Scope

Extreme communication environments such as underwater, aerial, underground, and intra-body have been attracting growing interest from both academia and industry in an effort to conquer the last wireless communication frontiers. Novel wireless communication architectures and networking protocols for extreme communication environments enable a rich body of applications with unprecedented societal impact. The workshop will focus on communication, networking, and system-level developments related to underwater, aerial, underground, and intra-body environments, as well as on contributions towards the characterization and modeling of the different mediums based on real-world data measurements.

The goal of the workshop is to unveil the latest wireless technology developments, from the physical layer all the way to the application layer in realizing underwater, aerial, underground, and intra-body communication networks with a focus on bridging the gaps between theory, algorithms, and practical system implementations. The workshop will bring together academic and industrial researchers to identify and discuss technical challenges and recent results related to underwater, aerial, underground, and intra-body extreme communication environments.

Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Communications and Networking Protocols

Energy efficient protocols and routing techniques
Cognitive networking
Cooperative communications
Cross-medium protocol designs
Secure physical layer communication schemes
Signal waveform design
Spectrally efficient modulation and coding techniques
Multi-antenna communications
Multiple-access and medium access control and sharing
Low-power wireless communications
Ad-hoc networking, routing, handover and meshing
Distributed sensing and mobile networking

Systems and Applications

Modeling and simulation tools
Experimental results from prototypes, testbeds, and demonstrations
Software defined wireless platforms and software-defined networking testbeds
Applications for the internet of (underwater, aerial, underground, and intra-body) things
Autonomously networked mobile or static (implantable in a living tissue or in a reservoir) communication system designs
Health and environmental concerns for next-generation applications
Hardware/software challenges in transceiver designs
Cooperation of terrestrial, aerial and underwater (unmanned) vehicles
Human-machine interaction

Signal Processing and Channel Modeling

Signal models
Optimization techniques for multi-sensor processing
Signal processing for network beamforming
Localization, navigation, path planning
Machine learning for cognitive networking
Signal propagation and attenuation models (absorption, scattering, fading, multipath)
Measurement and characterization (modeling) of real-world wireless (underwater, aerial, intra-body, underground) network deployments

Submissions

Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11 format. Accepted papers will be published in the combined INFOCOM 2017 Workshop proceedings and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore. Submitted papers may not have been previously published in or under consideration for publication in another journal or conference. The reviews will be single blind. Manuscripts should be submitted as PDF files via EDAS .

Final camera ready and registration guidelines can be found in last year's website . Papers up to 6 pages plus 2 extra pages (with extra page fees) are allowed.

Committees

Steering Committee

Dr. Stella N. Batalama
Florida Atlantic University, USA
Dr. Tommaso Melodia
Northeastern University, USA
Dr. Dimitris A. Pados
Florida Atlantic University, USA

Program Committee Co-Chairs

Dr. George Sklivanitis
Florida Atlantic University, USA
Dr. Emrecan Demirors
Northeastern University, USA
Dr. Panos P. Markopoulos
Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Dr. G. Enrico Santagati
Bose Corporation, USA

Technical Program Committee

Ozgur B. Akan (University of Cambridge, UK)
Payman Arabshahi (University of Washington, USA)
Jonathan Ashdown (United States Air Force, USA)
Stefano Basagni (Northeastern University, USA)
Pierre-Philippe Beaujean (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
Jean-Francois Bousquet (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Paolo Casari (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain)
Luca Chiaraviglio (University of Rome Tor Vergara, Italy)
Amlan Ganguly (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
Paul Gendron (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA)
Wolfgang Gerstacker (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
Zhangyu Guan (Northeastern University, USA)
Josep Miquel Jornet (SUNY at Buffalo, USA)
George Karystinos (Technical University of Crete, Greece)
Dimitrios Koutsonikolas (SUNY at Buffalo, USA)
William Liu (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)
Nicholas Mastronarde (SUNY at Buffalo, USA)
David Matolak (University of South Carolina, USA)
Sergio Palazzo (University of Catania, Italy)
Mehdi Rahmati (Rutgers University, USA)
Ervin Sejdic (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Hanumant Singh (Northeastern University, USA)
Petros Spachos (University of Guelph, Canada)
Milica Stojanovic (Northeastern University, USA)
Zhi Sun (SUNY at Buffalo, USA)
Meenupriya Swaminathan (Northeastern University, USA)
Nicholas Tsagkarakis (University of South Carolina, USA)
Charalampos Tsimenidis (Newcastle University, UK)
Mehmet Vuran (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
Huseyin Ugur Yildiz (TED University, Turkey)

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline:	January 13, 2018 (extended-FIRM)
Author Notification:	February 15, 2018
Camera-ready submission:	March 2, 2018
Workshop date:	April 16, 2018

Contact Us

E-mail the organizers: ieee.wcnee@gmail.com

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