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WUWNet'22

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to announce that WUWNet 2022 will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The dates for the conference are November 14-16, 2022. Boston is a research hub and home to world-class universities and teaching hospitals. It boasts beautiful architecture, pedestrian-friendly zones and many historical sites, including a place where in 1876 Alexander Graham Bell uttered the famous words

“Mr. Watson, come here.”

The conference aims to bring together leading contributors from academia and industry working in diverse areas of underwater systems engineering. The general theme this year is Networking the Blue Economy.

At this time, we invite contributions within a broad range of topics relevant to underwater systems, ranging from sensing, communication and networking to system integration. Specific topics include, but are not limited to

  • Underwater network architectures and protocols (all layers)
  • Underwater communications and signal processing (acoustic and non-acoustic)
  • Underwater signal propagation modeling
  • Underwater localization and tracking
  • Cooperative and distributed learning and signal processing
  • Community data exchange and public datasets
  • Underwater software-defined modems and software-defined networking
  • Underwater robotic systems
  • Energy-efficient hardware implementations and energy harvesting
  • Operating systems and middleware support for underwater systems
  • Applications of underwater networks including coordinated underwater vehicles, aquaculture, environmental sensing, infrastructure monitoring
  • Modeling, simulation, testbeds, and standardization for underwater systems
  • Experimental deployments and field trials
  • Integration of underwater networked systems with terrestrial and aerial systems

Please feel free to share this announcement with your colleagues and students. We look forward to seeing you in Boston,

Milica Stojanovic and Tommaso Melodia

General Chairs

1 - Call For Papers

WUWNet is the premier venue for sharing and discussing state-of-the-art research and developments of underwater networks and systems. The conference, now at its 16th edition, aims at bringing together leading contributors from academia and industry working in diverse areas of underwater systems engineering for connecting the “Blue Economies”. The WUWNet 2022 program is designed to span three days, including keynote speeches, plenary talks, panel discussions, technical presentations, and poster/demo sessions. We invite academia and industry participants from a broad range of backgrounds relevant to underwater sensing, communications, networking, robotics, systems, and applications to participate in the conference. All aspects of the networking protocol stack—from the physical layer to the application layer—and various system issues will be represented at the conference.

Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Underwater network architectures and protocols (all layers)
  • Underwater communications and signal processing (acoustic and non-acoustic)
  • Underwater signal propagation modeling
  • Underwater localization and tracking
  • Cooperative and distributed learning and signal processing
  • Community data exchange and public datasets
  • Underwater software-defined modems and software-defined networking
  • Underwater robotic systems
  • Energy-efficient hardware implementations and energy harvesting
  • Operating systems and middleware support for underwater systems
  • Applications of underwater networks including coordinated underwater vehicles, aquaculture, environmental sensing, infrastructure monitoring
  • Modeling, simulation, testbeds, and standardization for underwater systems
  • Experimental deployments and field trials
  • Integration of underwater networked systems with terrestrial and aerial systems

All full papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award.

Selected papers will be considered for fast-track review for a Special Issue of the Elsevier’s Computer Networks (COMNET) journal.

2 - Important Dates

For regular papers

Event Dates
Full and short paper submission:
August 31, 2022
Acceptance notification:
October 5, 2022
Final manuscript:
October 26, 2022

For posters and demos

Event Dates
Submission deadline:
October 12, 2022
Acceptance notification:
October 21, 2022
Final manuscript:
November 1, 2022

3 - Keynotes

Monday, Nov. 14

Enabling the networked blue economy: collaboration, connectivity, and the acceleration of innovation
Nicholas Rotker
Chief Blue Tech Strategist, Underwater Acoustic Systems, MITRE

Nick Rotker is MITRE's Chief BlueTech Strategist and leads the Underwater and Acoustic Systems department within MITRE Labs, one of the nation’s largest non-profit laboratories with a public interest mission to advance U.S. science and technology leadership. Rotker leads MITRE’s R&D and federal agency work programs in BlueTech including underwater testing, rapid prototyping, SONAR, signal processing, algorithm development, acoustic sensing, distributed sensing systems, acoustic communications, unmanned underwater vehicles, and maritime autonomy. By facilitating maritime innovation-related collaboration across government, industry, and academic stakeholders, Rotker has helped identify early stage discoveries to help solve some of our nation’s hardest undersea challenges. Nick is actively involved in regional and national maritime organizations where he lends his subject matter expertise and provides connections and mentorship to early-state entrepreneurs. He is also currently the chair of the New England Chapter for the Marine Technology Society, the leading international community of ocean scientists and engineers, practitioners, policy makers, and educators. Prior to MITRE, Nick worked as an Acoustic Research Scientist at Scientific Solutions, Inc. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Vermont and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University.

