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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
> -----------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 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
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> WWW: http://www.ece.rutgers.edu/~pompili
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