WUWNet’13Kaohsiung, Taiwan
November 11‐13, 2013
Compiled by Information System Chair, Aijun Song
General Chairs
• Prof. T.C. Yang, Prof. David Du, and Prof. Jianguo Huang
Overall• EIGHTH ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems
• First time outside of the United States
Sponsors (below) and supports (right)
Program highlights• Seven technical sessions over three days• Keynote on Nov 11 by Professor Arthur Baggeroer from MIT• Keynote on Nov 12 by Professor William Kuperman from SIO• Plenary talk on Nov 13 by Professor Jen‐Hwa Guo from National Taiwan University, Taiwan• Four invited papers to showcase new tools, instruments, and experiments• Panel on standardization of underwater acoustic communications and networking• Four selected papers fast‐tracked to a joint Special Issue of Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) and Physical Communication (Elsevier).
• A work‐in‐progress poster/demo session• Five‐minute oral presentation for each of the extended abstracts/position papers as a new format to facilitate discussions
• Significant funding support for student participation from different regions• Multiple awards: Best student paper awards, best demo award, and outstanding service award• Strong support from local hosts in meeting facility, social events, transportation, and logistics (delicious meals and supportive personnel)
Accepted Submissions• Submission: 55• Accepted total: 46• 11 full papers: 10 regular and 1 invited• 16 short papers: 13 regular and 3 invited• 19 extended abstracts
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By Region• United States: 12• China‐Mainland: 24• Taiwan: 5• Europe: 3• Others (Japan and Australia): 2
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Papers from Regions
Participants on the site (Registration)• So far, 84 in total
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Onsite Participation
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Onsite Participation
United States China‐Mainland TaiwanEurope Others
Intended to draw participation from Asian institutions, in addition to our traditional sources (the Untied states and Europe)
Gratitude to our host, National Sun Yat‐sen University, Taiwan, for generous support in meeting facility, social events, transportation, and logistics (delicious meals and supportive personnel)• National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan• National Kaohsiung Marine University, Taiwan• National Kaohsiung University of Applied Science, Taiwan• National Taiwan University, Taiwan• National Taitung University, Taiwan
Strong local support
Multiple universities/institutions from China‐Mainland• Harbin Engineering University• Institute of Acoustics, State Key Laboratory of Acoustics, Beijing• Northwestern Polytechnical University• Ocean University of China• South China University of Technology• Tsinghua University• Xiamen University• Zhejiang University
Participation from Australia, Indonesia, Japan
• Indonesia: Electronic Engineering Polytechnic Institute• Japan: Marine Acoustics Research Laboratory, Tokyo• Australia: University of New South Wales
Keynotes• Keynote on November 11: “Acoustic Telemetry for the Last Decade and Challenges for the Next One” by Professor Arthur Baggeroer from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Keynote on November 12: “Acoustic Model and Data‐Based Signal Processing” by Professor William Kuperman from Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Panel discussions• Toward Standardization in Underwater Acoustic Communications and Networking
• Coordinator: Payman Arabshahi, T.C. Yang; • Panelists: Jun‐Hong Cui (remote participation via skype), David Du, Dale Green, James Preisig, and Fuming Zhang
Work‐in‐progress posters/demo session
Student travel grants
• Generous supports from• U.S. Office of Naval Research Global• National Research Council of Taiwan • National Taitung University, Taiwan• Aquatic Sensor Network Technology LLC, USA
• Student travel/participation support (by regions)• United States: 4• China Mainland: 5• Taiwan: ~10
Awards
• Best Student Paper award:• Yifan Sun (State University of New York at Buffalo), “The Internet Underwater: An IP‐compatible Protocol Stack for Commercial Undersea Modems”
• Le Son (University of Connecticut, USA), “PMAC: A Real‐world Case Study of Underwater MAC”
• Best demo award:• Cost‐effective Underwater Communication using Six‐switch Morse Code, by Ming‐Che Hsieh and Chen‐Sheng Lin (National Taitung University, Taiwan, R.O.C.)
• Outstanding service award• Aijun Song from the University of Delaware
Journal publication venue (new)
• Four selected papers fast‐tracked to a joint Special Issue of Ad Hoc Networks(Elsevier) and Physical Communication (Elsevier)
• PMAC: A Real‐world Case Study of Underwater MAC [Full Paper]Son N Le (University of Connecticut, USA); Yibo Zhu (University of Connecticut, USA); Zheng Peng (University of Connecticut, USA); Jun‐Hong Cui (University of Connecticut, USA); Zaihan Jiang (U.S. Naval Research Lab, USA)
• Joint Time Synchronization and Tracking for Mobile Underwater Systems [Full Paper]JinwangYi (Xiamen University, P.R. China); Diba Mirza (University of California, San Diego, USA); Curt Schurgers (Earth, USA); Ryan Kastner (University of California, San Diego, USA)
• Tracking Time‐varying Correlated Underwater Acoustic Channels in the Signal Subspace [Full paper]Shan‐Ho Huang (National Sun Yat‐sen University, Taiwan); T.C. Yang (National Sun Yat‐Sen University, Taiwan); Jenho Tsao (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
• Iterative Estimation of the Time‐Varying Underwater Acoustic Channel Using Basis Expansion Models [Full paper]Hua Yu (South China University of Technology, P.R. China); Aijun Song (University of Delaware, USA); Mohsen Badiey (University of Delaware, USA); Fang‐JiongChen (South China University of Technology, P.R. China); Fei Ji (South China University of Technology, P.R. China)
See you at next WUWNet!
Photo from Prof. Shun-Hsyung Chang
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