Water systems are of vital importance to life on earth and commerce, and WUWNet is the premier venue for early work bringing real-time, in-situ sensing and actuation to this aquatic world. The workshop will span one and a half days, including presentations of technical papers, a keynote talk, and a poster/demo session.

The scope of the WUWNet workshop covers a broad range of research directions related to underwater systems, including communications, networking, system integration, and vehicle coordination.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Underwater network architectures 
• Efficient underwater communications, with techniques from physical layer to application 
• Cooperative underwater communications, including, PHY, MAC, routing, and data transfer 
• Services for underwater systems, such as localization, time synchronization, reliable data transfer, security
• Subsea communication for underwater vehicles (gliders, submersibles, etc.) 
• Coordination algorithms for underwater vehicles and sensor nodes, or human operator interaction
• Modeling, simulation, and testbeds for underwater systems
• Applications that broadly address subsea networks, including coordinated vehicle systems 
• Experimental results from underwater networking trials 
• Application requirements for underwater networks presented by end users