[Tccc] Deadline approaching - WUWNet'12 - The 7th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems

Roberto Petroccia petroccia
Fri Jul 13 08:01:10 EDT 2012


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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?.



- Best papers accepted to WUWNet will be fast-tracked to a Special  
Issue of Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ad-hoc-networks/

- Paper registration:  July 9, 2012

- Paper submission: July 16, 2012

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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: July 9, 2012
Paper submission: July 16, 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)


-- 
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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