Award

Best poster award

Harmonic Diversity: Exploiting Nonlinear-Generated Harmonics for Enhanced Reliability in UWACs

Author: Ting Ye and Zheng Peng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Jun-Hong Cui (UESTC, China)

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Best paper award

Research on a Novel Group Index Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum System in Long-time-delay Multipath Channels for UWA Communication

Authors: Xiaoyu Yang, Yuehai Zhou, Junhui Yao and F Tong (Xiamen University, China); Pengyu Du (Science and Technology on Sonar Laboratory, Hangzhou Applied Acoustic Research Institude, China)

Tunable Active Metasurfaces for Next Generation Underwater aRIS-assisted Communication

Authors: Farzad Alizadeh, Ian F Akyildiz, Kristinn Andersen and Saemundur E Thorsteinsson (University of Iceland, Iceland)

Co-Channel Interference Cancellation for MIMO-OSDM Underwater Acoustic Channel Estimation

Authors: Junhui Yao, Yuehai Zhou, Xiaoyu Yang and F Tong (Xiamen University, China); Pengyu Du (Science and Technology on Sonar Laboratory, Hangzhou Applied Acoustic Research Institude, China)

An Improved-MRC in Underwater SIMO-OFDM Communication System Under Highly Spatially Correlated Channels

Authors: Guanzhang Wu (Harbin Engineering University, China); Qiao Gang (Harbin Engerneering University, China); Lu Ma (Harbin Engineering University, China)