Overview of CWUWNet:

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 critical in order to achieve the monitoring goals noted above. The physical challenges of acoustic underwater communication and the complexity of diverse aquatic environments require us to completely re-think how a network should be deployed in underwater environments. Challenges to be overcome by underwater acoustic modem and network designers include: severely limited range-dependent bandwidth and attenuation, extensive time-varying multi-path propagation, and low speed of sound propagation in water resulting in long propagation delays. Moreover, a unique feature of underwater networks is that nodes can passively move due to water currents and dispersion. All the above distinct features of underwater networks yield grand challenges for every level of the network protocol suite.

The goal of CWUWNet 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.

Organization Committees:

General Co-chairs:

• Zhongwen Guo ( Ocean University of China, China )

• Feng Hong (Ocean University of China, China)

Call for Papers:

The workshop will span one day, including presentations of technical papers, keynote speeches, a panel session and a poster/demo session. Submissions for technical papers should describe original research, not published or currently under review for other workshops, conferences, or journals.

Important Dates

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Network architecture design
• Efficient acoustic communications
• Cooperative underwater communications
• Medium access control
• Routing and forwarding
• Reliable data transfer
• Security and robustness
• Data storage and management
• Power and resource management
• Localization and synchronization
• Data fusion, dissemination, tracking
• Network modeling and simulations
• Network planning and deployment
• New techniques for aquatic applications
• New applications for underwater networks
• Testbed and systems: real-world experiences and lessons
 

Submission Guidelines

All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Papers must be in PDF format, no longer than 10 pages for full papers (4 pages for short papers). Submitted papers will be judged based on their quality and novelty through a rigorous review process. All accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings. Over-length papers will be automatically rejected.

See style files and instructions for details. All papers must be submitted in PDF format. To submit a paper,Please send your papers by email at cwuwnet@gmail.com.