ECE Students & Professor Win Best Paper at International Conference
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ECE Ph.D. students Emrecan Demirors and G. Enrico Santagati, ECE MS student Bharatwaj G. Shankar and their advisor, ECE Associate Professor Tommaso Melodia, were coauthors of a paper that received the “Best Student Paper Award” at the 10th ACM International Conference on UnderWater Networks and Systems (WUWNet’15) last week in Washington, D.C. The article, titled “SEANet: A Software-Defined Acoustic Networking Framework for Reconfigurable Underwater Networking,” presented a prototype of a new high-data-rate software-defined reconfigurable underwater acoustic modem.
Emrecan Demirors and Professor Tommaso Melodia also received the “Best Demo Award — Second Prize” at the same conference for their demonstration titled “Real-time Video Streaming in Underwater Acoustic Networks.”
ACM WUWNet is recognized as the premier venue for research and development bringing real-time, in-situ sensing and actuation to the underwater world. ACM WUWNet brings together researchers and practitioners in areas relevant to underwater networks and systems to present state-of-the-art research and development, exchange ideas and experiences, and facilitate interactions and collaborations.
For more information about the conference, please visit WUWNet’15.