Call for Papers

WUWNet brings together outstanding researchers and entrepreneurs from around the world to share cutting-edge technological achievements in the fields of underwater communications, networks, and systems. The conference covers a wide range of areas including underwater communication and networking, underwater sensing and detection, underwater robotics, and marine engineering and equipment. Initiated in the United States in 2006, WUWNet has been successfully held for 18 editions and has become a flagship global conference in the field of underwater communications, networks, and systems. This conference will focus on modern marine technology development through keynote speeches, academic presentations, scientific discussions, and achievement exhibitions. We look forward to collaborating with global peers to chart a new future for marine technology. Specific topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Underwater network and system architectures
  • Underwater communications (including acoustic, optical, MI, RF, and wired)
  • Underwater channel modeling and signal processing
  • Cooperative underwater communications, including, PHY, MAC, routing, and data transfer
  • Community data infrastructure and public datasets
  • Networked underwater robotics and systems, such as localization, navigation, security, communication and coordination, or human operator interaction
  • Coordinated energy-harvesting systems and power systems for underwater networks and systems
  • Energy-efficient algorithms and protocol design for underwater networks as well as signal/image processing and communication systems
  • Operating system and middleware support for underwater networks and systems
  • Applications that broadly address underwater networks and systems, including coordinated underwater vehicles
  • Modeling, simulation, testbeds, and standardization for underwater systems and platforms
  • Experimental results from underwater networking, signal/image processing and communications field trials, especially in extreme environments
  • Application requirements for underwater networks, signal/image processing and communication systems presented by end users
  • Interaction and integration of underwater networked systems with terrestrial and aerial networking
  • Ocean observing platforms, systems, and instrumentation
  • Underwater sonar signal and image processing
  • Underwater remote sensing
  • Underwater/floating vehicles and robots