• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.12
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• pp.2642-2648
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• 2010

The design of coupling and rectifying circuits for the maritime VHF digital modem is investigated in this paper. To monitor the transmitting power of the modem, a directional coupler which is used to extract a small fraction of the transmitter signal power, and a rectifying circuit which make DC voltage proportional to the coupled rf power are designed and fabricated. The parallel-coupled line coupler with directivity of above 25 dB at 160 MHz bands is designed and it is shown that the output voltage of the rectifying circuit is linearly changing from 0.85 V to 1.6 V when the transmitting power of the modem is varying from 1 W to 25 W. The proposed coupler and rectifying circuits are expected to be suitable for maritime VHF digital modem.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39C no.7
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• pp.582-588
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• 2014

IMO and IALA have undertaken projects that GMDSS Modernization and E-navigation, which refer to "Future digital communications systems" for a more efficient transmission of voice and data communications in the VHF maritime mobile service. ITU has also resolved in WRC-07 Resolution 357 to study the use of spectrum-efficient technologies in order to provide for the operation of ship and port security and maritime safety systems. IALA and ITU WP5B have coordinated for the technical developments and the spectrum issues. Recommendation ITU-R M.1842-1 has approved by WP5B meeting. This revision provides a wideband data service both 50kHz and 100kHz in the VHF maritime mobile service. This paper has studied E-navigation, its needs for data exchange that includes explanations of the current methods for transmitting data by VHF that based in land mobile radio service. A further technologies trend is estimated for Recommendation ITU-R M.1842-1, that is based on the land mobile radio standards with some tailored to fit the needs of the maritime mobile service.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.259-266
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• 1998

406MHz and INMARSAT-E EPIRB facility transmits the distress alerts by the relay of the polar-satellites and INTELSAT, but may cause the probability of delayed transmission because of the orbital period and not compliance with the implementation of GMDSS rules for small ships in A1 area.. Digital Selective Calling forms a critical part of the terrestrial elements of the GMDSS system and ensures the reliability and the efficiency in the system. In this paper, we suggests that new DSC EPIRB in the VHF band to overcome this defect for small ships in A1 area, and analyze the ITU-R recommendations and technical characteristics, design and implement the algorithm of calling sequences, frequency synthesizer for the RF signal and FSK moulation signals.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Navigation
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.21-29
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• 1998

The marine self-organizing VHF data link is a digital radio link with self-organizing ability, which exploits the STDMA algorithm and operates in marine VHF channels. It can support the applications of surveillance, situation awareness and communication. It is the core technology of the Universal AIS which is considered as a future surveillance system at sea by the IMO. In this paper, the operational principle of the marine self-organizing VHF data link is introduced. Simultaneously, a new access protocol is proposed to enhance the marine self-organizing VHF data link so as to support point-to-point communication. The point-to-point communication is one of the most important bases to establish dynamic internetworks among computers on the bridges in the future.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38C no.4
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• pp.371-377
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• 2013

Fishing boats more than 5 tons is obliged to VHF DSC by Fishing Vessels Act and Vessel Safety Act. The owner of the fishing vessel is equipped to the automatic position reporting device in accordance with the Notice of the Minister of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs to regulations, shall be ensure to navigations safety and in order to respond quickly in the event of maritime accidents on fishing vessels. East sea set up to start in 2012, which is now underway the annual install plain to the yellow sea and the south sea for VHF coast stations. It is web-based remote operation of DSC on the remote control and monitoring in Fishery Information Communication Station for the coastal VMS construction project. All fishing vessels is VHF DSC in conjunction with the GPS that location information transmitted to the coast station. automatically by the DSC call. This paper has been studied on the communications coverage set up and traffic operation for realization a roaming service by navigation route tracking and RSSI techniques in parallel algorithm refer to VHF DSC coast stations in east sea.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.8B
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• pp.1012-1020
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• 2011

