• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제40권5호
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• pp.809-811
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• 2015

In this paper, for the purpose of providing high data rate services, the multi-hop frame structure is designed for the underwater acoustic (UWA) short-range system which is proposed as a part of ocean surveillance and tracking network (OSTN). Under the measured underwater channel environment, the link-level system performance are also evaluated. Simulation results show not only the packet error rate (PER) comparisons, but the optimal modulation and coding scheme (MCS) levels for the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based short-range UWA communications network.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.86-91
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• 2011

In the underwater communications, the acoustic channel is in poor communication conditions, such as long propagation delay, narrow bandwidth, and high bit-error rate. For these bad acoustic channels, we propose an efficient automatic repeat request (ARQ) for multi-hop underwater network by using the concepts of concurrent bi-directional transmission, multiple sub-packets, and overhearing data packet instead of the acknowledgement signal. Our results show that the proposed ARQ significantly reduces the transmission latency especially in high BER compared with the existing Stop and Wait ARQ.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2011년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.344-347
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• 2011

전파를 이용하는 지상에서의 무선 센서 네트워크와 달리 수중에서는 음파를 이용하여 통신을 한다. 음파를 이용한 수중 센서 네트워크에서 긴 전파지연과 제한된 대역폭을 위한 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 수중 센서 네트워크에서 긴 전파 지연으로 노드가 전송한 패킷(Packet)은 빈번히 충돌한다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 무선 네트워크에서 이용되는 백오프(Back-off) 기법이 일반적으로 이용된다. 그러나 노드의 배치에 따라 고정된 슬롯시간(Slot-time)은 불필요한 지연시간을 발생시켜 네트워크의 성능을 저하 시킨다. 본 논문에서는 슬롯시간의 동적인 설정 기법을 제안하고 기존에 연구된 MAC 프로토콜에 적용하였다. 마지막으로 기존의 MAC 프로토콜과 제안된 기법을 적용한 MAC 프로토콜의 성능을 비교하고, 그 결과 기존 MAC 프로토콜에 비하여 우수한 성능을 보임을 확인 하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.406-413
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• 2007

This paper proposes a self-recurrent wavelet neural network(SRWNN) based adaptive backstepping control technique for the robust steering control of autonomous underwater vehicles(AUVs) with unknown model uncertainties and external disturbance. The SRWNN, which has the properties such as fast convergence and simple structure, is used as the uncertainty observer of the steering model of AUV. The adaptation laws for the weights of SRWNN and reconstruction error compensator are induced from the Lyapunov stability theorem, which are used for the on-line control of AUV. Finally, simulation results for steering control of an AUV with unknown model uncertainties and external disturbance are included to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• International Journal of Ocean System Engineering
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.89-94
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• 2011

Underwater localization is a crucial capability for reliable operation of various types of underwater vehicles including submarines and underwater robots. However, sea water is almost impermeable to high-frequency electromagnetic waves, and thus absolute position fixes from Global Positioning System (GPS) are not available in the water. The use of acoustic telemetry systems such as Long Baseline (LBL) is a practical option for underwater localization. However, this telemetry network system needs to be pre-deployed and its availability cannot always be assumed. This study focuses on demonstrating the validity of terrain-based localization techniques in a GPS-denied underwater environment. Since terrain-based localization leads to a nonlinear estimation problem, nonlinear filtering methods are required to be employed. The extended Kalman filter (EKF) which is a widely used nonlinear filtering algorithm often shows limited performance under large initial uncertainty. The feasibility of using a particle filter is investigated, which can improve the performance and reliability of the terrain-based localization.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제52권4호
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• pp.106-114
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• 2015

수중 음파 센서 네트워크의 다각적인 발전에도 불구하고 네트워크상에서의 연결이 손실되는 경우가 여전히 존재한다. 특히 해양 환경에서 네트워크상의 연결 중에 발생할 수 있는 연결 단절을 유발하는 많은 다양한 문제점으로 인해 이를 보완하기 위해서 수중 음파 통신 네트워크를 위한 새로운 테스트 메커니즘이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 통신 프로세스의 문제점 및 에러가 발생하는 위치를 식별하기 위해서 장애 없이 네트워크 배포시 가장 중요한 부분들에 대해 조사할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 수중 음파 통신 네트워크(UWASN)를 위한 Step-wised Out-test 메커니즘을 도입하고 실험을 통하여 out-test 기능을 이용한 수중 단말의 작동을 엄격하게 점검하였다. 구현 및 실험 결과를 통해서 Out-test 기능의 유용성 및 우수성을 입증하였고 향후 가능한 개선을 제시하였다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.118-128
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• 2018

