship by IMO. This paper focuses on the implementation of FPGA and MicroBlaze for NMEA 2000 based gateway, which is able to convert NMEA 2000 protocol into various types of network protocol such as Ethernet, UART and USB using Vertex4-based ML401 board. Each communication module and the stack of NMEA 2000 are mounted on FPGA. To be able to receive each communication data, ML401 board is configured to handle required communication speed. PC based NMEA 2000 monitoring program is developed to verify that data on different networks are correctly converted each other in real time.