Call for Papers

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

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
• Power management
• Data storage and management
• Localization and synchronization
• Data fusion, dissemination, tracking
• Network modeling and simulations
• Capacity analysis
• New techniques for aquatic applications
• New applications for underwater networks
 

Submission Guidelines

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 4 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. For detailed instructions for paper submission, please check here.

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: June 30, 2006  Extended to July 7, 2006 (FIRM)
Acceptance notification: July 28, 2006
Camera-ready: August 11, 2006  Changed to August 4, 2006 (FIRM)
Workshop date: Sep. 29, 2006  Changed to Sep. 25, 2006

Please also check the PDF version of this CFP.