skip to main content
10.1145/3366486acmotherconferencesBook PagePublication PagesmobicomConference Proceedingsconference-collections
WUWNet '19: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems
ACM2019 Proceeding
Publisher:
  • Association for Computing Machinery
  • New York
  • NY
  • United States
Conference:
WUWNET'19: International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems Atlanta GA USA October 23 - 25, 2019
ISBN:
978-1-4503-7740-9
Published:
13 February 2020
In-Cooperation:
Recommend ACM DL
ALREADY A SUBSCRIBER?SIGN IN

Reflects downloads up to 03 Jan 2025Bibliometrics
Abstract

No abstract available.

extended-abstract
SLIM-Detector for Undersampling Preamble in Underwater Acoustic Communications
Article No.: 1, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/3366486.3366541

The preamble is the signal to trigger the receiver to change from the standby mode to the working mode. Preamble detection is a very important part for underwater acoustic communications, since if the preamble signal is not detected or the receiver is ...

extended-abstract
Narrowband Interference Cancellation for Index-Modulated TDS-OFDM in Underwater Acoustic Communications
Article No.: 2, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/3366486.3366521

In this extended abstract, the narrowband interference (NBI) cancellation problem is introduced for dual-PN-padded TDS-OFDM signal in underwater acoustic communications. PN sequence is used in differential measuring of interference and payload ...

extended-abstract
FIR-Filter: based Ambient Noise Implementation for Acoustic Underwater Communication Analysis
Article No.: 3, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/3366486.3366536

Underwater communication of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) has intense demands on acoustic modems caused by the continually changing signal propagation due to ambient noise, multipath propagation, and other effects of the underwater acoustic ...

extended-abstract
Comparison of Underwater Ambient Noise Based on past Two Years Data for Dongshan Offshore
Article No.: 4, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/3366486.3366538

Due to the fluctuation of underwater ambient noise on different receiving stations, we measured the Dongshan Offshore underwater ambient noise in May 2018, which can be used for optimizing transmitting power by adjusting the signal-to-noise (SNR), and ...

extended-abstract
Investigation of Typical Methods Applied to Compressive Matched Field Processing
Article No.: 5, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/3366486.3366491

Matched field processing (MFP) is widely studied in ocean acoustic localization. Its solution set is sparse since there are considerably fewer sources than replicas. Thus, we could potentially solve it as a sparse solution reconstruction problem. ...

extended-abstract
Underwater Image Denoising via AMP with Renyi Entropy
Article No.: 6, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/3366486.3366531

Approximate message passing (AMP) in wavelet domain has been widely used in image denoising. However, the AMP-based denoising method is not robust to the 'shot noise', which is dynamic and short-period in the wavelet domain. First, a preprocessing ...

extended-abstract
extended-abstract
CDMA-Based Multi-Domain Communications Network for Marine Robots
Article No.: 9, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/3366486.3366520

This paper reports on a cross-domain communication system for marine robots based on code-division multiple access (CDMA). The underwater communications channel is a difficult transmission medium due to its link quality variability which depends on ...

extended-abstract
Development of a Multi-source Energy-Harvesting Buoy for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networking Application
Article No.: 10, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/3366486.3366535

We present our ongoing work on developing a multi-source energy harvesting buoy that could be used to power underwater acoustic sensor nodes deployed on the surface of a sea or an ocean. The buoy harvests energy from three different sources; wind, solar ...

extended-abstract
Omnidirectional Surface Vehicle for Evaluating Underwater Acoustic Communication Performance in Confined Space
Article No.: 11, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/3366486.3366547

This paper presents an omnidirectional surface vehicle (OSV) developed for evaluating underwater acoustic communication performance in confined water space. The OSV features centimeter-level positioning accuracy, onboard waveform probing and generation, ...

extended-abstract
Design of a UW-IoT Network Test Platform for Shallow Water Environment
Article No.: 12, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/3366486.3366534

The Underwater Internet of Things (UW-IoT) is a novel class of Internet of Things (IoT) that enables extend the terrestrial internet to the marine environment. However, as the underwater acoustic channel poses extremely challenging difficulties for ...

extended-abstract
Sea Experiment for Mobile Underwater Acoustic Networks
Article No.: 13, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/3366486.3366530

Underwater acoustic networks (UWANs) with autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) as mobile nodes have the potential to execute many tasks flexibly in the ocean, while the mobility of UWANs introduces many challenges to the design of network protocols. In ...

research-article
Empirical Characterization of Vertical Channel in Underwater Visible Light Communication
Article No.: 14, Pages 1–8https://doi.org/10.1145/3366486.3366495

Ongoing advances in the research and development of visible light communication (VLC) systems has opened up many opportunities for using the concept of light based communication in underwater medium. Water presents a favourable medium for communication ...

research-article
Range-extending Optical Transceiver Structure for Underwater Vehicles and Robotics
Article No.: 15, Pages 1–8https://doi.org/10.1145/3366486.3366527

An underwater optical communication link provides high-speed data transfer between water surface buoys/ships and underwater vehicles for robotics applications. However, currently such optical links are severely limited by the coverage range due to the ...

short-paper
Public Access
Self-interference Characterization for In-Band Full Duplex Underwater Acoustic Communications
Article No.: 16, Pages 1–5https://doi.org/10.1145/3366486.3366510

In-band full duplex (IBFD) communications attracts increasing attention in the underwater acoustic communication community due to its potential to increase spectral efficiency. The suppression of the self-interference remains the main obstacle to ...

