5th JANUS International Workshop
20-21 November 2019, NH Hotel, La Spezia, Italy

Presentations

Day 1: “Review of current state; JANUS usage and applications” (20 November 2019)

• Welcome; Objectives; Agenda review (Roberto Petroccia, CMRE)
• JANUS Overview brief and current status(Roberto Petroccia, CMRE)
• JANUS Applications (Giovanni Zappa, CMRE)
• JANUS Interoperability Fest Recap (Roberto Petroccia, CMRE)
• JANUS in ATLAS Products - Overview & current status (Florian Schulz, ATLAS ELEKTRONIK GmbH)
• Teledyne Benthos JANUS Implementation (Ken Scussel, Teledyne Benthos)
• Integration experience of EvoLogics software defined modem shell with Janus-C implementation (Oleksiy Kebkal, EvoLogics)
• Wärtsilä JANUS Implementation (Knuth Ehmcke, Wärtsilä)
• Autonomy to support communications, and communications to support Autonomy (Alexander Hamilton, DSTL)
• JANUS and the use of interoperable protocols in autonomous ASW (Sam Holdcrof, DSTL)
• JANUS in operational scenarios (DYMH17 and REP(MUS)19) (Roberto Petroccia, CMRE)

Day 2: “Moving JANUS forward” (21 November 2019)

• Welcome; Objectives; Agenda review (Roberto Petroccia, CMRE)
• Wsense JANUS modem: from underwater comms to networking (Chiara Petrioli, W-Sense)
• Moving JANUS forward (Roberto Petroccia, CMRE)
• Using JANUS underwater AIS service for collision avoidance (Fausto Ferreira, CMRE)
• Wärtsilä: proposal for cargo length coding (Michael Sieger, Wärtsilä)
• Wärtsilä: proposal for SMS application (Michael Sieger, Wärtsilä)
• Open Discussion Topics:
  • New Applications (Roberto Petroccia, CMRE)
  • Management of Bit Allocation Tables
• Extending JANUS for faster bit rates (Konstantinos Pelekanakis, CMRE)
• Open Discussion Topics:
  • JANUS Waveform Extensions
  • New Frequency Bands
  • Compliance and Certification
  • Software Architectures in support of JANUS and JANUS-like initiatives
  • JANUS Wiki and Other Community Tools
  • Next Steps and Community Activities
• Wrap-up