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> 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
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>
> Overview & Scope
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>
> 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
>
>
> Important dates
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>
>Registration deadline: September 5, 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
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>
> Shengli Zhou (University of Connecticut)
>
> Finance Chair
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>
> Payman Arabshahi (University of Washington)
>
> Publicity/Publications Chair
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>
> Dario Pompili (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)
>
> Local Arrangements and Registration Co-Chairs
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>
> Qiliang Liang (University of Texas at Arlington) Shu Xiao (Cisco,
> Inc.)
>
>
> Technical Program Committee
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>
> 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)
>
>
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> 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
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