> ----------------------------------------------------- > The Third ACM International Workshop on > UnderWater Networks (WUWNet 2008) > http://wuwnet08.engr.uconn.edu/ > > In conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2008 > September 15, 2008 > San Francisco, California, USA > > Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE and IEEE OES > ----------------------------------------------------- > > > Overview & Scope > **************** > > Water covers 71% of the earth's surface with oceans, rivers > and lakes. Water systems are of vital importance to climate > regulation, agriculture, nutrient production, oil retrieval > and transportation, etc., yet they represent one of the least > explored frontiers. As such, there is significant interest > in real-time, in-situ monitoring of aquatic environments for > scientific, environmental, commercial, safety and military > applications. > > Underwater networking has attracted strong attention in the > recent a few years. Although there is a long history of > underwater acoustic communication, many new applications > requires networking of multiple nodes, either static or mobile, > and potentially over multiple hops. The physical challenges of > acoustic channel and the complexity of diverse aquatic environments > require us to completely re-think network design for underwater > environments. Some major challenges at the physical layer and > higher layers include the severely limited range-dependent > bandwidth and attenuation, extensive time-varying multi-path > propagation, the low speed of sound in water that is 5 orders > of magnitude less than that of radio waves in air. In addition, > underwater nodes are neither inexpensive nor easy to deploy. > These distinct features yield grand challenges to every layer > of the protocol suite in underwater networks. > > The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and > practitioners in areas relevant to underwater networks. Thus, > all layers of the protocol stack, from the physical layer to > application, will be represented. Its objective is to serve > as a forum for presenting state of the art research, exchanging > ideas and experiences, and facilitating interaction and collaboration. > The workshop will span one day, including presentations of > technical papers, keynote speeches, and a poster/demo session. > Submissions for technical papers should describe original research, > not published or currently under review for other workshops, > conferences, or journals. > > Topics include, but are not limited to: > > - Network architecture design > - Efficient acoustic communications > - Cooperative underwater communications > - Medium access control > - Routing and forwarding > - Reliable data transfer > - Security and robustness > - In-network data storage > - Resource management (energy, bandwidth) > - Localization and time synchronization > - Data fusion, dissemination, tracking > - Network modeling and simulations > - Network planning and deployment > - New applications utilizing underwater networks > - Testbed and systems: real-world experience > > > Submission Guidelines > ********************* > > The workshop accepts both regular full papers and short papers. > Short papers present new ideas or new visions that may influence > the direction of future research, yet they may be less mature > than full papers. While an exhaustive evaluation of the proposed > ideas is not necessary, insight and in-depth understanding of > the issues is expected. Short papers will be reviewed the same > way as full papers by the technical program committee and will > be published in the workshop proceedings. > > All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Authors > should prepare a PDF or PostScript version of their papers. > The page limit for full papers is 8 pages, and that for short > papers is 4 pages. Both types of papers should be submitted > using the same submission procedure. However, the title of > short papers must start with the word "Short Papers:", i.e., > "Short Papers: Rest of the Title." All papers should use font > size that is not smaller than 10 points, and must fit properly > on US letter-sized paper (8.5x11 inches) with 1-inch margins. > Detailed instructions on the paper submission procedure and > format will be available on the workshop web pages. > > Submitted papers will be judged based on their quality and > novelty through a rigorous peer-reviewing process. All accepted > papers will appear in the workshop proceedings. Some papers that > cannot be included in the main workshop program may be accepted > as extended abstracts. If the authors agree, these papers will > be included in the proceedings as 2-page extended abstracts and > will be presented at the workshop in a poster session. The call > for posters and demos will be announced separately. > > > Important dates (Tentative) > *************************** > > Submission deadline: May 9, 2008 > Acceptance notification: June 19, 2008 > Camera-ready version due: July 7, 2008 > Workshop date: September 15, 2008 > > > Workshop Organizing Committee > ***************************** > > General Chair: > > Milica Stojanovic (MIT/WHOI) > > Technical Program Co-Chairs: > > Phil Schniter (The Ohio State University) > Wei Ye (University of Southern California) > > WUWNet Steering Committee: > > Ian F. Akyildiz (Georgia Institute of Technology) > Jun-Hong Cui (University of Connecticut, Chair) > David Hung-Chang Du (University of Minnesota) > Kevin Fall (Intel Research, Berkeley) > Robert H. Headrick (Office of Naval Research) > John Heidemann (University of Southern California) > Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California) > Milica Stojanovic (MIT/WHOI) > > Posters/Demos and Awards Chair: > > Shengli Zhou (University of Connecticut) > > Finance Chair: > > Payman Arabshahi (University of Washington) > > Publicity/Publications Chair: > > Dario Pompili (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) > > Local Arrangements and Registration Co-Chairs: > > Quiliang Liang (University of Texas at Arlington) > Shu Xiao (Cisco, Inc.) > > > Technical Program Committee (incomplete) > **************************************** > > Payman Arabshahi (University of Washington) > Mandar Chitre (National University of Singapore) > Jun-Hong Cui (University of Connecticut) > Tolga Duman (Arizona State University) > Kevin Fall (Intel Research, Berkeley) > Lee Freitag (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) > Joao Pedro Gomes (Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa) > John Heidemann (University of Southern California) > Dan Kilfoyle (Science Applications International Corporation) > Scott Midkiff (Virginia Tech/NSF) > Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California) > Mehul Motani (National University of Singapore) > Dario Pompili (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) > Robert Qiu (Tennessee Technological University) > Volkan Rodoplu (University of California, Santa Barbara) > Daniel Rouseff (Applied Physics Lab, University of Washington) > Daniela Rus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) > Curt Schurgers (University of California, San Diego) > Geoffrey Xie (Naval Postgraduate School) > Michele Zorzi (University of Padova, Italy) > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dario Pompili, Ph.D. > Assistant Professor > Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering > CoRE Building - Room 615 > Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey > 96 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854 > Phone: (732) 445-6400 ext. 202 > Fax: (732) 445-0593 > Email1: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Email2: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > WWW: http://www.ece.rutgers.edu/~pompili > ------------------------------------------------------------------- >
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