Demo & Poster Session
The WUWNet'26 Demo and Poster Session provides an interactive forum for researchers, students, engineers, and industry practitioners to present emerging ideas, ongoing research, preliminary results, working prototypes, experimental platforms, and real-world underwater technologies.
The session aims to encourage direct interaction, early feedback, technical discussion, and collaboration within the underwater networks and systems community. Submissions from academia, industry, government laboratories, and joint academic–industry teams are welcome.
Topics of Interest
Submissions are welcome on all topics relevant to WUWNet. We particularly encourage submissions presenting:
- Work in progress and preliminary research results;
- Working prototypes and proof-of-concept systems;
- Experimental platforms, testbeds, simulators, and software tools;
- New datasets and reproducible research resources;
- Results and observations from field experiments or sea trials;
- Innovative applications of underwater networking, sensing, and robotic technologies.
Submissions are not expected to provide the same level of completeness as full research papers. However, each submission should present a clearly motivated problem, a technically meaningful full approach, and sufficient results, implementation details, or analysis to support productive discussion at the conference.
Submission Instructions
Authors wishing to participate in either the Poster or Demo Session must submit an extended abstract of no more than two pages, including figures, tables, and references, through the WUWNet'26 EDAS submission system. The extended abstract should clearly indicate whether the submission is intended for the Poster or the Demo Session.
Poster submissions may present work in progress, preliminary results, emerging ideas, or recent research outcomes. Demo submissions should describe a working prototype, operational system, software platform, experimental testbed, together with the planned demonstration. Photos of the demo system are encouraged to include in the extended abstract.
Recognizing that underwater equipment may be difficult to transport or operate at the conference venue, demo submissions based on recorded sea trials, hardware-in-the-loop systems, remote experimental facilities, digital twins, or interactive simulations are also welcome.
Authors of WUWNet'26 full papers are also encouraged to submit an extended abstract and present their work in the Poster Session.
Presentation Requirements
At least one author of each accepted extended abstract for Poster or Demo must register for WUWNet'26 and attend the conference in person. Each accepted extended abstract must be presented in the designated Demo and Poster Session and represented by a physical poster. Authors of accepted Poster and Demo submissions may also request for an oral presentation in the WUWNet'26 technical program; this does not replace the required Poster/Demo presentation or affect eligibility for the WUWNet'26 Best Poster/Demo Award.
Important Dates
| Milestone | Date / Details |
|---|---|
| Extended abstract submission through EDAS | 12 October 2026 |
| Notification of acceptance | 31 October 2026 |
Demo and Poster Chairs
- Lu Ma (Harbin Engineering University)
- Yusha Liu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)
For questions regarding extended-abstract submissions, poster presentations, live demonstrations, or equipment requirements, please contact the Demo and Poster Chairs at yusha.liu@uestc.edu.cn.