Mobile Underwater Sensor Networks and Acoustics: Advances and Practices
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) and JASA Express Letters are calling for papers for a joint Special Issue on “Mobile Underwater Sensor Networks and Acoustics: Advances and Practices.”
Networks of mobile underwater sensors possess outstanding advantages compared to individual counterparts. There has been extensive research on these networks and impressive results have been reported on various occasions. As a result, there are also increasingly more efforts for sea trials of mobile underwater sensor networks, which is especially important for both theoretical and technological development. This special issue aims to cover the latest innovations, research findings, and practical implementations related to mobile underwater sensor networks with acoustic components. Researchers, engineers, and industry professionals are especially encouraged to share their relevant insights and experiences gained from the sea trials or field experiments.
Please note: Accepted papers will be published in the next available regular issue of the selected journal and identified as belonging to this Special Issue. After all papers from both journals have been published for the Special Issue, they will all be listed in a joint online collection on the JASA and JASA Express Letters websites.
Topics covered include, but are not limited to:
- Design and architecture of mobile underwater acoustic networks
- Integration of underwater mobile networks with acoustic sensors
- Detection, localization, and tracking algorithms and tests in underwater environments
- Communication protocols for mobile underwater sensor networks
- Distributed estimation and control technologies for mobile sensor networks
- Applications in ocean dynamics observation, environmental monitoring, and target detection
- Field tests of cooperative unmanned underwater vehicle swarms
- Challenges and solutions in real-world deployments of mobile underwater sensor networks
- Future trends and research directions in mobile acoustic sensing technologies
Guest Editors
Wen Xu*
Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Email: wxu@idsse.ac.cn
Milica Stojanovic
Northeastern University
Email: millitsa@ece.neu.edu
Fumin Zhang
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Email: eefumin@ust.hk
Andrea Munafò
University of Pisa
Email: andrea.munafo@unipi.it
Huarong Zheng
Zhejiang University
Email: hrzheng@zju.edu.cn
*Liaison Guest Editor
Manuscript Details & Submission
Please note: although there will be a joint online collection, your paper, if accepted, will publish in the journal you chose to submit to.
- Please select the journal you will be submitting to and visit the following, where you will find the Information for Contributors for the selected journal and link to this journal’s online submission system:
- For JASA: JASA Preparing Your Manuscript page
- For JASA Express Letters: JASA Express Letters Preparing Your Manuscript page
- To ensure your submission is considered for the Special Issue, please do the following:
- When submitting your paper in the selected journal’s online submission system, select the name of this special issue (SPECIAL ISSUE ON MOBILE UNDERWATER SENSOR NETWORKS AND ACOUSTICS: ADVANCES AND PRACTICES) in the dropdown menu for the section/category.
- In your manuscript file, before the abstract, please include the following: “This paper is part of a special issue on Mobile Underwater Sensor Networks and Acoustics: Advances and Practices.”