[Tccc] CFP: WUWNet'12 - The 7th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems
Roberto Petroccia
petroccia
Thu Apr 19 11:32:08 EDT 2012
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?.
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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)
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Roberto Petroccia, Ph.D.
Dipartimento di Informatica
"La Sapienza" University of Rome
113, via Salaria 00198 Rome - Italy
tel. +39 06 4991 8352
e-mail: petroccia at di.uniroma1.it
webpage: http://reti.dsi.uniroma1.it/eng/petroccia/
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