08:15 - 09:00 AM Arrival & Registration

09:00 - 09:05 AM Welcome & Announcements

09:05 - 09:50 AM Keynote speech: Dr. Hanumant Singh

• Underwater Communications and AUVs: From The Arctic to the Equator and Other Places Before, After and In Between
  Hanumant Singh (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

09:50 - 10:15 AM Session 1: Algorithms and Analysis (Session Chair: Volkan Rodoplu )

• Analysis of A Simple Multihop Underwater Acoustic Network
  Wenyi Zhang (Qualcomm Research Center, US) Milica Stojanovic (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California) <slides>

10:15 - 10:45 AM Coffee break

10:45 - 12:30 PM Session 1: Algorithms and Analysis (cont.) (Session Chair: Volkan Rodoplu )

• Fountain Codes and their Application to Broadcasting in Underwater Networks: Performance Modeling and Relevant Tradeoffs
  Paolo Casari (University of Padova, IT) Michele Rossi (University of Padova, IT) Michele Zorzi (Università degli Studi di Padova, IT) <slides>

• Reliability in Underwater Inter-Vehicle Communications
  Amrita Nimbalkar (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) Dario Pompili (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) <slides>

• Coordination of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles for Acoustic Image Acquisition
  Indraneel Kulkarni (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) Dario Pompili (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) <slides>

12:30 - 13:30 PM Lunch (please note that poster session begins during lunch)

13:00 - 14:30 PM Short Paper, Poster & Demo Session

Short Papers (Presented as Posters)

• Survey of Hardware Platforms for an Energy Efficient Implementation of Matching Pursuits Algorithm for Shallow Water Networks
  Bridget Benson, Ali Irturk, Junguk Cho and Ryan Kastner (University of California, San Diego)

• Structured Channel Estimation Methods for Cooperative Underwater Communications
  Nicholas Richard (University of Southern California) Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California)

• Improving Efficiency of a Flooding-based Routing Protocol for Underwater Networks
  Aditi Goel (University of New Hampshire) Aiswariya Kannan (University of New Hampshire) Ian Katz (University of New Hampshire) Radim Bartos (University of New Hampshire)

• A Reservation MAC Protocol for Ad-Hoc Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks
  Leonard Tracy (University of Washington) Sumit Roy (University of Washington)

• An Ultrasonic Communication System for Biotelemetry in Extremely Shallow Waters
  Gregory Parsons (North Carolina State University) Shaolin Peng (North Carolina State University) Alexander Dean (North Carolina State University)

Work-In-Progress Posters and Demos

14:30 - 15:45 PM Session 2: Time Synchronization and Localization (Session Chair: John Heidemann )

• MU-Sync: A Time Synchronization Protocol for Underwater Mobile Networks
  Nitthita Chirdchoo (National University of Singapore) Wee-Seng Soh (National University of Singapore) Kee Chaing Chua (National University of Singapore) <slides>

• Phero-Trail: a Bio-inspired Location Service for Mobile Underwater Sensors
  Luiz Vieira (University of California, Los Angeles) Uichin Lee (University of California, Los Angeles) Mario Gerla (University of California, Los Angeles) <slides>

• Motion-Aware Self-Localization for Underwater Networks
  Diba Mirza (University of California, San Diego) Curt Schurgers (University of California, San Diego) <slides>

15:45 - 16:15 PM Coffee break (posters/demos will be open)

16:15 - 17:30 PM Session 3: MAC and Routing (Session Chair: Jun-Hong Cui )

• UW-FLASHR: Achieving High Channel Utilization in a Time-Based Acoustic MAC Protocol
  Justin Yackoski (University of Delaware) Chien-Chung Shen (University of Delaware)

• Towards Automated Design of MAC Protocols for Underwater Wireless Networks
  Volkan Rodoplu (University of California, Santa Barbara) Amir Aminzadeh Gohari (University of California, Santa Barbara) Wei Tang (University of California, Santa Barbara) <slides>

• Focused Beam Routing protocol for Underwater Acoustic Networks
  Josep Miquel Jornet Montana (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Milica Stojanovic (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Michele Zorzi (Università degli Studi di Padova) <slides>

17:30 PM Poster awards, Closing.