Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Underwater network and system architectures

• Efficient underwater communications (including acoustic, optical, RF, and wired, etc.), with techniques from the physical layer to the application layer

• Underwater acoustic modeling and signal processing

• Cooperative underwater communications, including, PHY, MAC, routing, and data transfer, etc.

• Networked underwater robotics and systems, such as localization, navigation, security, communication & 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, and testbeds for underwater systems and platforms

• Experimental results from underwater networking, signal/image processing and communications field trials

• 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