WUWNet 2017 - 12th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems

12th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems
http://wuwnet.acm.org/2017/
November 6-8, 2017, Halifax, NS, Canada
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The oceans cover 71% of the Earth's surface and represent one of the least explored frontiers. Their importance to human life is paramount: They are integral to climate regulation, nutrient production, oil retrieval, and transportation. More generally, water systems 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 on, and development of real-time, in-situ sensing and actuation networking. The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners in areas relevant to underwater networks and systems. All aspects of the networking protocol stack—from the physical layer to the application layer—and 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 three days, including keynote speeches, plenary talks, technical paper presentations, and posters/demos. The scope of WUWNet covers a broad range of research directions relevant to underwater networks and network-related signal processing, communications, systems and robotics, and their applications.
Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Underwater network and system architectures
* 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.
* Networked underwater robotics and systems, including those for localization, navigation, security, communication & coordination, 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
* Underwater 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
* Interaction and integration of underwater networked systems with terrestrial and aerial networking
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Submissions for technical papers must describe original research, not published or currently under review at other workshops, conferences, journals, or magazines.
All papers will be reviewed by the program committee members 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, position papers with 2-page extended abstracts (in standard ACM conference format) can be submitted for, e.g., 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 underwater topics. Full and short paper submissions that are not accepted may be recommended to be accepted as position papers (2-page extended abstracts).
Please see the conference website for submission details, 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
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Paper registration: July 17, 2017
Paper submission: July 24, 2017
Acceptance notification: September 4, 2017
Camera-ready date: September 18, 2017
Extended abstract submission: August 14, 2017
Acceptance notification: September 4, 2017
Camera-ready date: September 18, 2017
Tutorial Proposal
Tutorial proposal submission: August 2, 2017
Acceptance notification: September 4, 2017
ORGANIZERS
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General Chairs:
Jean-Francois Bousquet, Dalhousie University
Jingdong Chen, Northwestern Polytechnical University
TPC Co-Chairs:
Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University
Fei Ji, South China University of Technology
Jun Liu, Jilin University