UUWSN 2011 - The 5th IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Ubiquitous UnderWater Sensor Network 2011 (UUWSN 2011)

The 5th IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Ubiquitous UnderWater Sensor Network 2011

October 24-26, 2011 | Melbourne, Australia
http://www.uuwsn.org/
In conjunction with the 2011 IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2011)

Important dates

Paper submission due : May 31, 2011

Acceptance notification : June 15, 2011

Camera-ready / Author registration due : July 15, 2011

Overview / Scope

Whatever more than 70% of the surface of the earth is covered with the oceans, the oceans remain one of the least explored frontiers to be a treasure-house of resources. Oceans serve as the main arteries of transportation between continents, climate regulation, food supplier and natural resources retrieval such as oil and natural gas. For these reasons, we have significant interests in monitoring aquatic environments for environmental, scientific, commercial, safety, and military reasons. Recently, by researchers having a lot of studies for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network(UW-ASN), they try to apply sensor network concept in underwater environments to utilize in field of practical use such as ocean monitoring, resource inquiry, pollution supervision and disaster prevention.

Ubiquitous Underwater acoustic sensor network (UW-ASN) is new area of ubiquitous sensor networks in underwater environments which has challenges to be overcome such in long propagation delay resulting from low speed of sound propagation, severely limited range-dependent bandwidth, attenuation and time-varying multipath propagation. All the above distinct features of Ubiquitous Underwater acoustic sensor network (UW-ASN) give birth to new challenges areas for every level of the network protocol suite.

This workshop will support an opportunity for industry and academic professionals to discuss the latest issues and progress in the area of UW-ASN. The workshop will publish high quality papers which are closely related to the various theories and practical applications in UW-ASN. Furthermore, we hope that this workshop will provide us with a good chance to share creative ideas regarding UW-ASN with other researchers and engineers from institutions around the world.