14. MOBICOM 2008 WUWNET: San Francisco, California, USA

Milica Stojanovic, Phil Schniter, Wei Ye (Eds.): Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Underwater Networks, WUWNET 2008, San Francisco, California, USA, September 15, 2007. ACM 2008, ISBN 978-1-60558-185-9

Hanumant Singh:
Underwater communications and AUVs: from the arctic to the equator and other places before, after and in between. 1-2

Algorithms and analysis

Wenyi Zhang, Milica Stojanovic, Urbashi Mitra:
Analysis of a simple multihop underwater acoustic network. 3-10
Paolo Casari, Michele Rossi, Michele Zorzi:
Fountain codes and their application to broadcasting in underwater networks: performance modeling and relevant tradeoffs. 11-18
Amrita A. Nimbalkar, Dario Pompili:
Reliability in underwater inter-vehicle communications. 19-26
Indraneel S. Kulkarni, Dario Pompili:
Coordination of autonomous underwater vehicles for acoustic image acquisition. 27-34

Time Synchronization and localization

Nitthita Chirdchoo, Wee-Seng Soh, Kee Chaing Chua:
MU-Sync: a time synchronization protocol for underwater mobile networks. 35-42
Luiz Filipe M. Vieira, Uichin Lee, Mario Gerla:
Phero-Trail: a bio-inspired location service for mobile underwater sensor networks. 43-50
Diba Mirza, Curt Schurgers:
Motion-aware self-localization for underwater networks. 51-58

MAC and routing

Justin Yackoski, Chien-Chung Shen:
UW-FLASHR: achieving high channel utilization in a time-based acoustic mac protocol. 59-66
Volkan Rodoplu, Amir Aminzadeh-Gohari, Wei Tang:
Towards automated design of MAC protocols for underwater wireless networks. 67-74
Josep Miquel Jornet, Milica Stojanovic, Michele Zorzi:
Focused beam routing protocol for underwater acoustic networks. 75-82

Short Papers

Bridget Benson, Ali Irturk, Junguk Cho, Ryan Kastner:
Survey of hardware platforms for an energy efficient implementation of matching pursuits algorithm for shallow water networks. 83-86
Nicholas Richard, Urbashi Mitra:
Structured channel estimation methods for cooperative underwater communication. 87-90
Aditi Goel, Aiswariya G. Kannan, Ian Katz, Radim Bartos:
Improving efficiency of a flooding-based routing protocol for underwater networks. 91-94
Leonard T. Tracy, Sumit Roy:
A reservation mac protocol for ad-hoc underwater acoustic sensor networks. 95-98
Gregory S. Parsons, Shaolin Peng, Alexander G. Dean:
An ultrasonic communication system for biotelemetry in extremely shallow waters. 99-102