In this paper a design of $\pi$/4-DQPSK baseband receiver for the exchange of digital data and e-mail between shore and ship stations and/or among ship stations in the maritime mobile service VHF channels is described. Due to the permitted relatively big frequency instability of local oscillators at the transmitter and the receiver of maritime communication system, the designed baseband receiver should have the capabilities of correct estimation and compensation of the synchronization parameters, such as symbol timing and frequency offset, from the received signal which might include relatively big frequency error. Simulated BER results show that the designed baseband receiver works less than 0.5dB loss under AWGN channel when the normalized frequency offset of the received signal is more then 20%.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.06a
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• pp.344-347
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• 2013

본 고에서는 AM과 FM라디오의 디지털방송 전환을 위하여 현재 사용 중인 방송대역에서의 IN-BAND 방식 외에도 VHF 하위대역 혹은 VHF상위대역을 사용하는 OUT-Of-BAND 방식에 대해 각 전송방식의 장단점을 분석하였다. 그러나 현재 디지털라디오뿐만 아니라 TV도 UHDTV 도입을 위해 VHF상위대역 주파수 사용을 원하고 있어 DMB와 라디오와 TV의 차세대방송 주파수 요구가 상호 충돌이 예상된다. 그러므로 본 고에서는 FM의 디지털라디오 전환방법으로 VHF하위대역(TV채널 5번과 6번)에서의 OUT-Of-BAND 방법에 의한 DRM+ 전송방식 적용을 제안하고 있다, 중파라디오의 디지털방송도 동일 계열 DRM 기술 적용으로 수신기를 값싸게 제조하고 빠르게 보급함으로써 디지털라디오의 활성화 방안을 제시하고 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.24-27
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• 2013

본 연구는 지상파TV의 디지털전환 완료 이후 아날로그 AM과 FM라디오의 디지털 전환과 새로운 UHDTV방송 도입을 위해 VHF 상위대역과 700MHz 대역에서의 효율적인 주파수 할당과 활용방안을 제시하고 있다. 아울러 방송은 UHD 영상과 디지털오디오 등 고품질 서비스도 중요하지만 무엇보다 수신이 잘되고 편리해야 하므로 강인한 신호 전송과 수신환경 개선 방안도 함께 제시하고자 한다. 특히 VHF 상 하위 대역과 AM/FM 라디오 대역 및 DTV 대역 그리고 700MHz 대역 등 방송주파수 전체 대역에서 UHDTV방송과 디지털라디오방송 환경을 구축하는데 서로 충돌 없는 합리적인 주파수 할당과 SFN 전송망 구축에 의한 효과적인 주파수 이용 방안을 제시하고 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.12
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• pp.2232-2240
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• 2017

IMO has made AIS and VHF mandatory for international sailing vessels through SOLAS, and korea if mandating specific vessels through the law for safety of vessels and the ship installation technology standards. However, due to various communication equipments and complicated usage method, malfunction occurs, and the response delay to the actual structure signal often causes human accidents. So recently, as a part of GMDSS modernization, maritime communication devices are attempting to interwork and integrate different types of marine communication system in order to construct a next generation maritime communication system. In this paper, we describe a technique to implement the DSC function by interlocking and integrating the AIS device and VHF. We will present the basis for achieving domestic technical standards and standardization through the linking algorithm of the data that can extract the ship information from AIS and utilize it the DSC function of VHF.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.541-545
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• 2014

Rec. ITU-R M.1842-1 is international recommendation for VHF band communication guideline in maritime mobile service RR Appendix 18 channels. In this paper, we simulate 28.8 kbps VHF ${\pi}$/4-DQPSK digital baseband modem compatible with the recommendation, then it is designed and implemented with FPGA. Cazac sequence is used as a preamble since packet format is not defined untill now in the recommendation. Baseband modem is designed by VHDL language and implemented on NEXYS4 development platform having Atrix7 FPGA chip from Xilinx. For wireless communication test of total prototype system, ADC/DAC board is implemented and EV9730 RF module is utilized. From the experimental results, implemented FPGA modem shows spectral bandwidth of 25 kHz and successful data exchanges between tx and rx communication platform.