Abstract: The global blue economy is predicted to grow at double the rate of the rest of the economy by 2030. Federal investment in the blue economy is rapidly growing, and technology advances are maturing to provide new opportunities to discover and create solutions to undersea challenges. However, there are high barriers to entry for new businesses and to develop promising technologies. Economic gains are not equitable across regions and technical talent is needed to support future growth. To bring about solutions to big challenges, maximize economic growth, and spur commercial investments, greater collaboration is required. The current BlueTech innovation ecosystem needs greater access to infrastructure, connectivity among stakeholders, data availability, and a highly skilled workforce. MITRE is a non-profit R&D company with a mission to help solve critical, national challenges in the public interest. By applying the objective expertise of our technical staff and subject matter experts across a wide range of disciplines, MITRE is working to bridge the gap between academia, industry, and government connecting infrastructure, disseminating data, and accelerating deployment of maritime technology. We are committed to developing a BlueTech collaboration infrastructure to sustain existing maritime industries and catalyze growth.

Tuesday, Nov. 15

Why does my acoustic modem perform so poorly today?
Mandar Chitre
Professor, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Mandar Chitre is currently the Head of the Acoustic Research Laboratory (ARL) at the Tropical Marine Science Institute (TMSI) in Singapore. He is also an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) of the National University of Singapore (NUS). He also serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering.

Mandar’s research interests include underwater acoustic communications & networking, ocean acoustics, signal processing & machine learning, and collaborative underwater robotics. He was awarded the Distinguished Technical Achievement Award by the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society in 2020 for his work on underwater communications & networking.

Apart from his academic interests, Mandar has a strong passion for computing & software development, and considers theoretical physics a hobby. He also enjoys photography, scuba diving, cold places, seriously hot chilies, good wine, strange beers, and a game of contract bridge.

Abstract: In order to communicate effectively underwater at a high rate, we need to accurately estimate the distortions in acoustic signals as they propagate through a complicated ocean. Refraction due to an adverse sound speed profile, excessive multipath or reverberation due to a rocky seabed in shallow waters, rapid time variation and multi-scale Doppler due to a rough sea surface, and bubble plumes due to breaking waves are some of the common phenomena that pose a serious challenge to reliable communications. One would expect that well mixed waters, muddy seabed, and mild winds and waves would make Singapore waters easy to communicate through. But it is not so. On some days acoustic modems work well in these waters, and on other days when nothing seems materially different, they perform poorly. The quest to understand this variability took us on a wild journey involving ships, currents, shrimp, turbulence, surfactants and bubbles. In this talk, we will get a glimpse of this journey and develop an understanding of some of the less known, but critical, factors that affect underwater communication performance.

Wednesday, Nov. 16

Design, simulation and optimization of multimodal underwater networks
Michele Zorzi
Professor, University of Padova, Italy

Michele Zorzi received his Laurea and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. During the academic year 1992-1993 he was on leave at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). In 1993 he joined the faculty of the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. After spending three years with the Center for Wireless Communications at UCSD, in 1998 he joined the School of Engineering of the University of Ferrara, Italy, where he became a professor in 2000. Since November 2003 he has been on the faculty of the Information Engineering Department at the University of Padova. His present research interests include performance evaluation in mobile communications systems, WSN and Internet of Things, cognitive communications and networking, 5G mmWave cellular systems, vehicular networks, and underwater communications and networks.

