[Tccc] CFP: Joint Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks and Physical Communication SI on Advances in Underwater Communications and Networks

Dario Pompili pompiliatcac.rutgers.edu
Sun Jul 21 21:30:29 EDT 2013



                                 Special Issue on Advances in Underwater 
Communications and Networks  

http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ad-hoc-networks/call-for-papers/advances-underwater-communications-networks/

http://www.journals.elsevier.com/physical-communication/call-for-papers/advances-underwater-communications-networks/

Wireless acoustic communication is the typical physical-layer technology 
underwater because of the high medium absorption of radio frequencies and of 
the scattering problem affecting optical waves. As of today, however, acoustic 
communication solutions support only delay-tolerant low-bandwidth monitoring 
applications. Yet, there is an increasing need to enable near-real-time 
acquisition and processing of heterogeneous data from mobile and static ocean 
exploration platforms. Reaching this goal will support a number of applications 
for scientific, environmental, commercial, and military purposes including, but 
not limited to, estimating concentration of water pollutants, monitoring 
dynamic oceanographic phenomena (such as phytoplankton growth and rate of 
photosynthesis, salinity and temperature gradient), preventing disasters by 
issuing tsunami warnings, assisting navigation as well as performing offshore 
exploration and tactical surveillance. Due to the unique characteristics of the 
underwater environment, however, existing communication and networking 
solutions developed for terrestrial wireless networks cannot be applied 
directly to advance underwater communications and networks.

This joint Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks and Physical Communication special issue 
aims at soliciting original manuscripts on recent developments and new 
solutions considering the unique characteristics of the underwater environment 
and, in general, on all aspects of underwater communications and networks such 
as cooperative spectrum sharing and resource allocation techniques, new 
transport-, network- and link-layer protocols, theoretical and performance 
bounds on the operation of multihop networks, secure and jamming-free 
underwater communications, and adaptive sampling schemes using autonomous 
underwater vehicles. 

Also, manuscripts with experimental evaluations and implementations on testbeds 
are sought, reporting findings on the limitations and challenges faced in the 
actual deployment of underwater communications and networks. The objective of 
this joint special issue is to bring together stateof-the-art research 
contributions, tutorials, and position papers that address these key aspects.

Original manuscripts describing completed and unpublished work not currently 
under review by any other journal/magazine/conference are therefore solicited.

Potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Optical, acoustic, and electromagnetic communications for underwater networks
MAC-, routing-, and transport-layer protocols for underwater communications
Underwater sensor network security
Underwater sensor network architecture
Network coverage and node placement
Energy efficiency and power control
Target tracking using underwater sensor networks
Modeling and simulation in underwater sensor networks
Synchronization and localization for underwater communications
Cooperative communications in underwater sensor networks
Adaptive sampling using autonomous underwater vehicles
Mobility models and mobility control of underwater vehicles
Submission Instructions
Prospective Authors should follow the Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) journal 
manuscript format described at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/adhoc

Please select Special Issue: Advancesin Underwater Communications and 
Networks when you reach the Article Type step in the submission process. 
Papers must be in single-column format, double-spaced, use at least 11pt fonts, 
and should not exceed 25 pages including references.

Important Dates
Submission deadline: January 31, 2014
First-round notification date: April 1, 2014
First-round revision date: May 1, 2014
Second-round notification date: June 1, 2014
Camera ready due: June 15, 2014

Guest Editors

Prof. Dario Pompili
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University, New 
Brunswick, NJ
Email: pomp... at ece.rutgers.edu
http://www.ece.rutgers.edu/~pompili

Prof. Tommaso Melodia
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, State University of New York (SUNY) at 
Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Email: tmelo... at eng.buffalo.edu
http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/wnesl/tmelodia.php

Prof. Liuqing Yang
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort 
Collins, CO
Email: lqy... at engr.colostate.edu
http://www.engr.colostate.edu/~lqyang

Prof. Chiara Petrioli
Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita La Sapienza, ITALY
E-mail: petri... at di.uniroma1.it
http://senseslab.di.uniroma1.it


_______________________________________________
IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications
(TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication.
Tccc at lists.cs.columbia.edu
https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
 




More information about the TCCC mailing list