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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
> ****************
>
> 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)
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>
> 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
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>
> 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)
>
>
>
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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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