Dr. Zorzi received several awards from the IEEE Communications Society, including the Best Tutorial Paper Award in 2008 and 2019, the Education Award in 2016, the Stephen O. Rice Best Paper Award in 2018, and the Joseph LoCicero Award for Exemplary Service to Publications in 2020. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Wireless Communications magazine from 2003 to 2005, the IEEE Transactions on Communications from 2008 to 2011, and the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking from 2014 to 2018. He has served the IEEE Communications Society as a Member-at-Large of the Board of Governors from 2009 to 2011 and from 2021 to 2023, as the Director of Education from 2014 to 2015, and as the Director of Journals from 2020 to 2021. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Abstract: When referring to underwater communication and networks, it is usually implied that acoustic technologies are employed for wireless information transfer. Indeed, acoustic communication schemes and systems have been widely researched and studied, and many practical modem implementations and commercial products exist that deliver acoustic communications for general-purpose or niche applications. Acoustic modems are generally characterized by a convenient mix of long transmission ranges, fair reliability and robustness, at the cost of a low data rate.

The recent uptake of non-acoustic underwater transmission systems suggests that in the near future it will be common for underwater devices to incorporate different physical communication technologies. Such devices are typically described as multimodal. They seek flexibility by compensating for the shortcomings of a given technology through the advantages of another. For example, a system encompassing acoustic and optical communication systems can provide long-range, low-bit-rate communications, while enabling faster data transfer at very short range. As the development of non-acoustic underwater communications is taking momentum, so is the research on how to optimally exploit the multimodal communications capabilities in different scenarios. This presentation presents a survey of our own past and recent work on this topic, covering the development both of the communication technologies and of the networking schemes and protocols for multimodal networks. As an example of the opportunities offered by multimodal communications, we discuss a few different case studies. We conclude with an outlook on likely future developments for multimodal communications.

4 - Organizing Committee

General Co-Chairs

  • Milica Stojanovic (Northeastern University)
  • Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University)

TPC Chairs

  • Stefano Basagni (Northeastern University)
  • Y. Rosa Zheng (Lehigh University)
  • Hanumant Singh (Northeastern University)

TPC Members

  • Ayman AlHarbi (Umm al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia)
  • Payman Arabshahi (University of Washington)
  • Elizabeth Basha (University of the Pacific)
  • Jean-Francois Bousquet (Dalhousie University, Canada)
  • Filippo Campagnaro (University of Padova, Italy)
  • Paolo Casari (University of Trento, Italy)
  • Yougan Chen (Xiamen University, China)
  • Wei Cheng (University of Washington Tacoma)
  • Giulia De Masi (Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi)
  • Emrecan Demirors (Northeastern University)
  • Octavia Dobre (Memorial Univ. NL, Canada)
  • Paul Gendron (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)
  • Xiaoyan Hong (University of Alabama)
  • Fei Ji (South China University of Technology, China)
  • Lianyou Jing (Dalian University of Technology, China)
  • Hovannes Kulhandjian (California State University, Fresno)
  • Wei Li (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China)
  • Yu Luo (Missisipi State University)
  • Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California)
  • Andrea Munafo (National Oceanography Centre)
  • Miao Pan (University of Houston)
  • Soo-Hyun Park (Kookmin University, South Korea)
  • Costas Pelekanakis (NATO STO CMRE)
  • Roberto Petroccia (NATO STO CMRE)
  • Dario Pompili (Rutgers University)
  • Mehdi Rahmati (Cleveland State University)
  • Christian Renner (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany)
  • Rukhsana Ruby (Shenzhen University, China)
  • Chao Shen (Carleton University, Canada)
  • Wentao Shi (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)
  • Jie Sun (Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
  • George Sklivanitis (Florida Atlantic University)
  • Aijun Song (University of Alabama)
  • Xingbin Tu (Zhejiang University, China)
  • Luiz Vieira (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
  • Zhaohui Wang (Michigan Technological University)
  • Yun Ye (City University of New York)
  • Huseyin Ugur Yildiz (TED University, Turkey)

Local Arrangements

  • Rosy Trovato (Northeastern University)

Publicity Co-Chairs

  • Costas Pelekanakis (NATO STO CMRE)
  • Francesco Restuccia (Northeastern University)

Publication Co-Chairs

  • Paolo Casari (University of Trento, Italy)
  • Aijun Song (University of Alabama)

Finance Chair

  • Fumin Zhang (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Demo and Poster Chairs

  • Emrecan Demirors (Northeastern University)
  • George Sklivanitis (Florida Atlantic University)

EDAS Chair

  • Leonardo Bonati (Northeastern University)

Web Chair

  • Zhengnan Li (Northeastern University)

5 - Paper Submission

Submission Guidelines

Technical papers must describe original research, not published or currently under review at other workshops, conferences, journals, or magazines.

