MobiCom’08
Co-Located Workshops
CHANTS’08
MELT’08, VANET’08, WiNS-DR’08,
WiNTECH’08, & WuWNeT’08
September 15, 2008 
San Francisco, CA, USA
Invited Paper
Underwater Communications and AUVs: From the Arctic to the Equator and Other Places Before, After and In Between (Page 1)
Hanumant Singh (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Session 1: Algorithms and Analysis
Analysis
of a Simple Multihop Underwater Acoustic Network (Page
3)
Wenyi Zhang (Qualcomm Research
Center)
Milica Stojanovic (Massachusetts
Institute of Technology)
Urbashi Mitra (University of
Southern California)
Fountain
Codes and Their Application to Broadcasting in Underwater Networks:
Performance Modeling and Relevant Tradeoffs (Page
11)
Paolo Casari (University of
Padova)
Michele Rossi (University of
Padova)
Michele Zorzi (University of
Padova)
Reliability
in Underwater Inter-Vehicle Communications (Page
19)
Amrita A. Nimbalkar (Rutgers,
The State University of New Jersey)
Dario Pompili (Rutgers, The
State University of New Jersey)
Coordination
of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles for Acoustic Image Acquisition (Page
27)
Indraneel S. Kulkarni (Rutgers,
The State University of New Jersey)
Dario Pompili (Rutgers, The
State University of New Jersey)
Session 2: Time Synchronization and Localization
MU-Sync:
A Time Synchronization Protocol for Underwater Mobile Networks (Page
35)
Nitthita Chirdchoo (National
University of Singapore)
Wee-Seng Soh (National University
of Singapore)
Kee Chaing Chua (National University
of Singapore)
Phero-Trail:
A Bio-inspired Location Service for Mobile Underwater Sensor Networks (Page
43)
Luiz Filipe M. Vieira (University
of California at Los Angeles)
Uichin Lee (University of California
at Los Angeles)
Mario Gerla (University of California
at Los Angeles)
Motion-Aware
Self-Localization for Underwater Networks (Page
51)
Diba Mirza (University of California
at San Diego)
Curt Schurgers (University of
California at San Diego)
Session 3: MAC and Routing
UW-FLASHR:
Achieving High Channel Utilization in a Time-Based Acoustic MAC Protocol (Page
59)
Justin Yackoski (University of
Delaware)
Chien-Chung Shen (University
of Delaware)
Towards
Automated Design of MAC Protocols for Underwater Wireless Networks (Page
67)
Volkan Rodoplu (University of
California at Santa Barbara)
Amir Aminzadeh Gohari (University
of California at Santa Barbara)
Wei Tang (University of California
at Santa Barbara)
Focused
Beam Routing Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Networks (Page
75)
Josep Miquel Jornet (Massachusetts
Institute of Technology)
Milica Stojanovic (Massachusetts
Institute of Technology)
Michele Zorzi (University of
Padova)
Short Papers
Survey
of Hardware Platforms for an Energy Efficient Implementation of Matching
Pursuits Algorithm for Shallow Water Networks (Page
83)
Bridget Benson (University of
California at San Diego)
Ali Irturk (University of California
at San Diego)
Junguk Cho (University of California
at San Diego)
Ryan Kastner (University of California
at San Diego)
Structured
Channel Estimation Methods for Cooperative Underwater Communication (Page
87)
Nicholas Richard (University
of Southern California)
Urbashi Mitra (University of
Southern California)
Improving
Efficiency of a Flooding-based Routing Protocol for Underwater Networks (Page
91)
Aditi Goel (University of New
Hampshire)
Aiswariya G. Kannan (University
of New Hampshire)
Ian Katz (Autonomous Undersea
Systems Institute)
Radim Bartoš (University of New
Hampshire)
A
Reservation MAC Protocol for Ad-Hoc Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (Page
95)
Leonard T. Tracy (University
of Washington)
Sumit Roy (University of Washington)
An
Ultrasonic Communication System for Biotelemetry in Extremely Shallow
Waters (Page
99)
Gregory Parsons (North Carolina
State University)
Shaolin Peng (North Carolina
State University)
Alexander G. Dean (North Carolina
State University)