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Overview:

Water covers 71% of the earth's surface with oceans, rivers and lakes. The world’s oceans and inland waters are of vital importance to climate regulation, agriculture, nutrient production, resource retrieval and transportation, yet as a harsh environment, they are under-explored and under-sampled. Thus there is significant interest in wireless, in-water, communications to support research, environmental monitoring, commercial activities, military operations and other applications.
Underwater wireless networking has attracted significant attention recently because of progress in physical layer research and the promise of networked systems. However, the physical challenges of underwater channels, and the complexity of different environments, require new approaches to network design. Challenges at the physical layer include frequency-dependent bandwidth and attenuation, time-varying multi-path, the low speed of sound in water, and the high levels of optical and RF attenuation.  These features impact every layer of the protocol suite in an underwater network.

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


Steering Committee:

Payman Arabshahi (University of Washington/APL)

Jun-Hong Cui (University of Connecticut, Chair)

Qilian Liang (University of Texas, Arlington)

Scott Midkiff (Virginia Tech)

Milica Stojanovic (Northeastern University)

Daniela Rus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Jie Wu (Temple University)


Advisory Board:

Ian F. Akyildiz (Georgia Institute of Technology)

David Du (University of Minnesota)

Kevin Fall (Intel Research, Berkeley)

Mario Gerla (University of California, Los Angeles)

Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California)

Robert H. Headrick (Office of Naval Research)

James Preisig (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


The Advisory Board is formed to provide visionary advices to the steering committee, strategically guiding the development of the workshop as well as the whole research area.


Industry Liaison Committee:

Josko Catipovic (Naval Undersea Warfare Center)

Lee Freitag (Massachusetts Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Chair)

Dale Green (Teledyne Benthos)

Shengli Zhou (University of Connecticut)


The Industry Liaison Committee is formed to help establish and maintain strong liaison between the workshop/community and industry, closely connecting academic research with real-world problems and issues.