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* Preliminary Call for Papers
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* DroNet 2015
* 1st Workshop on
* Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications
* for Civilian Use
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* http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2015/workshops.php
* (organized in conjunction with ACM MobiSys 2015)
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* Florence, Italy
* May 18, 2015
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* Submissions due: February 15, 2015
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OVERVIEW
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Micro and nano aerial vehicles (MAVs and NAVs), often referred to as
drones, are unmanned aerial vehicles of various forms, such as small
quadrocopters, airplanes, balloons, or tiny flapping wing vehicles. They
are novel mobile unmanned systems currently investigated in various
mission-oriented civilian applications. Recent popular applications
employing MAVs are 3D-mapping, search and rescue, surveillance, farmland
and construction monitoring, delivery of light-weight objects and
products (e.g., Amazon has recently advertised their new drone delivery
system), or video taking during sports events. Such drones are
autonomous systems with a good awareness of their environment, provided
by rich on board sensors, such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, lasers,
GPS units and cameras, and embedded image processing. Nevertheless, all
useful applications require a reliable communication link, or even rely
on fleets of MAVs that need to coordinate their activities.
DroNet welcomes contributions dealing with communication aspects of
micro aerial vehicles, theoretical studies, algorithm and protocol
design for flexible aerial networks, as well as mission-oriented
contributions dealing with requirements, constraints, safety issues, and
regulation. We are particularly looking for papers reporting on system
aspects and experimental results, summaries of challenges or
advancements, measurements, or innovative applications. The program
seeks original work of potentially interdisciplinary teams to present
robotic work or applications focusing on the communication challenges or
requirements to the audience.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Drone ad-hoc networks
- Micro flying systems
- Aerial communication protocol design (requirements and challenges)
- MAC and routing protocols for MAV fleets
- Theoretical analysis and models for drone networks
- Solutions for sparse and dense fleets of MAVs
- Spectrum and regulatory issues
- Mission and context-aware solutions
- Communication for drone coordination
- Mobility-aware and 3D communication
- Delay-tolerant aerial networks and ferrying approaches
- Energy-efficient operation and energy harvesting of MAVs
- Integration of MAVs in mobile, pervasive systems
- MAV-based sensor networks
- Positioning and localization
- Swarm movement, coordination, and behavior
- Autonomous flight
- Artificial intelligence techniques for drones
- Vision and object tracking
- Automated map generation
- Game, entertainment, and multimedia drone applications
- Smart cities and urban applications of MAVs
- Social good applications
- Emergency applications
- Human drone interaction
- Cooperative surveillance, smart cameras and sensors
- Acceptance, security, and privacy aspects
- Experimental results of aerial communication testbeds.
DroNet invites submission of original work not previously published or
under review at another conference or journal. The workshop will accept
full paper, poster, and demo submissions. Full papers must be no longer
than 6 pages, poster and demonstration papers are limited to 2 pages.
DroNet follows a single-blind review process. Submissions must be
submitted in PDF format and follow the formatting guidelines provided at
http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2015. The proceedings will contain full
papers as well as poster and demo submissions and will be published by
ACM. All accepted full papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award.
TEMPORARY WEB SITE
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http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2015/workshops.php
(More information will be available soon.)
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
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- Kuan-Ta Chen (Academia Sinica)
- Mario Gerla (UCLA)
- Karin Anna Hummel (ETH Zich)
- Claudio E. Palazzi (University of Padua)
- Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven)
- James J.P. Sterbenz (University of Kansas)
DEMO AND POSTER CHAIRS
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- Domenico Giustiniano (IMDEA Networks Institute)
- Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven)
IMPORTANT DATES
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- Submission deadline (paper, demo, poster): February 15, 2015
- Notification date: March 13, 2015
- Camera-ready due: April 2, 2015
- Workshop date: May 18th, 2015
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