• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.451-460
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• 2006

Since low earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations have important advantages over geosynchronous earth orbit (GEO) systems such as low propagation delay, low power requirements, and more efficient spectrum allocation due to frequency reuse between satellites and spotbeams, they are considered to be used to complement the existing terrestrial fixed and wireless networks in the evolving global mobile network. However, one of the major problems with LEO satellites is their higher speed relative to the terrestrial mobile terminals, which move at lower speeds but at more random directions. Therefore, handover management in LEO satellite networks becomes a very challenging task for supporting global mobile communication. Efficient and accurate methods are needed for LEO satellite handovers between the moving footprints. In this paper, we propose a new seamless handover management scheme for LEO satellites (SeaHO-LEO), which utilizes the handover management schemes aiming at decreasing latency, data loss, and handover blocking probability. We also present another interesting handover management model called satellite mobility pattern based handover management in LEO satellites (PatHO-LEO) which takes mobility pattern of both satellites and mobile terminals into account to minimize the handover messaging traffic. This is achieved by the newly introduced billboard manager which is used for location updates of mobile users and satellites. The billboard manager makes the proposed handover model much more flexible and easier than the current solutions, since it is a central server and supports the management of the whole system. To show the performance of the proposed algorithms, we run an extensive set of simulations both for the proposed algorithms and well known handover management methods as a baseline model. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithms are very promising for seamless handover in LEO satellites.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.135-143
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• 2005

This paper presents an investigation of satellite radio access technology for beyond IMT-2000 systems. Although we could not see any active role of a satellite system in the 3G networks, satellite system will provide strong advantages in future systems for certain applications. Because a satellite link has longer round trip delay than a terrestrial link, we need technologies that would make the satellite component especially efficient. After presenting the satellite radio interface of the 3G system, we suggest several points which need to be considered in the beyond 3G systems. We also suggest a few candidate technologies with various simulation results.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.13-19
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• 2016

In recent years, there has been renewed activity in the study of local plasma density enhancements in the low latitude F region ionosphere (low latitude plasma blobs). Satellite, all-sky airglow imager, and radar measurements have identified the characteristics of these blobs, and their coupling to Equatorial Plasma Bubbles (EPBs). New information related to blobs has also been obtained from the Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS) satellite. In this paper, we briefly review experimental, theoretical and modeling studies related to low latitude plasma blobs.

• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2008

시공간 부호(Space-time codes; STC)는 부가적인 대역폭 요구 사항 없이도 다중경로 환경에서 부호화 이득을 얻을 수 있는 효율적인 방식이다. 위성시스템에서도 시공간부호를 이용하여 지상 중계 장치와의 협동 다이버시티 이득 구현이 가능함이 제안되어 왔다. 특히 위성 DMB 시스템에서는 방송 서비스의 단방향 특성으로 인하여 전송 다이버시티를 이용하여 성능을 향상시키는 것이 매우 효율적이라고 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 차세대 위성 DMB 서비스의 성능을 향상시키는데 기여할 수 있는 여러 가지 STC 방식의 성능을 비교한 결과를 제시한다. 본 논문에서 제시하는 방식들은 위성과 지상의 중계기가 서로 협동적으로 동작하여 STC 부호화 이득을 얻을 수 있도록 하는 방식이다. 또한, 향후 이런 방식들을 개발함에 있어서 고려해야 할 점들을 기술한다.

• 전자공학회논문지S
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• 제35S권3호
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• pp.9-18
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• 1998

For constructionof the next generation satellite B-ISDN/ATM networks considering integration with terrestrial information infrastructure networks, various high speed and wideband satellites with be launched and they will make used of frequency reue techniques for efficient management of limited frequency resource. Therefore, CCI(Co-Channel Interference) inherent in frequency reuse will be a dominant factor in performance degradation of satellite networks. This paper alanyzes the ATM cell transmission performance degradation caused by CCI. The satellite link, including up-link and down-link thermal noise, CCI, and nonlinear satellite transponder, is modeled and interleaving technique is used for compensating the ATM cell transmission performance degradation caused by burst error of satellite link. First, each satellite link subsystem is analyzed in detail and then end-to-end ATM cell transmission performance is evaluated with BER and CLR. Specifically, ATMcell transmission performance degradation caused by CCI is evaluated in detail.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제47권3호
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• pp.8-15
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• 2010

