US 12,457,148 B2
Underwater network management system and operation method thereof
Soohyun Park, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Sooyoung Shin, Daejeon (KR); Delphinraj Kesari, Seoul (KR); Eunbi Ko, Seoul (KR); Jinyoung Lee, Seoul (KR); and Sunho Yum, Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Assigned to Kookmin University Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation, Seoul (KR)
Appl. No. 18/011,391
Filed by Kookmin University Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation, Seoul (KR)
PCT Filed Feb. 15, 2021, PCT No. PCT/KR2021/001920
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 19, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/256655, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 23, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0074925 (KR), filed on Jun. 19, 2020; application No. 10-2021-0006156 (KR), filed on Jan. 15, 2021; and application No. 10-2021-0018157 (KR), filed on Feb. 9, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0308341 A1, Sep. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 41/046 (2022.01); H04B 13/02 (2006.01); H04W 88/16 (2009.01)
CPC H04L 41/048 (2013.01) [H04B 13/02 (2013.01); H04W 88/16 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An underwater network management system comprising:
a manager corresponding to a management station; and
a plurality of agents connected to the manager and corresponding to a gateway and a plurality of underwater devices,
wherein each of the manager and the plurality of agents comprises an underwater management information base (u-MIB) including a plurality of managed objects for managing an underwater network and the plurality of underwater devices, and
the manager controls operations for status monitoring and management of the underwater network and the plurality of underwater devices based on information included in managed objects provided from the plurality of agents
wherein the plurality of agents comprise:
a proxy agent corresponding to the gateway;
a master agent corresponding to an underwater device connected to the proxy agent from among the plurality of underwater devices; and
a sub agent corresponding to an underwater device connected to the master agent,
wherein the proxy agent transmits a request message received from the manager to the master agent,
the master agent transmits the request message to the sub agent, receives a first response message including at least one first managed object related to the request message from the sub agent, and transmits a second response message including the at least one first managed object included in the received first response message and at least one second managed object related to the request message from among managed objects of the master agent to the proxy agent, and
the proxy agent transmits a third response message including the at least one first managed object and the at least one second managed object included in the second response message received from the master agent to the manager.