WUWNet'17 Program
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Sunday, November 5, 2017 (DAY 0)
16:30pm – 18:30pm Registration
Monday, November 6, 2017 (DAY 1)
8:00am - 8:15am Registration
08:15am – 08:30am Opening Remarks (10 min) (J-F Bousquet and Stefano Basagni)
08:30am – 9:30am Keynote Speech I (1 hour) (Session chair: Greg McKinnon, Amirix)
Underwater Communications: Past, Present and Future
Speaker: Prof. Milica Stojanovic , (Northeastern University & Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
09:30am – 09:45am Break (Poster and Demo setup)
09:45am – 11:50am
Technical Session I: Network Architectures and Models
1 invited paper [20 min], 2 full paper [40 min], 1 short paper [20 min], 2 abstracts [25 min] Total: 125 min
- CUMAC-CAM: Addressing Triple Hidden Terminal Problems for Multi-Channel Transmission in Underwater Sensor Networks [Full Paper]
Purobi Rahman (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh); Mohammad S Alam (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh); Shamim Ara Shawkat (University of Tennessee, USA); Mohammad Asadul Hoque (East Tennessee State University, USA) - Learning to Communicate Underwater an Exploration of Limited Mobility Agents in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks [Short Paper]
Steven Porretta, Evangelos Kranakis and Michel Barbeau (Carleton University, Canada); Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Institute Mines-Telecom, France) - Aqua-Sim Next Generation: An NS-3 Based Underwater Sensor Network Simulator [Full Paper]
Robert Martin and Sanguthevar Rajasekaran (University of Connecticut, USA); Zheng Peng (City College of New York, USA) - Multimodal Underwater Networks: Recent Advances and a Look Ahead [Invited paper]
Filippo Campagnaro and Roberto Francescon (University of Padova, Italy); Paolo Casari (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain); Roee Diamant (University of Haifa, Israel); Michele Zorzi (University of Padova, Italy) - Performance of the Combined Free/Demand Assignment Multiple Access Protocol for Underwater Networks [Invited paper]
Wael Gorma and Paul D Mitchell (University of York,United Kingdom (Great Britain))) - Reliable Acoustic Link using Non-coherent Turbo-coded Frequency Shift Keying [Poster Paper]
Andrew A Dobbin and Jean-Francois Bousquet (Dalhousie University, Canada) - Object Tracking Using Modified Lossy Extended Kalman Filter [Invited Paper]
Mohammadreza Alimadadi, Milica Stojanovic and Pau Closas (Northeastern University, USA)
11:50pm – 01:00pm Lunch
01:00pm – 02:40pm Technical Session II: Network deployments and applications
2 invited paper [40 min], 1 full paper [20 min], 2 short paper [40 min], Total: 100 min
- The Barrow Strait Real Time Observatory: Under-ice Monitoring in the Canadian High Arctic [Invited Paper]
Clark Richards (Bedford Institute of Oceanography & Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Canada) - Full Reconfiguration of Underwater Acoustic Networks through Low-Level Physical Layer Access [Full paper]
Filippo Campagnaro and Roberto Francescon (University of Padova, Italy); University of Padova, Italy (EvoLogics GmbH, Germany); Paolo Casari (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain); Konstantin Kebkal (Evologics GmbH, Germany); Michele Zorzi (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy) - ECO-Friendly Underwater Acoustic Communications: Channel Availability Prediction for Avoiding Interfering Marine Mammals [Short Paper]
Wei Cheng (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA); Yu Luo (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, USA); Zheng Peng (City College of New York, USA); Jun-Hong Cui (University of Connecticut & Jilin University, USA) - Detecting Abnormal Speed of Marine Robots Using Controlled Lagrangian Particle Tracking Methods [Short Paper]
Sungjin Cho and Fumin Zhang (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Catherine Edwards (Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, USA) - Securing Underwater Communications: Key Agreement Based on Fully Hashed MQV [Invited Paper]
Angelo T Capossele and Chiara Petrioli (University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy); Daniele Spaccini (Universita degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy); Gabriele Saturni (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Daniele Venturi (University of Rome “Sapienza”, Italy)
02:40pm – 03:00pm Coffee Break, Poster and Demo Session (20 min)
03:00pm – 05:00pm Tour of COVE
06:00pm – 08:00pm Conference Welcome Cocktail Reception
Tuesday, November 7, 2017 (DAY 2)
07:00am – 07:50am Registration
08:30am – 9:30am Keynote Speech II (1 hour) (Session chair: Lisa Zurk, from DARPA)
“Physical-Layer Modeling as a Design Aid for Underwater Acoustic Communications”
Speaker: Daniel Rouseff , University of Washington
09:30am – 09:45am Coffee Break
10:00am – 11:40am Technical Session III: Cross-layer design and software defined modems
1 invited paper [20 min], 3 full paper [60 min],1 short paper [20 min], Total 100 min
- A Bidirectional Multi-flow MAC Protocol for Multihop Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks [Full Paper]
Jenifar Rahman (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh); Mohammad S Alam (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology & IICT, Bangladesh); Shamim Ara Shawkat (University of Tennessee, USA); Mohammad Asadul Hoque (East Tennessee State University, USA) - Advanced Data Processing for Communication-constrained Underwater Domain [Full Paper]
Ibrahim Olokodana (Prairie View A & M University USA); Yonghui Wang and Lijun Qian (Prairie View A&M University, USA) - iSonar: Software-defined Underwater Acoustic Networking for Next-generation Amphibious Smartphones [Full Paper]
Francesco Restuccia (Emrecan Demirors and Tommaso Melodia ); - Simultaneous Design of Underwater Acoustic Sensor and Communication Networks [Short Paper]
Stephane Blouin (DRDC, Canada) - Sound sources for Communications [Invited Oral Presentation/Sponsor]
Armstrong (Geospectrum Technologies)
12:00am – 01:00pm Lunch
01:00pm – 02:00pm Keynote Speech III (1 hour) (Session chair: Bruce Armstrong)
“Underwater Acoustic Communications in the Arctic”
Speaker: Prof. Lee Freitag , Woods Hole Oceanography Inst.
