• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39C no.11
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• pp.1185-1191
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• 2014

An integrated ship area network has functionality of remote control and autonomous management of various sensors and instruments embedded or boarded in a ship. For such environment, a wireless bridge is essential to transmit control and/or managing information to sensors or instruments from a central integrated ship area network station. In this paper, one of reliable schemes of In-ship sensor networks using a Grid-based WPAN is proposed. The proposed scheme is based on a novel grid network which allows a multi-path communication, and is robust, energy efficient. The results demonstrate that the proposed Grid-based WPAN outperforms the IEEE 802.15.4 based network in terms of success ratio and power efficiency.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.40 no.5
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• pp.964-973
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• 2015

Ship Area Network(SAN) can monitor the status of ship in real time and minimize the maintenance costs by connecting various devices to the network. In particular, among researches on SAN, Wireless Sensor Network using sensor nodes that is low-cost, low-power, and multifunctional has a number of advantages. In this paper, we propose cluster-based multi-channel algorithm considering the energy efficiency in wireless sensor network in a ship. The proposed algorithm shows the result of improvement of throughput and energy efficiency, because it reduces interference between clusters by using channel allocation algorithm that is distributed and dynamic.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2014.06a
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• pp.144-145
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• 2014

IoT (Internet of Things) is connected to all things Internet-based people and things, things and objects that communicate information between said intelligent technologies and services. Shipping each of a variety of devices that act independently from each other, but, it is actively interlock with each other is not easy practically days. Ship it within the means of communication, the communication between the ship, the communication between ship and shore configuration, SAN (Ship Area Network), RFID/USN, broadband communications, satellite communications and IT technology to a variety of marine environments for the safe navigation the ship's safety management system for the configuration you want to discuss the plan.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.9A
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• pp.712-718
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• 2009

This paper proposes the optimal transmission parameter selection method for an energy efficient Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) system which is applicable to the Maritime Telematics targeting for various ship models. Since the transmission parameter selection is an important factor for WPAN system to decide its energy efficiency, we propose an energy consumption model for ship area network (SAN) employing IEEE 802.15.3 based TDMA HR-WPAN model and analyzes the effect of transmission parameter selection on the performance of energy consumption. In particular, the main performance decision parameter of the SAN applying HR-WPAN is path loss, since it is very varied according to the material of shipbuilding such as steel (large ship), FRP (medium size ship) and compound wood (small ship). Thus, we analyzed and demonstrated that the proper transmission parameter selection among transmit power, PHY data rate and fragment size for each ship model guarantee the energy efficiency.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.10A
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• pp.769-775
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• 2009

This paper proposes the optimal transmission parameter selection method for an energy efficient Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) system which is applicable to the Maritime Telematics targeting for various ship models. Since the transmission parameter selection is an important factor for WPAN system to decide its energy efficiency, we propose an energy consumption model for ship area network (SAN) employing IEEE 802.15.3 based TDMA HR-WPAN model and analyzes the effect of transmission parameter selection on the performance of energy consumption. In particular, the main performance decision parameter of the SAN applying HR-WPAN is path loss, since it is very varied according to the material of shipbuilding such as steel (large ship), FRP (medium size ship) and compound wood (small ship). Thus, we analyzed and demonstrated that the proper transmission parameter selection among transmit power, PHY data rate and fragment size for each ship model guarantee the energy efficiency.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.687-696
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• 2014

An integrated ship area network has functionality of remote control and autonomous management of various sensors and instruments embedded or boarded in a ship. For such environment, an wireless bridge is essential to transmit control and/or managing information to sensors or instruments from a central integrated ship area network station. In this paper, one of reliable schemes of WiMedia based wireless bridge using relay cooperative transmission using WiMedia distributed MAC protocol is proposed to increase a communication reliability between cluster headers, irrespective of channel variation. Simulation results show that the proposed wireless bridge using relay cooperative transmission scheme increases communication reliability.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.53-63
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• 2016

This paper applies WiMedia UWB network into a wireless ship area network (WSAN) so as to support high-quality multimedia services on board and reliable instrument control information as well, since the need for mixed high-quality video traffic and shipboard control data traffic is essential for a high-cost valued digital ship. Thus, in this paper, prioritized contention access (PCA) and distributed reservation protocol (DRP) based on WiMedia UWB (ECMA-368) MAC protocols are combined and proposed to such mixed traffic environment, by varying the portions of superframe according to traffic type. It is shown that the proposed WiMedia UWB MAC protocol can provide reliable mixed video and shipboard control data traffic as well.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.1132-1135
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• 2009

최근 지능형 선박(Smart Ship)에 탑재되는 정보화 장비의 종류 및 수량이 증가하고 있는 조선 산업계 동향에도 불구하고, 이들 장비를 효율적으로 통합하고 제어할 수 있는 선박의 백본 네트워크에 대한 연구는 미흡한 실정이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 지능형 선박의 특수성을 고려한 백본 네트워크로, 네트워크 생존성과 트래픽 효율성 측면에서 최적 성능을 나타내는 선박 통신시스템(SAN : Ship Area Network)을 설계하고자 한다. 이를 위해 지능형 선박에 설치되는 이중화 네트워크 토폴로지 및 이를 효율적으로 운용하는 통신 프로토콜에 대한 연구를 수행하였다. 또한 제안한 선박 통신 시스템의 최적 성능을 그래프 이론, 시뮬레이션, 그리고 구현 명세 등을 포함한 체계적이고 실증적인 분석을 통해 검증하였다.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.292-297
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• 2015

In this paper, we reported the bypass unit for ship area networks in order to detour the communication failure regions and poor communication links. The device was composed of three parts of circuits for power cut-off, protection, and coupling transformer. Since the coupling transformer exerts a dominant influence on the performance of the by-pass unit, we have tried to find the optimal magnetic core materials and its dimensions. The prototype was passed through the performance test of insertion loss, temperature, and vibration characteristics. The insertion loss was around -2 dB in the range of 90 kHz ~ 30 MHz and the average communication speed was 59.2 Mbps in the laboratory. A pilot communication test using the developed tool was conducted in the training ship of the Korea Maritime and Ocean University. As a results of experiment, we showed that the wired communication among the heterogeneous-links in the ship area networks are possible by the bypass unit and also a high speed communication services are available in ~ Mbps by using a power-line.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39C no.11
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• pp.1177-1184
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• 2014

An wired ship area network has functionality of remote control and autonomous management of various sensors and instruments embedded or boarded in a ship. For such environment, the DiffServ (Differentiated Services) realizes that the high-speed real-time flow with the higher priority has the guaranteed minimum data rate and is delivered faster. As a result of this DiffServ effect, the intelligent Ship Area Networks can be implemented. In this paper, an packet drop technique is proposed to outperform the previous RIO (RED In and Out) drop mechanism for DiffServ in ship area networks. the proposed packet drop technique does not manage the individual flows and divides them into several flow groups according to a criterion. And it guarantees the fairness between individual flows in the same QoS class through the group-based control. In simulation results of the proposed packet drop technique, the link utilization decreases than RIO. But it guarantees more data rates to DiffServ flows passing multiple bottleneck links.