• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2009.06a
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• pp.19-20
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• 2009

International Maritime Organization(IMO) recommends the installation of an Automatic Identification System(AIS) according to requirements by SOLAS Chapter 5 to avoid maritime collision. AIS provides traffic information of other ships that may be used for maritime traffic control, SAR(Search and Rescue) and collision avoidance to apply safety management. In this paper, preliminary results to implement an aeronautical surveillance transceiver using AIS transceiver based on ADS-B concepts are described. Although altitude information is not required for AIS since the AIS is operated at MSL(Mean Sea Level), altitude information can be extracted by a GPS chip-set in the ALS transceiver. ADS-B transceiver is implemented by defining a surveillance message format including the altitude information and modifying SOTDMA protocol. Ground tests and flight tests are performed to validate the implementation results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2013.06a
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• pp.351-353
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• 2013

AIS는 자체적으로 슬롯간 간섭을 방지할 수 있도록 하는 SOTDMA 통신 프로토콜을 주로 사용하여 데이터를 송수신하고 있다. 그러나 통신권이 서로 다를 경우 AIS 셀 간의 통신상태 정보를 공유하지 못하여 슬롯간 간섭이 야기될 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 AIS 데이터 수신현황을 분석하여 VTS 육상국에서 발생하고 있는 문제점을 제시하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.430-432
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• 2013

AIS(Automatic Identification System) is a radionavigation equipment for exchanging safety related information between ships as well as ship and shore station, introduced by SOLAS convention and widely used especially in vessel traffic service. However, in an area of broad communication coverage of coast station, various problems may appear in receiving AIS data from ships. In this paper, AIS problems that may happen in broad communication coverage of coast station are analyzed using received data.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2011.06a
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• pp.126-128
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• 2011

AIS가 도입된 이후 선박확인절차에 필요한 VHF교신량 감소, Ship to Ship, Ship to VTS간 안전통신의 기회증대와 RADAR에서 발생하는 Swap(물표바뀜)현상 감소 등 자동으로 선박정보를 수신함으로써 VTS구역의 전체적인 통항이미지를 관제사가 쉽게 그릴 수 있어 보다 안전한 관제업무를 수행하는데 기여하고 있다. 하지만 AIS탑재선박의 증가로 AIS기지국/선박국 통신환경에 따른 채널간섭과 AIS신호의 ERROR(오류) 정보 등이 관제업무를 더욱 위험한 상황으로 만드는 경우들이 발생하고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 관제업무를 수행함에 있어서 경험하였던 AIS ERROR 정보로 인한 위험했던 상황들을 분석하여 다른 관제사가 업무 수행시 합리적인 판단을 내릴 수 있도록 AIS특성 및 개선방안을 제시하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.19-25
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• 2001

At present the identification of vessels is still depending on the OOW (Officer Of Wateh) in VTS (Vessel Traffic Service), which is completed by radar, and also by the combination of VHF radio and VHF direction finder. However, with the development of port transportation and economic, this conventional way of identification can't satisfy more and more request for the information that the VTS needs from the vessels. In such a case, the AIS(Automatic Identification System) precept which is based on STDMA (Self-organized Time Division Multiple Access) technique is put forward by IMO (International Maritime Organization). AIS can automatically provide the information, including own ship's identification, type, position, course, speed, and other information to the appropriately equipped coast station and other ships. At the same time it can also automatically monitor and track the nearby ships similarly fitted with AIS. On the basis of describing the whole comprising and the format of transmission information of AIS, this paper mainly studies the key communication techniques in AIS, such as STDMA protocol, net synchronization and GMSK(Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying)technique, and so on. At last this paper briefly introduces the recommendation decided by IMO on forcing the sea-going ships to fixed with AIS equipments, and it continuos with the unexploited potential of AIS if it applies in VTS.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.511-527
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• 2024

This paper proposes a block-based self-organizing time-division multiple access (BSO-TDMA) protocol for very high frequency (VHF) data exchange system (VDES) in shipborne ad-hoc networks (SANETs). The BSO-TDMA reduces the collisions caused by the simultaneous transmission of automatic identification system (AIS) messages by uniformly allocating channel resources using a block-wise frame. For this purpose, the BSO-TDMA includes two functional operations: (1) frame configuration and (2) slot allocation. The first operation consists of block division and block selection. A frame is divided into multiple blocks, each consisting of fixed-size subblocks, by using the reporting interval (RI) of the ship. Then, the ship selects one of the subblocks within a block by considering the number of occupied slots for each subblock. The second operation allocates the slots within the selected subblock for transmitting AIS messages. First, one of the unoccupied slots within the selected subblock is allocated for the periodic transmission of position reports. Next, to transmit various types of AIS messages, an unoccupied slot is randomly selected from candidate slots located around the previously allocated slot. Experimental simulations are conducted to evaluate the performance of BSO-TDMA. The results show that BSO-TDMA has better performance than that of the existing SOTDMA.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.5B
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• pp.530-538
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• 2011

In this paper, the feasibility of LEO(low earth orbit) satellite-based automatic identification system (SAT-AIS) for the coastal area of the South Korea is evaluated in the context of ship AIS transmission detection probability. We evaluate and compare AIS signal detection probability of ORBCOMM satellites and LEO-one satellites considering link budget, SOTDMA protocol and satellite's swath width. The simulation determines the total number of vessels served by those satellites according to satellite's swath width and thus, By simulation results, the ORBCOMM SAT-AIS system outperforms LEO-one SAT-AIS system. The suggested ORBCOMM based SAT-AIS system can be a solution to resolve the existing limited transmission distance problem of the conventional ship-to-shore AIS system.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.7B
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• pp.868-877
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• 2011

In this paper, the feasibility of ORBCOMM satellite-based automatic identification system (SAT-AIS) is evaluated in the context of ship AIS slot collision probability depending on reporting rate, We evaluate detection probability evaluation of ORBCOMM satellite-based AIS considering link budget, SOTDMA protocol and satellite's swath width. The simulation determines the total number of vessels served by ORBCOMM satellite according to satellite's swath width, AIS slot allocation and reporting rate. By simulation results, the ORBCOMM satellite-based AIS slot collision is increased directly proportional to the total number of vessels and the more detection probability evaluation of ORBCOMM satellite-based AIS degrader, the more sip AIS reporting rate shorter.