다양한 네트워크 통합에 대한 요구사항의 증가로 인하여 미래에는 하이브리드/통합 위성-지상 시스템의 중요성이 증가할 것으로 예상된다. 이 경우 위성 시스템과 지상 시스템은 서로 호환성을 가지도록 하는 것이 시스템의 효율성 측면에서 매우 중요하다. 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) 규격은 현재 4G 시스템의 가장 강력한 후보 중 하나이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 3GPP LTE 규격에 바탕을 둔 이동 위성 시스템에서의 인터리버 설계에 대해 소개한다. LTE를 포함하는 모든 4G 지상 시스템 규격에서는 효과적인 자원의 사용을 위해 수 msec 단위로 갱신이 가능한 적응적 변조 및 부호화를 채택하였다. 그러나 위성 시스템의 긴 왕복지연 때문에 이러한 적응형 방식을 그대로 적용하기는 불가능하고, 단기 페이딩에 효과적으로 대응할 수 없다. 따라서 이러한 단점을 극복하기 위한 방안으로써, 본 논문에서는 적응형 전송방식과 결합된 인터리버 방식을 제안한다. 특히, LTE 규격에 바탕을 둔 이동위성시스템을 고려하여 다양한 인터리버 설계 결과를 제시하고, 성능 시뮬레이션 결과를 비교 분석한다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.53-68
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• 1993

The field of marketing research in the satellite communication services is still in the early stage of its development. Particularly, in Korean domestic satellite service market, many theoretical and methodological opportunities now exist. In this paper we develop a model, which identifies target markets and promising application services in Korean satellite communication service Market. One key contribution of this paper is a modeling approach to the assessment of market potential and priorities of the application services in each Korean industry. We define and estimate the degree of attractiveness for each segmented market which represents the market potential estimated by current usage of terrestrial services and each market segment's willingness to adopt satellite technology. Since all possible satellite application services are not equally important in the market, they should be differentiated in terms of the likelihood of success. We introduce another index prioritizing application services by tying together three important factors affecting Korean satellite service demand. Some marketing implications of model results are also discussed. Finally the findings of our model are compared with those of other similar studies.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제32권2B호
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• pp.118-123
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• 2007

This paper studied the transmission control protocol over IP network to enhance the performance of the GSO satellite communication networks. The focus of this study is how to reduce the long round trip time and the transmission data rates over satellite link in the bidirectional satellite network. To do it, this study applied the caching and spoofing technology. The spoofing technology is used to reduce the required time for the link connection during communication. The caching technology is to improve the transmission bandwidth efficiency in the high transmission data rate link The tests and measurements in this study was performed in the commercial GSO communication satellite network and the terrestrial Internet network. The results of this paper show that the studied protocol in this paper highly enhance the performance of the bidirectional satellite communication network compare to the using TCP/IP satellite network protocol.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.172-180
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• 2017

우리군에서는 지상공간에서의 TICN과 우주공간에서의 차기위성을 연동한 미래전술네트워크 구축을 추진하고 있다. 그러나, 위성의 낮은 대역폭과 높은 운영비용에 의하여, 위성을 통한 모든 전술 정보의 유통에는 한계가 있다. 이를 극복하기 위하여, 공중망을 구축하는 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 지상 노드의 단절에 대응하여 공중중계망과 지상전술망을 효과적으로 연동하기 위한 구조와 운영하는 방안을 제안한다. 그리고, 이의 효과도를 분석하기 위한 방안을 함께 제안한다. 효과도 분석 실험 결과는 공중중계망의 운영은 지상전술망의 장애상황에 효과적으로 대처 가능함을 보여준다.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제60권6호
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• pp.121-131
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• 2018

Climate change has caused changes in environmental factors that have a direct impact on agriculture such as temperature and precipitation. The meteorological disaster that has the greatest impact on agriculture is drought, and its forecasts are closely related to agricultural production and water supply. In the case of terrestrial data, the accuracy of the spatial map obtained by interpolating the each point data is lowered because it is based on the point observation. Therefore, acquisition of various meteorological data through satellite imagery can complement this terrestrial based drought monitoring. In this study, Evaporative Stress Index (ESI) was used as satellite data for drought determination. The ESI was developed by NASA and USDA, and is calculated through thermal observations of GOES satellites, MODIS, Landsat 5, 7 and 8. We will identify the difference between ESI and other satellite-based drought assessment indices (Vegetation Health Index, VHI, Leaf Area Index, LAI, Enhanced Vegetation Index, EVI), and use it to analyze the drought in South Korea, and examines the applicability of ESI as a new indicator of agricultural drought monitoring.