• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.53 no.5
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• pp.345-352
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• 2004

Currently, high data rate PLC(Power Line Communications), up to 100 Mbps, which use frequency bandwidth between 2 MHz and 30 MHz is investigated very hard, and commercial PLC modem for low voltage powerline network (indoor) is coming soon into communication market. For the purpose of developing a fit communication system which has little distortion of signal and attenuation, it is surely necessary to know about channel environments of powerline. Especially, the impedance measurement of the powerline and impedance matching are very important. As is known, since medium-voltage powerline (22.9 ㎸) is still working, it is not so simple to measure the powerline impedance. In our study, a portable impedance measurement equipment is developed. It consists of coupling capacitor, a drain coil and impedance matching transformer. The equipment is easily connected to medium voltage line and impedance of power line is measured using a network analyzer. Also, measurement results are used for impedance matching of PLC signal. In fact, matching transformer with several different impedances are used. The matching transformer is connected between coupling capacitor and signal port. In this paper, the developed portable impedance measurement equipment and impedance measurement results are presented. Also impedance matching technique using matching transformers will be explained. We showed the result of the improved performance by the impedance matching.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.11c
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• pp.280-283
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• 2001

Recently Many technologies of the Powerline communication are proposed these technologies used high carrier frequency for high speed and stability, but high carrier frequency is restricted by the low of electric wave. So we will propose electric monitoring system that used the commercial powerline communication modem, isn't restricted by the low. Our objects are, first, we compared the low in korea, EU(CENELEC), and USA(FCC). second, proposed a spec of the powerline communication modem. third, design that the electric monitoring system using commercial A/D converter control and manage the electric equipment.

• The Journal of Information Technology
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.25-33
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• 2005

This paper describe a method for measuring line impedance as a function of frequency for an energized powerline in normal operation. A small sinusoidal signal of a powerline communication utility frequency 30khz$\sim$1Mhz band is continuously injected into the line, and a implemented impedance analyzer calculates the indoor powerline channel impedance from the measured magnitude and phase of resulting voltage and current. The impedance measurement is executed over a range of frequencies to produce a wideband impedance versus frequency characteristic. Implemented impedance analyzer can analysis powerline communication environments measuring line impedance due to load caused in indoor. And measured analysis information through the database can use to evaluate performance of modem and to decide test environment standard.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TE
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.53-62
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• 2005

In this paper, we implement a 40kbps narrowband powerline communication modem which is able to high transfer rate than conventional powerline communication technology by using the chirp technique that is one of the spread spectrum techniques. A modem that implement in this paper used the CEBus standard and a symbol that the linear variable frequency signal of 100$\sim$380kHz is kept for 25us. Experimental results, we verified the possibility that communication technology with the Chirp technique can make transfer rate more than 40kbps at narrowband communication.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.211-213
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• 2000

This paper represent powerline communication system for data transmission. Powerline communication model is the Local Area Network which length is 250m in SKKU. Simulation is applied DS-CDMA. Convolutional coding, Viterbi decoding and Interleaver. Simulation result say that proposed system is superior performance and available in present.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.1831-1838
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• 2015

In this paper, a method of implementing a communication network in ship, which exploits a powerline-based legacy-line communication system (LLC), is presented. We develop an inductive coupling unit and a multi-interface device to connect a data communication terminal to the powerline. As a result of operation tests for the ship under working, the implemented LLC shows a transmission rate of at least 25.8 Mbps in the distance of 200 m away with 100% success rate. Thus, the system can be a useful alternative to implement a communication network in ship without additional channels. Being easy to be implemented and supporting various interfaces for data communication, the presented system will be very effective when a real-time monitoring system is launched in future digital ship.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.54 no.2
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• pp.116-123
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• 2005

Chirp spread spectrum method using both time and frequency component is fit to time varying channel such as powerline channel. The used chirp symbol based on the CEBus standard is the unit symbol which sweeps from 100kHz to 380kHz over a 25㎲. To evaluate the performance of between Chirp-SS and DSSS, we measured the bit error rate under Gaussian channel. Simulation result is shown that Chirp-SS has a about 3[dB] gain of SNR than DSSS. To verify the performance of implemented modem, it is made up the powerline channel environment. After adding several noises to it, we examined the receiving status of modem. The implemented modem is able to receive the signal over the powerline channel with having several noises and capacitive loads.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.154-154
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• 2018

Conventional inductive powerline communications typically use ferrite cores. However, since the recent nanocrystalline cores are expected to perform better, this paper aims to measure the performance of inductive couplers using nanocrystalline cores. To do this, we used inductive powerline communications to observe the communication range when increasing the number of cores from one to five. This experiment shows that we have the best communication performance when we connect 5 cores.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.257-263
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• 2006

With the ever increasing demand for data communication methods, powerline communication has become in interesting alternative method for data communication in home networking. For the purpose of home safety, several sensors will be installed at door, windows, gas alarm, etc. When considering home networking, the sensor data as well as other types of data should be supported in powerline communication. Usually the sensor data do not have priority over isochronous traffics (voice, video traffic), but in the case of urgent situation at home, the data of sensor being aware of the situation should be transmitted earlier than others. The objective in this paper is to develop a method for supporting an urgent data in home networking using powerline communication. We propose a modified algorithm of HomePlug 1.0 and show the results of computer simulation.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.07d
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• pp.2631-2633
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• 2001

This paper describes the implementation of CUG(closed user group) internet contents for high speed powerline communication subscriber network.