Workshop Program
Thursday, September 30, 2010
07:45 - 08:30 Registration
08:30 - 08:45 Welcome & Announcements
08:45 - 09:45 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jules Jaffe, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
09:45 - 10:10 Coffee Break
10:10 - 11:40 Session 1: AUVs and Systems (Chair: Dr. Carrick Detweiler)
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Wavelet Compression with Set Partitioning for Low Bandwidth Telemetry from AUVs
Chris Murphy (WHOI), Hanumant Singh (WHOI)
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Distributed Localization in Cluttered Underwater Environments
Muzammil Hussain (Univ. of Oxford), Niki Trigoni (Univ. of Oxford)
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A Biomimetic Quasi-static Electric Field Physical Channel for Underwater Ocean Networks
J. Friedman (UCLA), Dustin Torres (UCLA), Thomas Schmid (UCLA), J. Dong (UCLA), Mani B. Srivastava (UCLA)
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Autonomous Depth Adjustment for Underwater Sensor Networks (short paper)
Carrick Detweiler (MIT), Marek Doniec (MIT), L. Vasilescu (MIT), E. Basha (MIT), Daniela Rus (MIT)
11:40 - 12:40 Lunch
12:40 - 14:10 Poster and Demo Session
14:10 - 15:25 Session 2: Networking I (Chair: Dr. Paolo Casari)
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Contention Analysis of MAC Protocols that Count
Affan Syed (USC), John Heidemann (USC)
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An OFDM Based MAC Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Networks
Zhong Zhou (Univ. of Connecticut), Son Le (Univ. of Connecticut), Jun-Hong Cui (Univ. of Connecticut)
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D-Sync Doppler-Based Time Synchronization for Mobile Underwater Sensor Networks
Feng Lu (UC-San Diego), Diba Mirza (UC-San Diego), Curt Schurgers (UC-San Diego)
15:25 - 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 - 17:00 Session 3: Communications (Chair: Dr. Shengli Zhou)
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Joint Channel Estimation and Data Recovery for High-Rate Underwater Acoustic Communications with Multi-Carrier Modulation (short paper)
Andrey Morozov (WHOI), Lee Freitag (WHOI), Jim Preisig (WHOI)
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Data Detection Algorithms for Doppler Distorted OFDM Systems (short paper)
Srinivas Yerramalli (USC), Milica Stojanovic (Northeastern U.), Urbashi Mitra (USC)
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OFDM in Deep Water Acoustic Channels with Extremely Long Delay Spread (short paper)
Zhaohui Wang (Univ. of Connecticut), Shengli Zhou (Univ. of Connecticut), Josko Catipovic (Naval Undersea Warfare Center), Jie Hang (Univ. of Connecticut)
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R&D of a Dual Mode Acoustic Modem Testbed for Shallow Water Channels (short paper)
Feng Tong (Xiamen University), Shengyong Zhou (Xiamen University), Bridget Benson (UC-San Diego), Ryan Kaster (UC-San Diego)
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Antennas for Mussel Based Biological Sensor Networks in Rivers (short paper)
Kenneth Hunt (Univ. of Iowa), James Niemeier (Univ. of Iowa), Anton Kruger (Univ. of Iowa)
17:00 - 18:00 Evening Social Event, Sponsored by Teledyne-Benthos
Friday, October 1, 2010
07:45 - 08:30 Registration
08:30 - 9:30 Panel: What's next for underwater networks?
Panelist:
- Dr. Zygmunt Haas (National Science Foundation)
- Dr. Bob Headrick (Office of Naval Research)
- Mr. Dale Green (Teledyne-Benthos)
- Dr. Hanumant Singh (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
- Dr. Josko Catipovic (Naval Undersea Warfare Center)
- Dr. John Heidemann (University of Southern California, ISI)
09:30 - 10:10 Poster session continued (overlap with coffee break)
10:00 - 10:25 Coffee Break
10:25 - 11:45 Session 4: Networking II (Chair: Dr. Milica Stojanovic)
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A Study of Incremental Redundancy Hybrid ARQ over Markov Channel Models Derived from Experimental Data
Beatrice Tomasi (Univ. of Padova), Paolo Casari (Univ. of Padova), Leonardo Badia (IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies), Michele Zorzi (Univ. of Padova)
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Network Coding to Combat Packet Loss in Underwater Networks
Mandar Chitre (National University of Singapore), Wee-Seng Soh (National University of Singapore)
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Reliable Transport and Storage Protocol with Fountain Codes for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (short paper)
Rui Cao (Univ. of Florida), Liuqing Yang (Univ. of Florida)
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Hierarchical Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (short paper)
Andrej Stefanov (Northeastern Univ.), Milica Stojanovic (Northeastern Univ.)
11:45 - 12:45 Lunch
13:00 Tour