본 논문은 사이드 스캔 소나 영상을 컨볼루션 신경망으로 학습하여 수중물체를 탐색하는 방법을 다루었다. 사이드 스캔 소나 영상을 사람이 직접 분석하던 방법에서 컨볼루션 신경망 알고리즘이 보강되면 분석의 효율성을 높일 수 있다. 연구에 사용한 사이드 스캔 소나의 영상 데이터는 미 해군 수상전센터에서 공개한 자료이고 4종류의 합성수중물체로 구성되었다. 컨볼루션 신경망 알고리즘은 관심영역 기반으로 학습하는 Faster R-CNN(Region based Convolutional Neural Networks)을 기본으로 하며 신경망의 세부사항을 보유한 데이터에 적합하도록 구성하였다. 연구의 결과를 정밀도-재현율 곡선으로 비교하였고 소나 영상 데이터에 지정한 관심영역의 변경이 탐지성능에 미치는 영향을 검토함으로써 컨볼루션 신경망의 수중물체 탐지 적용성에 대해 살펴보았다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제14권12호
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• pp.1572-1582
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• 2011

The rapid growth of UnderWater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UW-ASNs) has led researchers to enhance underwater MAC protocols against limitations existing in underwater environment. We propose the customized robust real-time packet inspection mechanism with addressing the problem of the search for the data packet loss and network performance quality analysis in UW-ASNs, and describe our experiences using this approach. The goal of this work is to provide a framework to assess the network real-time performance quality. We propose a customized and adaptive mechanism to detect, monitor and analyze the data packets according to the MAC protocol standards in UW-ASNs. The packet analyzing method and software we propose is easy to implement, maintain, update and enhance. We take input stream as real data packets from sniffer node in capture mode and perform fully analysis. We were interested in developing software and hardware designed tool with the same capabilities which almost all terrestrial network packet sniffers have. Experimental results confirm that the best way to achieve maximum performance requires the most adaptive algorithm. In this paper, we present and offer the proposed packet analyzer, which can be effectively used for implementing underwater MAC protocols.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권7호
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• pp.3329-3350
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• 2017

Installing caching and computing facilities in mobile edge networks is a promising solution to cope with the challenging capacity and delay requirements imposed on future mobile communication systems. The problem of optimal facility placement in mobile edge networks has not been fully studied in the literature. This is a non-trivial problem because the mobile edge network has a unidirectional topology, making existing solutions inapplicable. This paper considers the problem of optimal placement of a fixed number of facilities in a mobile edge network with an arbitrary tree topology and an arbitrary demand distribution. A low-complexity sequential algorithm is proposed and proved to be convergent and optimal in some cases. The complexity of the algorithm is shown to be $O(H^2{\gamma})$, where H is the height of the tree and ${\gamma}$ is the number of facilities. Simulation results confirm that the proposed algorithm is effective in producing near-optimal solutions.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.229-234
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• 2013

Diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (DMT) characterizes the fundamental relationship between the diversity gain in terms of outage probability and the multiplexing gain as the normalized rate parameter r, where the limiting transmission rate is give by rlog SNR (here, SNR denote the received signal-to-noise ratio). In this paper, we analyze the DMT and performance of an underwater network with a cooperative relay. Since over an acoustic channel, the propagation delay is commonly considerably higher than the processing delay, the existing transmission protocols need to be explained accordingly. For this underwater network, we briefly describe two well-known relay transmissions: decode-and-forward (DF) and amplify-and-forward (AF). As our main result, we then show that an instantaneous DF relay scheme achieves the same DMT curve as that of multiple-input single-output channels and thus guarantees the DMT optimality, while using an instantaneous AF relay leads at most only to the DMT for the direct transmission with no cooperation. To validate our analysis, computer simulations are performed in terms of outage probability.