• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.693-699
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• 2013

In this paper, ${\pi}/4$-DQPSK modem according to ITU-R M.1842-1 recommendation Annex1 is investigated and simulated. At first, standardization and technical trend of VHF maritime mobile communication are introduced. The ${\pi}/4$-DQPSK modem defined in the Annex1 should support 28.8Kbps bit transmission rate within 25KHz frequency bandwidth. We describe the system model and simulation process of ${\pi}/4$-DQPSK modem transmitter and receiver design with RRC(Root Raised Cosine) transmitter and receiver filter. Then we suggest various graphical simulation results(time domain signals, constellation, power spectral density according to roll-off factor, eye diagram), and show simulated BER performance of the modem. From the simulation results, it is shown that roll-off factor of RRC filter affects to BER performance according to SNR and the designed simulation model meets the spectrum mask requirement suggested in ITU-R M.1842-1 recommendation.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.370-375
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• 2008

Automatic Identification System (AIS) is recently introduced to the maritime navigation systems. It is aimed to increase safety of vessels at sea by exchanging information to coastal monitoring stations. This article presents a ship traffic monitoring system by using the AIS information communication system using MS Visual C++. Then, the mobile Internet AIS introduced here is considerably improving and extending AIS functionalities compared to VHF AIS. When each ship is connected to the Internet network through the developed AIS system with her own client ID, all of her AIS information is surely sent to a server at her own base station by processing the information via the Internet network.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2003.09a
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• pp.471-475
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• 2003

This paper proposes a sensor-fusion technique where the data sets for the previous moments are properly transformed and fused into the current data sets to enable accurate measurement, such as, distance to an obstacle and location of the service robot itself. In the conventional fusion schemes, the measurement is dependent on the current data sets. As the results, more of sensors are required to measure a certain physical parameter or to improve the accuracy of the measurement. However, in this approach, instead of adding more sensors to the system, the temporal sequence of the data sets are stored and utilized for the measurement improvement. Theoretical basis is illustrated by examples and the effectiveness is proved through the simulations. Finally, the new space and time sensor fusion (STSF) scheme is applied to the control of a mobile robot in an unstructured environment as well as structured environment.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.187-194
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• 2015

Accurate relative location estimation is a key requirement in indoor localization systems based on wireless sensor networks (WSNs). However, although these systems have applied not only various optimization algorithms but also fusion with sensors to achieve high accuracy in position determination, they are difficult to provide accurate relative azimuth and locations to users because of cumulative errors in inertial sensors with time and the influence of external magnetic fields. This paper based on ultra-wideband positioning system, which is relatively suitable for indoor localization compared to other wireless communications, presents an indoor localization system for estimating relative azimuth and location of location-unaware nodes, referred to as target nodes without applying any algorithms with complex variable and constraints to achieve high accuracy. In the proposed method, the target nodes comprising three mobile nodes estimate the relative distance and azimuth from two reference nodes that can be installed by users. In addition, in the process of estimating the relative localization information acquired from the reference nodes, positioning errors are minimized through a novel modified rounding estimation technique in which Kalman filter is applied without any time consumption algorithms. Experimental results show the feasibility and validity of the proposed system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.857-862
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• 2007

In this paper, we studied about the antenna designed by heart-shape beam pattern for 4G mobile communication applications. The proposed whole size of structure was identical if it compare with the basis structure. But size of the patch was improved a little(upaward 1.3). The impedance bandwidth was improved about 258% which compares with the basis structure. And the structure could get very good characteristic applicatory to IMT-Advanced. Impedance bandwidth of antenna was about 22%(870MHz). The gain of above 8.7dBi was achieved extended IMT-Advanced all frequency band.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2012.10a
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• pp.123-124
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• 2012

Over the past decades, information and communication service providing safe and efficient navigation have been tried in maritime area. However, there were provided different ways such as different protocol or different policy. It made hard to serve efficiently. The introduction of MSI as a part of e-navigation development can be a kind of concepts to solve this problem. This paper tries to suggest a conceptual design of onboard application middleware to be able to communicate the shore-side maritime safety information system, take into account the reuse of open-source software.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.281-288
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• 2010

This paper investigates the performance of IEEE 802.11p wireless access in vehicular environments (WAVE) system in small-scale fading models reported by Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). We redesign the small-scale fading models to be applied to the computer simulation and develop the IEEE 802.11p WAVE physical layer simulator to provide the bit error rate and packet error rate performances. Moreover, a new channel estimator using decision directed channel estimation and linear minimum mean square error smoothing is proposed in order to improve the performance of the conventional least square channel estimator using two identical long training symbols. The simulation results are satisfactorily coincident with the scenarios of Georgia Tech report, and the proposed channel estimator significantly outperforms the conventional channel estimator.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.39 no.7
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• pp.754-759
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• 2015

Nowadays, short distance communication systems with low power energy (LPE) are developed for identification and monitoring of site identification of vessel crews and passengers (SIVCP). LPE communication modules, such as Bluetooth low energy (BLE) and Zigbee, are used for short distance communications with LPE. These modules enable 1:N communications and their popularity is growing since the modules can be mounted on movable objects, such as mobile devices and human body. When these modules are used, the important factor that affects their operation time and design are the capacity and size of battery. Therefore, they must be made as small as possible, and the battery should be selected to be slightly smaller than the module. In this study, we calculate the theoretical life of batteries used in SIVCP BLE modules using data sheet and discharge characteristic graph under the condition of a 1/250 transmission-ratio (TR). We thus calculate experimental life by measuring transmission current for the same TR, and low speed mode current for a 1/5000 TR and measure long-term experimental life using 1/25 TR for days. Through these experiments, we verify experimental methods for the prediction and extension of battery life that would enable us to select appropriate sizes of batteries based on vessel usage and passenger types. The selections of the module TR and battery size are important factors affecting the cost reduction of module design, the battery maintenance, and passenger convenience.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.46 no.6
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• pp.570-575
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• 2022

The MX-S2X, utilizing high-frequency broadband communication technology, provides a reliable connection between land, ship, and facilities. This technology is expected to be effectively utilized as a future maritime communication infrastructure in the upcoming mixed navigational situation among autonomous and manned and/or unmanned ships. Following the physical layer design and M&S-based performance analysis of the MX-S2X system to overcome maritime multipath fading, this paper confirms the optimized and detailed design of physical layer hardware and implemented it to verify the performance. The PER(Packet Error Rate) performance was then measured by configuring a test environment to verify the implemented hardware. The results showed that the performance degradation was 0.2 dB in the AWGN environment and 1.2 dB in the Multi-path Fading on Sea Environment, thus confirming the successful implementation of the physical layer.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.529-534
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• 2002

It was recommended for all ship engaged in international voyages to carry the dedicated Digital Selective Calling receiver, DSC equipment, VHF transceiver, etc according to Global Maritime Distress & Safety System. Also International Maritime Organization recommended for navigation and communication equipments to applicate the EMC regulations, therefore most of electronic equipments using in the vessel to be faced with problems to cope with new regulations. This study has applied and analyzed the EMC for an equipment integrated with Ch.70 dedicated DSC receiver, DSC equipment, VHF transceiver and groped for solutions to cope with. The test has applied the electromagnetic interference such as the measurement for unwanted emissions from conductive & radio emission and the electromagnetic susceptibility such as the immunity from voltage, frequency variation and electro static discharge, hence comes to be understand the problems related with the power and the earth.