1 invited paper [20 min], 1 full paper [20 min], 2 short paper [40 min], ], 1 extended abstract Total 95 min
- Effective Communications Over Doubly-Selective Acoustic Channels using Iterative Signal Cancelation [Invited paper]
Christian Schlegel, Dmitri Truhachev, Zahra Alavizadeh and Amir Vaezi (Dalhousie University, Canada) - Wireless Underwater Communication via Analog OFDM Modulated Light [Poster Paper]
Gunther Ardelt, Martin Mackenberg (Horst Hellbrack ); - A Compact Magneto-Inductive Coil Antenna Design for Underwater Communications [Short Paper]
Ningcheng Gaoding and Jean-Francois Bousquet (Dalhousie University, Canada) - Entropy Minimization Based Synchronization Algorithm for Underwater Acoustic Receivers [Short Paper]
Xiao Liu and Jean-Francois Bousquet ( Dalhousie University, Canada) - Exploring Simulation of Software-Defined Underwater Wireless Networks [Full Paper]
Li Wei (MTU, USA); Yuxin Tang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China); Yuching Cao (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Zhaohui Wang (Michigan Technological University, USA); Mario Gerla (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
03:40pm – 04:00pm Break (20 min)
04:00pm – 05:00pm Judging of Posters and Demos
06:00pm – 08:00pm Conference Banquet (Presenting Best Student Paper Award)
Wednesday, November 8, 2017 (DAY 3)
07:00am – 07:50am Registration
08:00am – 9:00am Keynote Speech IV (1 hour) (Session chair: Jean Quirion, UEMS)
“Underwater Communications between Mobile Marine Nodes”
Speaker: Prof. Mae Seto ,Dalhousie University
9:00 – 09:15am Coffee Break, Poster and Demo Session
09:15am – 10:45am Technical Session V: Acoustic Propagation and Noise
2 short papers [40 min], 3 abstracts [36 min], 1 invited paper [20 min] Total 95 min
- Matched-field Source Localization Using Sparsely-coded Neural Network and Data-Model Mixed Training [Short Paper]
Shougui Cai and Wen Xu (Zhejiang University, P.R. China) - Estimation of the Under-Ice Acoustic Field in AUV Communication Networks [Short Paper]
Wensheng Sun, Chaofeng Wang, Zhaohui Wang and Min Song (Michigan Technological University, USA) - Three-dimensional ambient noise modeling [Invited Oral Presentation]
David Barclay (Dalhousie University, Canada)
10:15am – 10:35am Coffee Break
- Path Gain Characterization of Shallow Water Acoustic Channel: A Geometry Based Approach [Poster Paper]
Farheen Fauziya ( IIT Delhi, India); Brejesh Lall (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Monika Aggarwal ); Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Monika Aggarwal (Ayushi Garg and Krutika Jaiswal ); - Matched Field Source Localization as A Multiple Hypothesis Tracking Problem [Poster Paper]
Qiuyun Wu (Wen Xu ); - Measurement of a Space-Time Noise Mitigation Technique Light [Poster Paper]
Afolarin Egbewande and Jean-Francois Bousquet (Dalhousie University, Canada)
11:30am – 11:40am Closing Remarks and Adjourn
11:40am – 01:00pm Lunch
10:25am - 12:00pm Work-In-Progress Posters
- Acoustic Networks for Tsunami Early Warning System [Poster Paper]
Sandipa Singh and Lee Freitag (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA) - Noise Identification and Measurement Using Varying Acoustic Signal [Work In Progress Paper]
Sadia Ahmed (University of South Florida, USA) - A Conflict-free Topology Discovery Protocol Based on Node ID for Underwater Acoustic Networks [Work In Progress Poster]
FangSheng Zhong (Key Laboratory of Wireless-Optical Communications Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Yuan Liu (Ruiqin Zhao);
