Call for Papers

Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) technologies address the increasing demand for new unmanned and autonomous applications of next-to-come sixth-generation (6G) networks by offering wide-area coverage and ensuring service availability, continuity, and scalability. Spaceborne (i.e., GEO, MEO, and LEO satellites) or airborne (i.e., Unmanned Aircraft Systems or UASs and High Altitude Platforms or HAPs) vehicles constituting the NTN may act either as a relay node or as a base station and can be leveraged to complement the terrestrial networks.
Compared to terrestrial wireless networks, NTNs have many distinctive features, such as specific channel models, highly dynamic network topologies, and weakly connected communication links. As a consequence, solutions tailored to terrestrial networks cannot be directly applied to NTNs. Hence, new techniques suitable for NTNs need to be developed.
Furthermore, various satellite systems on different orbits remain isolated ‘islands’, and they are also disconnected from the ground networks. Therefore, integrating all existing networks in air, space, and on ground into a unified system will be essential for 6G.
The purpose of the NTN-6G Workshop is to provide a platform for the discussion of the major research challenges, latest developments and recent advances in Non-Terrestrial Networks in 6G Wireless Networks.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Submissions

Submissions may be up to 6 pages in length (including figures and references), formatted in two-column IEEE conference style with font size 10 point or greater. For the camera-ready (accepted) papers, authors can buy one additional page, for a total length of up to 7 pages.

Papers must be submitted electronically to EDAS by March 15, 2021.

For guidelines regarding formatting, please refer to the IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings.

 

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Important Dates

Papers due March 15, 2021 (extended)
Paper selection due April 1, 2021
Camera Ready April 19, 2021
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Committees

Workshop Organizers:

Giuseppe Araniti
University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy

araniti@unirc.it

Helka-Liina Määttänen
Ericsson Research, Finland

helka-liina.maattanen@ericsson.com

Sara Pizzi
University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy

sara.pizzi@unirc.it

Technical Program Committee:

 

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Award

The IEEE Broadcast Technology Society recognizes one distinguished paper authored by student submitted through the presentation of an Award for the “Best Student Paper” for one paper accepted to the workshop.

The Award consists in a Certificate and one prize of 500 USD (gross amount before taxes) to the author of the Best Paper who has the requisites indicated below.

Only authors with the following requisites are eligible for the award:

- be a Member of IEEE;

- be a student at the time the paper was submitted;

- be one of the authors of the paper.

Selection will consider also the paper presentation. The winner will be notified within 10 days after the end of the conference.

 

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Program

NTN-6G with be held in conjunction with SwarmNet


Message from the Workshop Chairs

It is a great pleasure to welcome you to the Joint Workshop on Non-Terrestrial Networks in 6G Wireless (NTN-6G) and Wireless Networking, Planning, and Computing for UAV Swarms (SwarmNet), which is organized this year in conjunction with WoWMoM 2021.

Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) technologies address the increasing demand for new unmanned and autonomous applications of next-to-come sixth-generation (6G) networks by offering wide-area coverage and ensuring service availability, continuity, and scalability. Spaceborne (i.e., GEO, MEO, and LEO satellites) or airborne (i.e., Unmanned Aircraft Systems or UASs and High Altitude Platforms or HAPs) vehicles constituting the NTN may act either as a relay node or as a base station and can be leveraged to complement the terrestrial networks. Compared to terrestrial wireless networks, NTNs have many distinctive features, such as specific channel models, highly dynamic network topologies, and weakly connected communication links. As a consequence, solutions tailored to terrestrial networks cannot be directly applied to NTNs. Hence, new techniques suitable for NTNs need to be developed.

In parallel, networked swarms of UASs promise breakthroughs in public safety, commercial, and military applications including search-and-rescue, disaster response, infrastructure inspection, environmental monitoring, virtual/augmented reality, and ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance). However, a myriad of fundamental technical challenges at the intersection of NTNs, mobile computing, sensing, robotics and/or planning must be solved before UAS swarms can be safely, effectively, and widely deployed.

Members of the Joint Workshop’s Technical Program Committee identified 6 high quality papers for presentation in the workshop. Additionally, the program will include two exciting keynote talks and a panel.

We wish to thank all the authors for submitting papers to the joint workshop. We would also like to extend a special thank you to the Technical Program Committee members for their invaluable work and responsiveness under tight deadlines. Finally, we would like to thank the IEEE WoWMoM 2021 Workshop Co-Chairs Ana Aguiar and Andreas J. Kassler for giving us the opportunity to organize the joint workshop.

We sincerely hope that you enjoy the program.


Workshop Chairs,

Sara Pizzi, Helka-Liina Määttänen, and Giuseppe Araniti

Nick Mastronarde, Fatemeh Afghah, and Jacob Chakareski


 

Schedule

9.00-9-10: Opening remarks


9.10-10.00: Keynote NTN-6G

On-Demand Aerial Infrastructures: System Modeling and Experimentation

Keynote speaker: Sergey Andreev


10.00-10.15: Paper presentation 1

Interoperable Simulation Tools for Satellite Networks

Presenter: Anastasia Yastrebova


10.15-10.30: Paper presentation 2

A System Simulator for 5G Non-Terrestrial Networks Evaluations

Presenter: Jani Puttonen

https://youtu.be/G7AeG8E7TBE


10.30-10.45: Paper presentation 3

Performance Analysis of a Dual Terahertz/Ka Band Communication System for Satellite Mega-Constellations

Presenter: Ali Al Qaraghuli


10.45-11.00: Break


11.00-11.50: Keynote SwarmNet

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11.50-12.05: Paper presentation 1

Effect of antenna orientation on the air-to-air channel in arbitrary 3D space

Presenter: Neil C. Matson


12.05-12.20: Paper presentation 2

Tethered UAV with high gain antenna for BVLOS CNPC: A practical design for widespread use

Presenter: Andrew L. Yingst

https://youtu.be/ilIS1P-xHwo


12.20-12.35: Paper presentation 3

Multi-platform hardware in the loop (HIL) simulation for decentralized swarm communication using ROS and GAZEBO

Presenter: Saran Khaliq


12.35-13.00: Panel

Keynote Speaker

Sergey Andreev
Tampere University, Finland

Title: On-Demand Aerial Infrastructures: System Modeling and Experimentation
In this talk, we introduce the concept of on-demand aerial networking and review the corresponding modeling efforts by Tampere University teams. These include mmWave drone-based relaying and traffic offloading, among other methods. The presented approach incorporates system-level analysis and simulations, employs learning-aided techniques, and develops to emulation and demonstration activities.

Sergey Andreev is an associate professor of communications engineering and Academy Research Fellow at Tampere University, Finland. He has been a Visiting Senior Research Fellow with King's College London, UK (2018-20) and a Visiting Postdoc with University of California, Los Angeles, US (2016-17). He received his Ph.D. (2012) from TUT as well as his Specialist (2006), Cand.Sc. (2009), and Dr.Habil. (2019) degrees from SUAI.