*1st Workshop on Resiliency in Public Safety Communication Systems (RPSCS),
in Conjunction with IEEE ICC 2016*



*Scope*:

Many of today’s critical networked infrastructures, such as transportation
and power systems, rely heavily on communication technologies and systems.
The resiliency of such communication systems in face of natural disasters,
malicious attacks, or even day-to-day wear and tear has become of great
importance to maintain the continuous operation of such critical systems.
Resilience can have many definitions that range from the ability of a
communication system to operate under harsh environments or to withstand
malicious attacks, all the way to its adaptability to failures or other
unexpected events. In particular, resilience of public safety communication
networks during emergencies can become a matter of life or death, since
first responders and public
safety personnel rely heavily on wired and
wireless communication capabilities to execute their search and rescue
operations. At the same time, critical infrastructure networks and other
civil protection network deployments need to be highly robust, and function
effectively in the presence of dynamically varying external and internal
conditions. The goal of this workshop is to bring together academic and
industrial researchers to identify and discuss technical challenges and
recent results related to resilient and robust communication networks, as
well as their applications in public safety and critical infrastructure
systems.



*Area/Topics of interest*:

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

·       New definitions of resiliency as it applies to wired and wireless
communication systems.

·       Public safety communication (PSC) systems relying on 4G
LTE and 5G
wireless technologies.

·       Public safety spectrum sharing, future spectrum requirements for
PSC networks.

·       Resiliency studies for PSC networks and infrastructure against
natural disasters, and terrorist/cyber-attacks.

·       Use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for enhancing PSC and
communication resiliency.

·       Resilient cyber-physical systems and smart cities.

·       Synergies between resilient control systems and resilient
communication networks.

·       Advanced technologies such as device-to-device, multi-hop, and
relay-based communications for enhanced PSC.

·       Propagation channel measurements and modeling for PSC.

·       Interworking and interoperability between public safety networks
and commercial networks.

·       Game-theoretic techniques, resource allocation, and power control
for resilient
and public safety communications.

·       Software defined radio (SDR) testbeds and experimentation on
resilient systems.

·       Software-defined management and control mechanisms for improving
PSC communication resilience.

·       The role of cyber-physical systems in resiliency.

·       Resilient rapidly deployable communication networks.


*Workshop Co-Chairs*:

Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA)

Ismail Guvenc (Florida International University, USA)
Tinku Rasheed (Orion Innovations, Greece)

*Important Dates:*
- Paper submission deadline: December 4, 2015
- Acceptance notification: February 21, 2016
- Camera-ready papers: March 13, 2016


*Additional Information*:

https://sites.google.com/site/rpscs2015/


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