WUWNet 2012 - The 7th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems

WUWNet’12: The 7th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems

http://wuwnet.org/

November 5-6, 2012

Los Angeles, California, USA

Note that we are now “The International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems”, but we are still “WUWNet”.



CALL FOR PAPERS

The oceans cover 71% of the Earth's surface and represent one of the least explored frontiers; yet, the oceans are integral to climate regulation, nutrient production, oil retrieval, and transportation. Also, water systems in general are of vital importance to life on Earth and commerce. For these reasons, there is significant interest in monitoring aquatic environments for scientific, environmental, commercial, safety, and military purposes.
WUWNet is the premier venue for research and development bringing real-time, in-situ sensing and actuation to this aquatic world. The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners in areas relevant to underwater networks and systems. Thus, many aspects of the networking protocol stack - from the physical layer to the application layer and the various system issues - will be represented at this conference. The objective is to serve as a forum for presenting state-of-the-art research and development, for exchanging ideas and experiences, and for facilitating interactions and collaborations.

The conference will span two days, including presentations of keynote speeches, plenary talks, technical papers, and posters/demos. The scope of the WUWNet conference covers a broad range of research directions related to underwater systems including communications, networking, system integration, and vehicle coordination. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Underwater network and system architectures
- Efficient underwater communications (including acoustic, optical, RF, and wired, etc.), with techniques from the physical layer to the application layer
- Underwater acoustic modeling and signal processing
- Cooperative underwater communications, including, PHY, MAC, routing, and data transfer, etc.
- Services for underwater systems, such as localization, synchronization, navigation, security, etc.
- Communication & coordination for underwater vehicles and sensor nodes, or human operator interaction
- Coordinated energy harvesting systems and power systems for underwater networks and systems
- Energy-efficient algorithms, and protocol design for underwater networks, as well as signal/image processing and communication systems
- Operating system and middleware support for underwater networks and systems
- Applications that broadly address underwater networks and systems, including coordinated underwater vehicles
- Modeling, simulation, and testbeds for underwater systems and platforms
- Experimental results from underwater networking, signal/image processing and communications field trials
- Application requirements for underwater networks, signal/image processing and communication systems presented by end users

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submissions for technical papers must describe original research, not published or currently under review for other workshops, conferences, journals, or magazines.

All papers will be reviewed by the program committee for novelty and contribution. The workshop accepts full and short papers. Short papers may represent less mature work than full papers, or may contain new ideas for future research. Full papers should be more complete in their treatment of the topic. Paper submission will be handled electronically. Authors should prepare a PDF version of their papers. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages, and that for short papers is 5 pages in standard ACM conference format.

In addition, 2-page extended abstracts (in standard ACM conference format) can be submitted describing interesting intermediate results of undergoing research, promising progresses, educational overview on the state of the art in this field, and insightful analysis of the historical or futuristic developments on various topics.
Please see the conference website for definitive formatting guidelines and sample templates. All accepted papers and extended abstracts are subject to the deadlines specified below and will be included in the conference proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper registration: June 20, 2012
Paper submission: June 30, 2012
Acceptance notification: August 30, 2012
Camera-ready date: September 30, 2012

Extended abstract submission: August 15, 2011
Acceptance notification: September 15, 2011
Camera-ready date: September 30, 2012

ORGANIZERS
General Chairs:
Mario Gerla (Univ. of California, Los Angeles, USA)
T.C. Yang (Nat. Sun Yet-sen Univ., Taiwan)

Technical Program Committee Chairs:
Liuqing Yang (Colorado State Univ., USA)
Tommaso Melodia (SUNY Buffalo, USA)

Publicity Chairs:
Wei Cheng (Univ. of California, Davis, USA)
Roberto Petroccia (‘Sapienza’ Univ. of Rome, Italy)
Fengzhong Qu (Zhejiang University, China)

Travel Grant Chairs:
Payman Arabshahi (Univ. of Washington, USA)
Dario Pompili (Rutgers Univ., USA)