The goal of WNCEE, now in its 5th edition, is to bring together researchers
and practitioners from both academia and industry working on algorithms,
architectures, protocols, prototypes, testbeds, and systems for wireless
communications and networking in extreme environments with a focus on
underwater, underground, intrabody, aerial and rural wireless networks.
WCNEE serves as a forum for sharing experiences, research findings and
technical presentations from the physical all the way to the application
layer with a focus on bridging the gaps between theory, algorithms,
prototypes, testbeds, demonstration and production networks. Authors are
invited to submit previously unpublished papers to this workshop.


Topics include, but are not limited to:

- AI/ML applied to wireless systems in extreme environments
- AI/ML for control and management of networks of networks with
heterogeneous requirements in extreme environments (underwater,
underground, aerial, intrabody, space, rural)
- Adversarial learning and operation of autonomous wireless systems in
challenging/contested communication environments
- Spectrum sharing and coexistence in congested environments
- Security and privacy mechanisms for data sharing in extreme
environments
- Hardware-reduced software-defined radios
- Low-power wireless systems
- Ad-hoc infrastructure-less cross-layer networking, routing, handover
and meshing
- RF/Acoustic/Optical/Visible-light communication systems
- Autonomously networked mobile or static (implantable in a living
tissue or in a reservoir) communications system designs
- Cooperation of robotic unmanned vehicles with multi-domain
(sea-land-air) capabilities
- Self-driving self-sustainable wireless networks
- Distributed mobile multi-function wireless systems for joint
communications and sensing in extreme environments
- Localization, detection, classification and tracking methods in
GPS-denied environments
- Energy harvesting and wireless power transfer systems
- Experimental testbeds and measurements from prototypes and real-world
wireless (underwater, aerial, intra-body, underground, rural, space)
network deployments
- Signal propagation and attenuation models


*Important Dates*
Paper Submission Deadline: May 21, 2021
Acceptance Notification : June 11, 2021
Camera-ready Paper Deadline: June 18, 2021
Workshop Date: July 14– 16, 2021 (Particular 1-day will be announced soon)

*Organizing Committee*

Workshop Chairs
George Sklivanitis, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Zhangyu Guan, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA

Steering Committee
Stella N. Batalama, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Tommaso Melodia, Northeastern University, USA
Dimitris A. Pados, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Emrecan Demirors, Northeastern University, USA
Panos P. Markopoulos, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

Technical Program Committee
Sergi Abadal, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Fatemeh Afghah, Northern Arizona University, USA
Paolo Casari, University of Trento, Italy
Nan Cen, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
Salvatore D'Oro, Northeastern University, USA
Pedram Johari, Northeastern University, USA
Hovannes Kulhandjian, California State University, Fresno, USA
Athanasios Panagopoulos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Konstantinos Pelekanakis, NATO Center for Martime Research and Experimentation, Italy
Christian Renner, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Zhi Sun, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA