WUWNet 2006

http://wuwnet.engr.uconn.edu/

Date of event: September 29, 2006
Submission deadline: June 30, 2006

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      The First ACM International Workshop on
         UnderWater Networks (WUWNet 2006)
           http://wuwnet.engr.uconn.edu/

        In conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2006
                 September 29, 2006
           Los Angeles, California, USA
            Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE
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Overview & Scope:
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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. As such, there is significant
interest in monitoring aquatic environments for scientific,
environmental, commercial, safety, and military reasons.
While there is a need for highly precise, real-time, fine
grained spatio-temporal sampling of the ocean environment,
current methods such as remote telemetry and sequential
local sensing cannot satisfy current needs, let alone
future needs. The notion of an underwater network is
relatively new due to the lack of maturity of underwater
acoustic communication. However, networks are necessary
in order to achieve the monitoring goals noted above. The
physical challenges of acoustic underwater communication
require us to completely re-think how a network should be
designed and deployed in this environment. Challenges to
be overcome by underwater acoustic modem and network
designers include: severely limited range-dependent bandwidth
and attenuation, extensive time-varying multipath propagation,
and low speed of sound propagation in water resulting in long
propagation delays. Moreover, a unique feature of underwater
networks is that the environment is constantly mobile, naturally
causing the node passive mobility. All the above distinct
features of underwater networks yield new challenges for every
level of the network protocol suite.

The goal of the proposed workshop is to bring together
researchers and practioners in areas relevant to underwater
networks. Thus, many layers of the "stack" from the physical
layer to the application layer will be represented. The objective
is to serve as a forum for presenting state of the art research,
exchanging ideas and experiences, and facilitating interaction
and collaboration.

The WUWNet workshop will span one day, including presentations
of technical papers, tutorial/survey papers, a panel session and
a poster/demo session.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:



Submission Guidelines
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All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Papers must
be in PDF format, no longer than 8 pages for regular papers (10
pages for tutorial/survey papers and 2 pages for poster/demo papers),
and must follow ACM single-space, double-column format, 10 pt.
Submitted papers will be judged based on their quality and novelty
through a rigorous review process. Over-length papers will be
automatically rejected. Detailed instructions for paper submission
will be posted on the workshop website.


Important Dates
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Submission deadline: June 30, 2006
Acceptance notification: July 28, 2006
Camera-ready version: August 11, 2006
Workshop date: September 29, 2006


Organizing Committee
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General Co-chairs:

Jun-Hong Cui (University of Connecticut)
Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California)

Technical Program Co-chairs:

Kevin Fall (Intel Research, Berkeley)
Milica Stojanovic (MIT/WHOI)