IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (IEEE WOWMOM 2021)
June 7-11, 2021 | Pisa, Italy
VIRTUAL
IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (IEEE WOWMOM 2021)
June 7-11, 2021 | Pisa, Italy
VIRTUAL
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.
Recent advances in embedded computing, wireless communication, flight controllers, and miniaturized sensing have enabled the growth of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Networked swarms of such UAVs 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).
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers working at the intersection of wireless networking, mobile computing, sensing, robotics, and/or planning to address a myriad of fundamental technical challenges that must be solved before UAV swarms (and, more broadly, multi-UAV systems) can be safely, effectively, and widely deployed. Since many of these challenges will not be able to be addressed without the help of UAV swarm simulation platforms, experimental testbeds/prototypes, and experimental evaluations, papers on these topics are especially encouraged.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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
(https://edas.info/N28126)
by
March 1, 2021
Extended: March 15, 2021 AoE.
For guidelines regarding formatting, please refer to the IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings.
| Paper submission deadline: | |
|---|---|
| Author Notification: | April 1, 2021 |
| Camera-ready submission: | April 19, 2021 |
| Workshop date: | June 7, 2021 |