WCNEE 2017 - 1st IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Communications and Networking in Extreme Environments (IEEE WCNEE)

Extreme communication environments such as underwater, underground, and intrabody have been attracting growing interest from both academia and industry in an effort to conquer the last wireless communications frontiers. Novel wireless communication architectures and networking protocols for extreme communication environments enable a rich body of applications with unprecedented societal impact.
The goal of the workshop is to unveil the latest wireless technology developments, from the physical layer all the way to the application layer in realizing underwater, underground, and intrabody communication networks with a focus on bridging the gaps between theory, algorithms, and practical system implementations.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Communications and Networking Protocols
Energy efficient protocols and routing techniques
Cognitive networking
Cooperative communications
Cross-layer protocol designs
Multiple-access and medium access control and sharing
Low-power wireless communications
Ad-hoc, mesh, and linear sensor networks
Distributed sensing
Systems and Applications
Modeling, simulation, and experimental studies
Tools, testbeds, and deployment issues
Software defined systems and testbed designs
Transceiver designs
Internet of (underwater, underground, and intrabody) things
Autonomous mobile or static (implantable in a living tissue or in a reservoir) transceiver and system designs
Health and environmental concerns for next-generation applications
Future arising challenges
Signal Processing and Channel Modeling
Signal models
Sensor-array processing
Physical layer communication schemes
Modulation and coding techniques
Receiver design
Signal filtering and detection
Signal propagation and attenuation models (absorption, scattering, fading, multipath)
Measurement and characterization (modeling) of real-world aspects of wireless (underwater, intrabody, underground) networks
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Submission Instructions
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Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11 format. Accepted papers will be published in the combined INFOCOM 2017 Workshop proceedings and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore. Submitted papers may not have been previously published in or under consideration for publication in another journal or conference. The reviews will be single blind. Manuscripts should be submitted as PDF files via EDAS.
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Important Dates
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Submission Deadline: January 10th, 2017
Author Notification: February 22nd, 2017
Final Manuscript Due: March 12th, 2017
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Technical Program Committee
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Ozgur Akan (Koc University, Turkey)
Payman Arabshahi (University of Washington, USA)
Stefano Basagni (Northeastern University, USA)
Ballard Blair (The MITRE Corporation, USA)
Aggelos Bletsas (Technical University of Crete, Greece)
Wolfgang Gerstacker (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
Josep Miquel Jornet (University at Buffalo, USA)
George Karystinos (Technical University of Crete, Greece)
Nicholas Mastronarde (University at Buffalo, USA)
Chiara Petrioli (University of Rome, La Sapienza)
Massimiliano Pierobon (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
Dario Pompili (Rutgers University, USA)
Milica Stojanovic (Northeastern University, USA)
Zhi Sun (University at Buffalo, USA)
Mehmet Vuran (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
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Workshop Organizing Committee
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Dr. Stella N. Batalama (SUNY at Buffalo, USA)
Dr. Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University, USA)
Dr. Dimitris A. Pados (SUNY at Buffalo, USA)
Dr. Panos P. Markopoulos (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
George Sklivanitis (SUNY at Buffalo, USA)
Emrecan Demirors (Northeastern University, USA)
G. Enrico Santagati (Northeastern University, USA)