*SwarmNet 2020*

2nd IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Wireless Networking, Planning, and Computing
for UAV Swarms

15 June - 18 June, 2019, Cork, Ireland (
https://swarmnet-workshop.github.io/2020)

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:

·         Communication and networking protocols for UAV swarms

·         Resilient communication protocols for multi-agent planning and
control

·         Delay-tolerant networking for UAVs

·         Network topology control for performance optimization
(connectivity, throughput, etc.)

·         Wireless localization for UAVs

·         Communication architectures and technologies for UAV air-traffic
control

·         UAVs in 4G/5G cellular networks

·         UAV integration in the urban IoT

·         Aerial video streaming for virtual/augmented reality

·         Data offloading and mobile edge computing with UAVs

·         Air-to-air, air-to-ground, and ground-to-air channel modeling for
UAVs

·         Cyber-security for UAVs

·         UAV swarm network simulation platforms

·         UAV swarm network testbeds, experimental evaluation, and
prototyping

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 (TBA – Please visit the workshop’s
website for updates) by March 15, 2020.



*Important Dates:*

*Paper submission deadline:* March 15, 2020

*Author Notification:* April 15, 2020

*Camera-ready submission:* April 30, 2020

*Workshop date:* June 15, 2020



*Organizing committee:*

Nick Mastronarde, University at Buffalo, USA

Jacob Chakareski, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Fatemeh Afghah, Northern Arizona University, USA



*Program Committee:*

Zhangyu Guan, University at Buffalo, USA

Abolfazl Razi, Northern Arizona University, USA

Mohammad Mozaffari, Virginia Tech, USA

Georgios Sklivanitis, Florida Atlantic University, USA

Panos P. Markopoulos, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

Jonathan Ashdown, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA

Farshad Ghanei, University at Buffalo, USA

Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Joseph Camp, Southern Methodist University, USA

Jalel Ben-Othman, Université Paris-XIII, France
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