All papers will be reviewed by the program committee members for novelty and contribution.

The conference accepts full papers, short papers and 2-page extended abstracts. Full papers should be complete in their treatment of a topic. Short papers may represent less mature work than full papers, or may contain new ideas for future research. 2-page extended abstracts can be submitted to report on interesting intermediate results of undergoing research, promising progresses, educational overviews, and insightful analysis of the historical or futuristic developments on various underwater topics. Full and short paper submissions that are not accepted may be recommended to be accepted as position papers (2-page extended abstracts).

Authors should prepare a PDF version of their papers. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages, that for short papers is 5 pages and extended abstract should not exceed 2 pages. All papers should be formatted in the standard ACM conference format.

The direct link for paper submission is https://wuwnet22.edas.info/.

6 - Patrons

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Dear prospective Patrons,

It is our pleasure to introduce you to WUWNet'22, the 16-th conference on Wireless Underwater Networks. WUWNet'22 will be held in Boston, MA, between Nov. 14th and 16th, 2022.

The conference aims to bring together leading contributors from academia and industry working in diverse areas of underwater systems engineering. The general theme this year is Networking the Blue Economy.

The Patrons are offered several special packages, detailed below. Each package includes an acknowledgement on the conference website, in the program guide and in the flyers distributed to the conference participants, as well as a special recognition during the conference opening and closing ceremonies. All Patrons’ packages offer complimentary registration and a range of publicity opportunities. The packages are flexible and can be customized to individual needs. A Patron organization can also support a specific social event.

Specific pre-designed packages include the following:

  • Silver Patron ($1,000): One complimentary delegate registration including reception.

  • Gold Patron ($2,000): Two complimentary delegate registrations including reception.

  • Platinum Patron ($3,000): Four complimentary delegate registrations including reception.

Patrons who wish to donate more than these amounts are welcome to use their own Patron signature.

For any additional information, please contact Prof. Milica Stojanovic and Prof. Tommaso Melodia.

With best regards,

Milica Stojanovic and Tommaso Melodia

General Chairs

7 - Posters and Demos

Call for Posters and Demos

WUWNet'22 seeks proposals for posters and live demos or videos of demos of underwater wireless systems, applications and services. Posters should describe work either new or ongoing, not published before, and provide opportunities for authors to interact directly with conference attendees. Poster and demos of research prototypes as well as commercial products are welcome. The presenter is expected to understand the system being demonstrated and explain the technical contributions of the system to the audience. Unlike posters, demos of previously published systems are welcome.

The student poster competition aims to provide a forum for researchers to show their innovative and emerging work and obtain early feedback on ongoing research from the conference attendees. The poster venue is especially suited for presenting new research directions as well as intermediate results of ongoing research that may generate discussion of promising theoretical or experimental ideas that have not yet been investigated or validated in detail. Educational, tutorial-like material related to underwater wireless systems  is also welcome. Posters describing open-source software/hardware as well as open data are encouraged. 

The demonstrations at WUWNet aim at complementing the overall program of the conference by showing real-world, applied-and-tested advances of underwater technologies. As such, demos are an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present their innovative prototypes, practical developments, on-going projects, and lessons learnt relevant for the topics of interest of the main conference (underwater sensing, communications, networking, robotics, systems, and applications). Submissions from both industry and academia are encouraged. 

Disclaimer: WUWNet is not an appropriate forum for marketing or sales presentations.

Poster & Demo Submission Instructions

Please submit an extended abstract (no more than 2 8.5x11 inch pages including all figures and references) of your poster or demo via EDAS. The title should begin with Poster: or Demo:.

Please, be as specific as possible in describing what you will demonstrate or exhibit. For demo submissions, the extended abstract must include a short description of space and equipment requirements (other than a demo booth/table). 

For the demo submission, it is also encouraged to submit an optional companion video that illustrates the demo. The companion video should highlight the technical contributions of the demo and should be no more than 1 min in length. Please include the YouTube URL of the companion video in the extended abstract. Submissions for posters should only include the extended abstract, not the poster itself. Accepted abstracts for poster/demo will be posted and maintained on the conference website, but not published in the proceedings.

You are welcome to use ACM conference format, specified at the WUWNet'22 paper submission guideline page.

