WUWNet’25 Program

Time Conference Content
October 30, 2025
8:30-8:50 Opening address
8:50-9:20 Keynote Speech: Chunru Wan
9:30-10:00 Keynote Speech: Sai-Kit Yeung
10:00-10:20 Group photo & Coffee Break
session1 Wei Li
10:20-11:10 Long paper: Channel Estimation for Doubly-Spread Channels
Short paper: A Robust Underwater Acoustic High-Order Direct-Sequence Spread Spectrum Receiver Under Time-Varying Doppler Shift and Strong Noise Interference
Short paper: BER Performance Evaluation of Rake-DSSS in UWA Channels
11:10-12:15 Long paper: Research on a Novel Group Index Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum System in Long-time-delay Multipath Channels for UWA Communication
Short paper: Underwater Acoustic Noise Generation Based on WGAN-GP
Short paper: Co-Channel Interference Cancellation for MIMO-OSDM Underwater Acoustic Channel Estimation
Short paper: TTQMAC: A Q-Learning-Based Adaptive TDD-TDMA MAC Protocol for Large-Scale Underwater Acoustic Networks
12:15-12:30 Discussion
12:30-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-14:30 keynote speech: Weimin Huang
14.30-14.55 special talk: Gang Qiao
session2 Quansheng Guan
14:55-15.30 Long paper: Tunable Active Metasurfaces for Next Generation Underwater aRIS-assisted Communication
Short paper: An Improved-MRC in Underwater SIMO-OFDM Communication System Under Highly Spatially Correlated Channels
15:30-15:40 coffee break
15:40-16:10 keynote speech: Fausto P. Garcia Marquez
16:10-16:35 special talk: Roee Diamant
16:35-17:25 Short paper:A Medium Access Control Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Communication Network Based on the Upper Confidence Bound Algorithm
Short paper: Neural Network-Based Underwater Acoustic OTSM-IM Detector
Short paper: An Adaptive Modulation Method for UAC Based on Multi-Dimensional Channel Awareness
17:25-17:40 Discussion
October 31, 2025
8:30-8:55 plenary speech: Jianxiao Zou
9:00-9:25 plenary speech: Yukihiro
session3 Ruiqin Zhao
9:25-10:05 Long paper: Target Detection Method Based on Average Absolute Gray Difference-Point Spread Function with Experimental Validation
Long paper: A Cyclic-Subarray-Rotating Real-Time Focused Beamforming Method
10:05-10:15 coffee break
10:15-11:15 Short paper: CWMA: Coding-In-The-Water Enabled Multiple Access
Short paper: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning-Based Adaptive Scheduling MAC Protocol for AUV Formation
Short paper: A Reservation-Based Adaptive Scheduling MAC Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks
Short paper: Q-VBF: Q-Learning-Driven Power Vector-Based Forwarding Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks
11:15-12:15 Long paper: Improving the Classification of Humpback Whale Calls Using Multi-Modal Learning: Integration of Audio and Metadata
Short paper: A heuristic collision avoidance MAC protocol for mobile underwater acoustic network
Short paper: A Medium Access Control Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Communication Network Based on the Upper Confidence Bound Algorithm
Short paper: Power Allocation for SNR Optimization in OCDM-Based Underwater Acoustic Communications
12:15-12:25 Discussion
12:25-14:00 Lunch break
session4 Weihua Jiang
14:00-14:45 Short paper: Enhanced Energy-Flow Beamforming via a Nested VP Hybrid Array for Underwater Radiated Noise Source Localization
Short paper: Automated Directivity Testing of Transducers with Integrated Control and Signal Processing
Short paper: Three-Dimensional Reconstruction for Oceanic Sound Speed Field with Use of Sparse Underwater Measurement
14:45-15:05 Extended Abstracts: A Hybrid CS-TDMA Protocol with Dynamic Neighbor Clustering for Delay-Aware Underwater Acoustic Networks
Extended Abstracts:ARA-MAC: An Adaptive Receiver Alignment MAC Protocol for Buoy-Based Ocean Monitoring Networks
Extended Abstracts:Harmonic Diversity: Exploiting Nonlinear-Generated Harmonics for Enhanced Reliability in UWACs
Extended Abstracts:SPTF-YOLO: A Sonar-Parameter-Embedded and Time-Frequency-Feature-Guided YOLO for Object Detection in Sonar Images
15:05-15:15 coffee break
15:15-15:45 Short paper: Modality-Aware Fusion Dueling DQN for Sparse Underwater Visual Tracking
Short paper: Underwater Vehicle Positioning and Accuracy Evaluation Based on Improved Particle Filter
15:45-16:00 Discussion
16:00-16:15 closing ceremony (announcing best paper awards)