[Om-announce] [Deadline Approaching, December 29] 14th International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Robot and UAV Networks, IEEE WISARN 2021, co-located with IEEE INFOCOM 2021

[Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro]

[apologies for cross-posting]

14th International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Robot and UAV Networks
IEEE WISARN 2021, co-located with IEEE INFOCOM 2021 conference

Deadline (Already Extended): December 29, 2020 (hard deadline)
Submission link: https://edas.info/N27895

Website: https://wisarn2021.nws.cs.unibo.it
May 10, 2021 Virtual Conference


Features:

- Best Paper Award (BPA) sponsored by the Technology Innovation
   Institute (TII) with a cash prize of 1,000 Euro.

- Best-selected papers related to robotic sensors networks and 5G will
   be invited to submit an extended paper to the Special Issue on
   "Internet of Things and Sensors Network in 5G Wireless
   Communications", MDPI Sensors journal.

- Best-selected papers related to robotic sensors networks and 5G will
   be invited to submit an extended paper to the Special Issue on
   "Mobile Fog and Edge Computing in Drone Swarms", MDPI Drones journal.


Important Deadlines:
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Deadline (Already Extended): December 29, 2020 (hard deadline)
Notification: January 15, 2021
Camera-ready: February, 15, 2021
Workshop date: May 10, 2021


Scope of the workshop
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Wireless Sensor, Robot and UAV networks are characterized by the
coordination and mobility of nodes that are able to accomplish
distributed sensing and actuation tasks. Leveraged by the control and
mobility of actors, the networking process and applications embrace a
whole new set of possibilities. Specialized networked systems, made of
intelligent devices (such as robots and UAVs), may deploy, repair and
relocate sensors to improve coverage, build routes and fix network
partition to ensure data communication, change network topology to
shape routing patterns and balance energy consumption, and to respond
to reported events in a timely and effective manner. Also, they might
be able to integrate within existing and upcoming mobile
infrastructures (e.g. the 5G), by enabling the sensing operations on
complex and dynamic scenarios, and to process the data on the edge or
to offload them toward existing cloud services. The benefits are
limited only by imagination. As an emerging field, ground and aerial
robotic systems are in need of new networking techniques as well as of
novel cloud/edge architectures for data gathering and processing that
might unlock the potentials of such systems. To this purpose, WiSARN
aims at bringing together state-of-the-art contributions on the
design, specification and implementation of architectures, algorithms
and protocols for current and future applications of sensor robotic
and aerial networks. IEEE WiSARN 2021 will serve as incubator for
scientific communities that share a particular research agenda in the
area of the workshop’s topics. Moreover, it will provide its
participants with opportunities to understand the major technical and
application challenges of UAV/Robot networking as well as exchange and
discuss scientific and engineering ideas related to their
architecture, protocol, algorithm, and application design.


Topics of interest
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Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in design,
implementation and evaluation of wireless sensor, robot and UAV
networks. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

- UAV-aided wireless sensor networks

- Communication protocols and wireless technologies for robotic systems

- UAV and robot networks in 5G systems

- Emergent behavior in robotic systems

- Cloud/fog/edge computing platforms in robotic systems

- Data management, gathering and aggregation issues in robotic systems

- Modeling and control of fleet of UAVs

- Autonomic and self-organizing coordination and communication in Robot 
and UAV networks

- Energy-efficient and real-time communication protocols in Robot and 
UAV networks

- Distributed control and management for Robot and UAV network deployments

- Map exploration and pattern formation of mobile robots

- Robot task assignment

- Biologically inspired communication systems for Robot and UAV networks

- Software-Defined Aerial Networks

- Endurance Management

- Context-awareness and decision making for UAV systems

- Path planning, and target tracking in UAV networks

- Quality of service, security and robustness issues

- Robot advanced motion control

- Optimal control of networked robots

- Novel applications of Robot and UAV networks


Committees
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General Chairs

- Enrico Natalizio, University of Lorraine, France
- Yannis Paschalidis, Boston University, USA

Technical Program Chairs

- Marco Di Felice, University of Bologna, Italy
- Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
- Guan Zhangyu, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA

Web and Publicity Chairs

- Angelo Trotta, University of Bologna, Italy

Technical Program Committee
- Fatemeh Afghah, Northern Arizona University, USA
- Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, Canada
- Christian Bettstetter, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
- Marcos Caetano, University of Brasilia, Brasil
- Christelle Caillouet, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Inria, France
- Carlos Calafate, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
- Arnaud Casteigts, University of Bordeaux, France
- Fabio D'Andreagiovanni, CNRS, Sorbonne University - UTC, France
- Salvatore D'Oro, Northeastern University, USA
- Giulia De Masi, Technology Innovation Institute, UAE
- Saptarshi Debroy, City University of New York, USA
- Isabelle Guérin Lassous, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - LIP, France
- Francesca Guerriero, University of Calabria, Italy
- Hongzhi Guo, Norfolk State University, USA
- Karin Hummel, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
- Pedram Johari, Northeastern University, USA
- Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University, Canada
- Filippo Malandra, University at Buffalo, USA
- Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
- Nicholas Mastronarde, University at Buffalo, USA
- Jorge Ortín, Centro Universitario de la Defensa Zaragoza, Spain
- Angelo Trotta, University of Bologna, Italy
- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA
- Fabrice Valois, Univ Lyon, INSA Lyon, Inria, CITI, France
- Christian Wietfeld, TU Dortmund University, Germany
- Evsen Yanmaz, Ozyegin University, Turkey
- Nicola Roberto Zema, Paris-Saclay University, France


Submission Instructions
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To submit your paper, it is required that the manuscript follows the
standard IEEE camera-ready format (double column, 10-pt font) and be
submitted as PDF file (formatted for 8.5-11 inch paper) as well as the
requirement set by the EDAS paper submission system. Submitted paper
must be original and unpublished papers with no more than 6 pages,
including bibliography.

All accepted papers of INFOCOM (main program and workshops), after
being presented at the conference, will be included in the proceedings
to be submitted for publication in IEEE Xplore.

Submission link: https://edas.info/N27895