Call For Papers - WUWNet'13

[Zheng Peng <zhengpeng [at] engr.uconn.edu>]

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Call for Papers

WUWNet 2013 - The 8th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems

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                         WUWNet’13

The 8th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems

        http://wuwnet.org/; http://wuwnet.acm.org/2013/

              November 11-13, 2013, Kaohsiung, TAIWAN

         Co-sponsored by Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

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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 three 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 relevant to underwater networks and network-related 

signal processing, communications, systems, and applications. 

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

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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, 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 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

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Paper registration: June 20, 2013

Paper submission: June 30, 2013

Acceptance notification: August 30, 2013

Camera-ready date: September 30, 2013

Extended abstract submission: August 15, 2013

Acceptance notification: September 15, 2013

Camera-ready date: September 30, 2013

ORGANIZERS

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General Chairs:

T.C. Yang (Nat. Sun Yet-sen Univ., Taiwan)

David Du (Univ. of Minnesota, USA)

Jianguo Huang (Northwestern Polytechnical Univ., China)

Program Committee Chairs: 

Payman Arabshahi (Univ. of Washington, USA)

Ryan Kastner (Univ. of California San Diego, USA)

Wen Xu (Zhejiang Univ., China) 

Local Organizing Committee Chair: 

Jin-Yuan Liu (Nat. Sun Yat-sen Univ. & Nat. Taitung Univ., Taiwan)

Finance Chair:

Jerry Zhijie Shi (Univ. of Connecticut, USA)

Publicity Chairs:

Roee Diamant (Univ. of British Columbia, Canada)

James Zheng Peng (Univ. of Connecticut, USA)

Chao Sun (Northwestern Polytechnical Univ., China)

Web Chair: 

Son Le (Univ. of Connecticut, USA)

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Zheng Peng

WUWNet'13 Publicity Chair

Research Assistant Professor

Underwater Sensor Network (UWSN) Laboratory

Computer Science & Engineering

University of Connecticut

Storrs, CT 06269-2155

Tel:    1-860-486-4215

Email:  zhengpeng [at] engr.uconn.edu

Web:    http://www.engr.uconn.edu/~zhp05001

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