Best Poster & Demo Award

All poster and demo submissions will be considered for the Best Poster Award and Best Demo Award, respectively. An independent review committee will select the winners at the conference.

Poster & Demo Co-Chairs

Poster Presentation Instructions 

Both student posters and demos require the authors to show them throughout the conference. Posters will be posted on the walls. We will provide 40" x 60" foam boards and accessories. You are free to use different poster sizes, such as 36" x 48", 36" x 56", and 40" x 60".

8 - Program

Monday, November 14, 2022

Venue: 17th Floor, East Village, 291 St Botolph St, Boston, MA, 02115. Google Maps, Apple Maps.

9:30am - 10:00am Arrival, on-site registration and opening remarks

10:00am - 11:00am Keynote by Nicholas Rotker: Enabling the networked blue economy: collaboration, connectivity, and the acceleration of innovation.

11:00am - 11:30am Coffee break

11:30am - 12:45pm Session I

  • (11:30am - 11:55am) Comparison of Coded Modulation for Short Messages over High North Underwater Acoustic Channels

    Konstantinos Pelekanakis; Alberto Alvarez; João Alves

  • (11:55am - 12:20pm) Coexistence of Multi-Dimensional Chirp Spread Spectrum in Underwater Acoustic Networks

    Kerem Enhos; Emrecan Demirors; Deniz Unal; Tommaso Melodia

  • (12:20pm - 12:45pm) ML-based Joint Doppler Estimation and Compensation in Underwater Acoustic Communications

    Yung-Ting Hsieh; Zhuoran Qi; Dario Pompili

12:45pm - 2:15pm Lunch

2:15pm - 3:30pm Session II

  • (2:15pm - 2:40pm) Physical Layer Authentication in Underwater Acoustic Networks with Mobile Devices [invited paper]

    Paolo Casari; Francesco Ardizzon; Stefano Tomasin

  • (2:40pm - 3:05pm) Decentralized Scheduling of a Cognitive Multihop Underwater Acoustic Network with Interference Constraint [invited paper]

    Chen Peng; Urbashi Mitra

  • (3:05pm - 3:30pm) Combined Code Division and Space Division Multiple Access for Broadband Acoustic Networks

    Zhengnan Li; Diego A Cuji; Milica Stojanovic

3:30pm - 4:00pm Coffee break

4:00pm - 4:40pm Session III

  • (4:00pm – 4:20pm) VLF Mechanical Antenna Arrays for Underwater Wireless Communications [short paper]

    Cunzheng Dong; Yifan He; Xiaxin Liu; Nian Xiang Sun

  • (4:20pm – 4:40pm) FPGA Implementation of a Digital Passband Precoder for an All-Digital Underwater Acoustic Massive MIMO Transmitter [short paper]

    Jinfeng Li; Yahong Rosa Zheng

4:40pm - 5:20pm Posters (5 min each) and demo flash introductions (2 min each)

5:30pm - 7:30pm Reception. Reception will include an opening presentation “Antique Acomms” by Kenneth Rolt, as well as the best paper award announcement.

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Venue: Cabral Center, John D. O’Bryant African-American Institute, 40 Leon St, Boston, MA 02115. Google Maps, Apple Maps.

9:45am - 10:00am Arrival

10:00am - 11:00am Keynote by Mandar Chitre: Why does my acoustic modem perform so poorly today?

11:00am - 11:30am Coffee break

11:30am - 12:45pm Session IV

  • (11:30am - 11:55am) A JANUS-Based Consensus Protocol for Parametric Modulation Schemes

    Emil Wengle; John R Potter; Damiano Varagnolo; Hefeng Dong

  • (11:55am - 12:20pm) A Segmentation Framework for Acoustic Sidescan Sonar Images Using Improved Smallest Of Constant False Alarm Rate and MAP-MRF

    Yiteng Tang; Jun Liu; Shanshan Song; Wenxue Guan; Jun-Hong Cui

  • (12:20pm - 12:45pm) ASVTuw: Adaptive Scalable Video Transmission in Underwater Acoustic Multicast Networks

    Zhuoran Qi; Roberto Petroccia; Dario Pompili

12:45pm - 2:15pm Lunch

2:15pm - 3:15pm Session V

  • (2:15pm - 2:40pm) Adaptive Switching for Multimodal UWA Communications Based on RL