short-paper
Training-based Adaptive Channel Tracking for Correlated Underwater Acoustic Channels
Article No.: 17, Pages 1–5https://doi.org/10.1145/3366486.3366512

Multipath arrivals in many underwater acoustic channels are cross-correlated due to recent study. By exploiting the cross-correlation of mulipath arrivals, an efficient type of channel tracking for underwater acoustic channel is proposed by decomposing ...

research-article
Real-time Image Enhancement for Vision-based Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Navigation in Murky Waters
Article No.: 18, Pages 1–8https://doi.org/10.1145/3366486.3366523

Classic vision-based navigation solutions, which are utilized in algorithms such as Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), usually fail to work underwater when the water is murky and the quality of the recorded images is low. That is because most ...

short-paper
Compressed Underwater Acoustic Communications for Dynamic Interaction with Underwater Vehicles
Article No.: 19, Pages 1–5https://doi.org/10.1145/3366486.3366488

Underwater vehicles are utilized in various applications including underwater data-collection missions. The tethered connection constrains the mission both in distance traveled and number of vehicles that can run in the same area, while the addition of ...

short-paper
Passive Localization for Multi-AUVs by Using Acoustic Signals
Article No.: 20, Pages 1–5https://doi.org/10.1145/3366486.3366507

In order to maintain a desired formation of multiple autonomous underwater vehicles (multi-AUVs), one important task is to localize all AUVs. This paper addresses a passive localization method which uses the acoustic signals from the support ship and ...

research-article
Public Access
Miniature Underwater Animal Tags and Smart Sensors for Civil Engineering Applications
Article No.: 21, Pages 1–7https://doi.org/10.1145/3366486.3366543

This paper gives an overview of miniature underwater IoT devices recently developed for civil engineering applications: animal tags and underwater smart sensors. The PNNL (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) fish tag is a newly developed injectable ...

research-article
An Adaptive TDMA-based MAC Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks
Article No.: 22, Pages 1–8https://doi.org/10.1145/3366486.3366549

Acoustic propagation through water suffers from attenuation that increases with both signal frequency and transmission range, with time-varying long propagation delays. The power spectral density of underwater ambient noise also changes with frequency. ...

research-article
Open Access
A Named Data Networking Architecture Implementation to Internet of Underwater Things
Article No.: 23, Pages 1–8https://doi.org/10.1145/3366486.3366506

The Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) advances our ability in exploring oceans, lakes and rivers through multiple communication technologies that connect stationary and mobile nodes underwater, at the surface and in the sky. However, characteristics ...

short-paper
Pipe Data Through the Water: Stress Wave Communications Along Pipelines
Article No.: 24, Pages 1–5https://doi.org/10.1145/3366486.3366508

Offshore pipelines are the most popular man-made infrastructures that can be found undersea. Empowered by stress wave communications, these massive pipeline networks can be potentially utilized to deliver information. In this paper, we build up a stress ...

research-article
Efficient Faster-Than-Nyquist Transceiver Design for Underwater Acoustic Communications
Article No.: 25, Pages 1–5https://doi.org/10.1145/3366486.3366518

Faster-than-Nyquist (FTN) signaling is an attractive technology to improve the spectral efficiency. In this paper, an efficient FTN transceiver is proposed for underwater acoustic (UWA) communications. At the transmitter, the FTN signaling is ...

short-paper
Turbo Equalization for Underwater Acoustic Faster-than-Nyquist Signaling System
Article No.: 26, Pages 1–5https://doi.org/10.1145/3366486.3366548

Underwater acoustic communications (UAC) is the main technical means for underwater cableless transmission. Due to the serious multi-path, time-varying and Doppler effects of underwater acoustic channel (UWAC), the received signals are overlapped and ...

short-paper
On Connectivity of Wireless Underwater Sensor Networks Using MI-assisted Acoustic Distributed Beamforming
Article No.: 27, Pages 1–5https://doi.org/10.1145/3366486.3366525

In wireless underwater sensor networks (WUSNs), network connectivity is one of the most fundamental problems as it can directly impact the network lifetime and operation. Distributed beamforming can improve the connectivity by extending the ...

research-article
Public Access
An LSTM based Kalman Filter for Spatio-temporal Ocean Currents Assimilation
Article No.: 28, Pages 1–7https://doi.org/10.1145/3366486.3366522

In this paper, we present a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)-based Kalman Filter for data assimilation of a 2D spatio-temporally varying depth-averaged ocean flow field for underwater glider path planning. The data source to the filter combines both the ...

research-article
A Comparison of Kriging and Cokriging for Estimation of Underwater Acoustic Communication Performance
Article No.: 29, Pages 1–8https://doi.org/10.1145/3366486.3366515

Mobile underwater communication network nodes, such as autonomous underwater vehicles, can use estimates of underwater acoustic communication performance to anticipate where they are likely to be connected to the communication network. In this paper, we ...

short-paper
Open Access
A Stratified Linear Sound Speed Profile Simplification Method for Localization Correction
Article No.: 30, Pages 1–6https://doi.org/10.1145/3366486.3366517

Localization is important for underwater sensor networks as the validity of data and the maintenance of nodes both need location information. Because of the Snell effect caused by non-uniform distribution of sound speed, the signal propagation path is ...

Index terms have been assigned to the content through auto-classification.

Recommendations

Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 84 of 180 submissions, 47%
YearSubmittedAcceptedRate
WUWNet '18231148%
WUWNet '16755371%
WUWNet '1427933%
WUWNet '13551120%
Overall1808447%