• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.853-858
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• 2022

In this paper, we show a simultaneous transmission of underwater optical wireless power transfer and underwater optical wireless communication. A laser diode is used for electric-to-optic conversion at the transmitter and a solar cell is used for optic-to-electric conversion at the receiver. We optimized the transmitter and receiver for the best performance. The laser diode is a 100-mW laser diode and showed a conversion efficiency of 18.5%. The experimental results showed a 0.33-% DC-to-DC underwater power transfer efficiency at 5 m and a data rate of 100 kbps at 1 m.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.997-1002
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• 2017

Underwater communication, which is used acoustic channel of 1500[m/s] speed being different of wireless electric wave in terrestrial communication, is sensitive on water temperature and salinity and also affected from 3D underwater space. 3D underwater communication is sensitive on propagation loss of acoustic wave and underwater noise with complexity of communication space. In this paper, transmission performance with consideration of these characteristics of 3D underwater communication environments is measured and analyzed on MANET operated on 3D underwater communication environments. Some underwater MANET operation conditions will be suggested. Computer simulation with underwater simulator based on NS-2 will be used for performance measure, performance parameter like as throughput, transmission delay, packet loss rate and consumed energy will be used in simulation for performance measure.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.309-314
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• 2012

In this paper, we present surface-to-underwater visible light communication systems using white LEDs. Pulse position modulation (PPM)-based analogue data communications and on-off keying-based digital data communications systems are developed. Inexpensive and commercial power-LEDs and photo-diodes are used to construct two types of systems. We report the experimental results obtained from the prototype systems to show the possibility of an optical underwater visible light transceiver as a basis for short range underwater wireless network. Their performance deteriorates more than the atmosphere's one because of attenuation and scattering of the light in water, but these results are promising for the potential to create more robust network interface that improve medium performance such as a LED modulation and a photo-detector demodulation.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.134-145
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• 2004

The study aims to develop the underwater wireless telephone system. The system is designed based on the underwater acoustic communication channel parameters such as ambient noise, multipath effect and diver breathing noise. The system adopts SSB modem and its carrier frequency is about 33 kHz in which ambient noise level is low and therefore a high S/N ratio is easily obtained. The source level of the transmitter is designed as 131 dB re 1μPa. Its intelligibility index of sentence shows as 80% or mure in the range of less than 300m in the sea trial.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.243-247
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• 2009

For obtaining high speed data rate, underwater acoustic communication has several problems by the different environmental problem compared to wireless communication. To overcome this problem, the research is going steadily. In this paper, the property of underwater acoustic channel is considered, and the explanation of recently various method of transmitting and receiving and the domestic and foreign trend of underwater acoustic communication are taken into account.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.425-430
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• 2013

Robust and high speed underwater communication is severely limited when compared to communications in terrestial. In free space, RF communication operates over long distances at high data rates. However, the obstacle in seawater is the severe attenuation due to the conducting nature. Acoustic modems are capable of long range communication up to several tens of kilometers, but it has low data-rate, high power consumption and low propagation speed. An alternative means of underwater communication is based on optics, wherein high data rates are possible. In this paper, the characteristics of underwater channel in the range of visible wavelength is investigated. And the possibility of optical wireless communication in underwater is also described. The LED-based transceiver and CMOS sensor module are integrated in the system, and the performance of image transmission was demonstrated.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.4
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• pp.97-107
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• 2013

Underwater wireless communication systems can be useful for underwater environment observation, catastrophe prevention, ocean resources exploration, ocean organism research, vessel sinking exploration, and so on. However, unlike terrestrial wireless communication, underwater wireless communication should consider factors such as long propagation delay, limited transmission capacity, high bit-error rate due to potential loss in power, ambient noise, man-made noise, multi-path, etc., because of the inherent characteristics of water. Thus, in this paper, we propose a suitable media access control(MAC) protocol that applies a combination of the ALOHA MAC protocol and the CSMA/CA MAC protocol to underwater environment. We further propose a mathematical analysis model to evaluate performance. We also verify performance improvement in the proposed scheme in comparison with existing MAC protocols.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.579-582
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• 2016

Recently, wireless communication system has been widely used in a variety of fields along with the remarkable advancement of communication technology. Sound communication system in underwater wireless communication is utilized in underwater communication since it has better transmission capacity than the existing RF. However, sound communication system has the problems such as low speed communication, transmission delay and limited bandwidth, and the studies have been actively conducted on the visible light communication underwater to improve these problems. Therefore, the visible light communication underwater using ASK modulation is suggested for the effective communication in this article.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.17-22
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• 2011

The underwater environments are quite different from the terrestrial ones in terms of the communication channel and constrains. In underwater wireless sensor network, the probability of node failure is high because sensor nodes are deployed in more harsh environments than the ground based networks and moved by waves and currents. There are researches considering the communication environments of underwater to improve the data transmission throughput. In this paper, we present a checkpointing scheme of the cluster heads that recoveries from a cluster head failure quickly. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme enhances the reliability of the networks and more efficient in terms of the energy consumption and the recovery latency than without checkpointing.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.143-150
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• 2018

In this study, we designed and developed an underwater LED communication system composed of an LED and a photo sensor. In addition, we experimented with video data transmission in a water tank. Two communication modules were installed in the 3 m water tank, and the image data transmission test was successfully performed at a rate of 20 frames per second(FPS), image resolution of $480{\times}272$, and data communication speed of 4 Mbps.