    Cheng Fan; Li Wei; Zhaohui Wang

  • (2:40pm - 3:00pm) Frequency Offset Compensation for Vertical Underwater Acoustic Communication with a Deep Submersible [short paper]

    Diego A Cuji; Zhengnan Li; Yukihiro Kida; Mitsuyasu Deguchi; Takuya Shimura; Milica Stojanovic

  • (3:00pm - 3:15pm) First Step Towards Low-Cost, Open-Source Optical Modem for Underwater Communication with Experimental Results [extended abstract]

    Jinzhi Cai; Scott Mayberry; Fumin Zhang

3:15pm - 3:45pm Coffee break

3:45pm - 4:50pm Session VI

  • (3:45pm - 4:10pm) An Experimental Study of Underwater Acoustic Channel Impulse Response Distributions in a River

    Li Wei; Cheng Fan; Zhaohui Wang

  • (4:10pm - 4:30pm) Plume Tracing Simulations Using Multiple Autonomous Underwater Vehicles [short paper]

    Aswanth Sampathkumar; Dmitrii Dugaev; Aijun Song; Fei Hu; Zheng Peng; Fumin Zhang

  • (4:30pm - 4:50pm) Performance Analysis of Sweep-Spread Carrier (S2C) Modulation for Underwater Communications [short paper]

    Concetta Baldone; Stefano Mangione; Daniele Croce; Ilenia Tinnirello; Chiara Petrioli

4:50pm - 5:30pm Posters (5 min each) and demo flash introductions (2 min each)

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Venue: Cabral Center, John D. O’Bryant African-American Institute, 40 Leon St, Boston, MA 02115. Google Maps, Apple Maps.

9:15am - 9:30am Arrival

9:30am - 10:30am Keynote by Michele Zorzi: Design, simulation and optimization of multimodal underwater networks

10:30am - 11:15am Session VII

  • (10:30am - 10:55am) Integration of Acoustic Communication with Underwater Autonomy: A Case Study

    Connor L Webb; Syed Murtaza Rizvi; Aswanth Sampathkumar; Brodie A Alexander; Aijun Song; Fumin Zhang

  • (10:55am - 11:15am) Harbour Porpoise Localization System Using Compact Acoustic Sensor Arrays [short paper]

    Jordin McEachern; Jean-Francois Bousquet; Shahideh Kiehbadroudinezhad; S. Bruce Martin

11:15am - 11:45am Coffee break

11:45am - 12:55pm Session VIII

  • (11:45am - 12:10pm) One- and Two-Way Travel Time Ranging in Underwater Acoustic Mobile Networks [invited paper]

    Antonio Montanari; Filippo Campagnaro; Michele Zorzi

  • (12:10pm - 12:35pm) Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding for Underwater Image Transmission

    Khizar Anjum; Zhuoran Qi; Dario Pompili

  • (12:35pm - 12:55pm) Underwater Depth Calibration Using a Commercial Depth Camera [short paper]

    Emily M Wong; Isabella Humphrey; Scott Switzer; Christopher L Crutchfield; Nathan Hui; Curt Schurgers; Ryan Kastner

12:55pm - 2:15pm Lunch and demo set-up

2:15pm - 2:30pm Demo in the Cabot swimming pool, 400 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115. Google Maps, Apple Maps.

2:45pm - 5:00pm Demos in the Cabral Center, John D. O’Bryant African-American Institute, 40 Leon St, Boston, MA 02115. Google Maps, Apple Maps.

