Call for Papers

Dear fellow researchers,

We are thrilled to announce that WUWNet 2026 will be held in Hong Kong, China from December 2 to 5, 2026! As an international financial and technological metropolis with distinctive strengths in marine technology research and cross-border academic exchanges, Hong Kong integrates world-class scientific and educational resources with a vibrant innovation ecosystem. This provides an unparalleled industry-academia-research platform for the conference.

WUWNet’26 aims to gather prominent scientists, engineers, and industry pioneers from around the globe to share and promote frontier research breakthroughs.

We warmly welcome academics and industrial professionals across diverse domains including underwater sensing, communications, networking, robotics, systems, and applications to participate in this premier event.

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
  • AI-driven underwater acoustic communications and networks
  • 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



Important Dates

Full and short paper submission deadline: August 21, 2026
Extended abstract submission deadline: September 07, 2026
Acceptance notification: September 21, 2026