5:00pm Closing remarks

List of Demos and Posters

  • Demo: Broadband Acoustic Beamforming for OFDM Systems; Diego A. Cuji, Zhengnan Li, Milica Stojanovic (Northeastern University)
  • Demo: MuLink: Compact Acoustic Transceivers for Underwater Environments; Brodie A. Alexander, Aijun Song (University of Alabama)
  • Demo: Underwater Communication on Smartphones and Smartwatches; Justin Chan, Tuochao Chen, Shyam Gollakota (University of Washington)
  • Demo: ASVTuw: Adaptive Scalable Video Transmission in Underwater Acoustic Networks; Zhuoran Qi, Roberto Petroccia, Dario Pompili (Rutgers University)
  • Demo: Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding for Underwater Image Transmission; Khizar Anjum, Zhuoran Qi, Dario Pompili (Rutgers University)
  • Demo: Underwater Video Transmission Through Acoustic Communication Links; Xiyuan Zhu, Fengyi Sun, Ruoyu Wang, Rosa Zheng (Lehigh University)
  • Demo: ML-based Joint Doppler Tracking and Compression in Underwater Acoustic Comms; Yung-Ting Hsieh, Zhuoran Qi, Dario Pompili (Rutgers University)
  • Demo: Battery-Free Wireless Underwater Camera; John Rademacher, Waleed Akbar, Sayed Saad Afzal, Osvy Rodriguez, Nazish Naeem, Purui Wang, Mario Doumet, Unsoo Ha, Reza Ghaffarivardavagh, Fadel Adib (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • Demo: Bi-Static Underwater Acoustic Communications; Parker Wilmoth (University of Texas at Tyler), Tariqullah Wardak (Palm Beach State College), Ynes Ineza (Texas Tech University), Steven Given, Craig Peroni, George Sklivanitis, Dimitris A. Pados (Florida Atlantic University)
  • Demo: Run-Time Reconfigurable Underwater Broadband Modem; Jared Hermans, George Sklivanitis, Dimitris A. Pados (Florida Atlantic University)
  • Demo: The Integration of u-Net and BlueBuzz Acoustic Modem; Scott Mayberry (Georgia Institute of Technology), Dimitrii Dugaev, Zheng Peng (City College of New York), Jinzhi Cai, Fumin Zhang (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  • Poster: Full-duplex Underwater Acoustic Networking; Nils Morozs, Benjamin Henson, Lu Shen, Paul D. Mitchell, Yury Zakharov (University of York, UK)
  • Poster: Towards Edge-Intelligent Wearable for Early Drowning Detection; Maliha Kabir, Teja Sree Mummadi, Prabha Sundaravadivel (University of Texas at Tyler)
  • Poster: WHOI-Keck Real-time 3D Acoustic Telescope; Ying-Tsong Lin, Matthew Palanza, Derek Buffitt, John Kemp, Stephanie Petillo, Thomas Guilment, Donald Peters, John Reine, James Lynch, (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute)

9 - Registration

The registration is done through EDAS, for paper authors as well as for those who are attending without a paper.

Registration Type Price
Regular, ACM member: $600
Regular, non-member: $700
Student, ACM member: $450
Student, non-member: $550
Non-author participant: $550

At least one of the author of each accepted full or short paper has to register by Wednesday, October 12, 2022 for the paper to be included in the Conference Proceedings. A full (regular) registration is needed for a full or short paper.

At least one of the author of each accepted extended abstract (demo/poster) has to register by Monday, October 24, 2022 for the abstract to be included in the Conference Proceedings. A registration (student or regular) is needed for an extended abstract.

Each full registration can cover at most two papers of any kind (including full papers, short papers, and extended abstracts). Each student registration can cover at most two extended abstracts.

Please follow this link for conference registration.

10 - Thank you ALL

Dear presenters, authors, guests, sponsors, volunteers and all,

We would like to thank you all for making WUWNet'22 such a wonderful event. We would also like to acknowledge the winners of the Demo competition:

  1. Demo: Battery-Free Wireless Underwater Camera; John Rademacher, Waleed Akbar, Sayed Saad Afzal, Osvy Rodriguez, Nazish Naeem, Purui Wang, Mario Doumet, Unsoo Ha, Reza Ghaffarivardavagh, Fadel Adib (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  2. Demo: Broadband Acoustic Beamforming for OFDM Systems; Diego A. Cuji, Zhengnan Li, Milica Stojanovic (Northeastern University)
  3. Demo: Underwater Communication on Smartphones and Smartwatches; Justin Chan, Tuochao Chen, Shyam Gollakota (University of Washington)

The Mario Gerla Best Paper Award went to Combined Code Division and Space Division Multiple Access for Broadband Acoustic Networks by Zhengnan Li, Diego A Cuji, and Milica Stojanovic (Northeastern University).

Thank you for all the hard work!

The WUWNet'22 Organizing Committee

11 - Travel Grant

We are pleased to announce an NSF travel grant of up to $1,000 per student. The grant particularly encourages non-authors who wish to attend the workshop, as well as members of underrepresented groups. Details of the application process can be found below.

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