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Call for Papers for the *13th IEEE International Workshop on Wireless
Sensor, Robot and UAV Networks* (IEEE WiSARN 2020)

27th April 2020, Beijing, China
in conjunction with the* IEEE INFOCOM 2020* conference

Website: *http://wisarn2020.nws.cs.unibo.it
<http://wisarn2020.nws.cs.unibo.it>*

Submission deadline: *January 15th, 2020*
Notification: February 15th, 2020
Camera ready: March 6th, 2020
Workshop Day: 27th April, 2020

Features:
- Best Paper Award (BPA)
- 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 UAVs and control will be invited to
submit an extended paper to the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network
Systems (IEEE TCNS).
- Technical sponsorship of the IEEE Special Interest Group (SIG) on
Cognitive Communications and Networking in Cyber-Physical Systems.

EDAS link for submissions: https://edas.info/N26864
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
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 2020 will serve as
incubator for scientific communities that share a particular research
agenda in the area of the workshopÕs topic. 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
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
- Sensor-robot and robot-robot coordination
- 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
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
It is required that the manuscript follows the standard IEEE camera-ready
format (double column, 10-pt font) and be submitted as a PDF file
(formatted for 8.5-11 inch paper) as well as the requirements set by the
EDAS paper submission system. Submitted paper must be original and
unpublished papers with no longer than 6 pages. The direct link for paper
submission is: https://edas.info/N26864

All accepted papers of INFOCOM (main program and workshops), after being
presented onsite at the conference, will be included in the proceedings to
be submitted for publication in IEEE Xplore.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: January 15th, 2020
Notification: February 15th, 2020
Camera ready: March 6th, 2020
Workshop Day: 27th April, 2020
ORGANIZING COMMITTEES
General Chairs
- Enrico Natalizio, University of Lorraine,
- Yannis Paschalidis, Boston University, USA

Technical Program Chairs
- Kaushik R. Chowdhury, Northeastern University, USA
- Marco Di Felice, University of Bologna, Italy
- Jianping He, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Web and Publicity Chairs
- Angelo Trotta, University of Bologna, Italy

Technical Program Committee (To Be completed)
- Fatemeh Afghah, Northern Arizona University, USA
- Christian Bettstetter, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
- Christelle Caillouet, Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Inria, I3S, France
- Carlos Calafate, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
- Joseph Camp, Southern Methodist University, USA
- Berk Canberk, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
- Arnaud Casteigts, University of Bordeaux, France
- Saptarshi Debroy, City University of New York, USA
- Isabelle Guérin Lassous, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 – LIP, France
- Francesca Guerriero, University of Calabria, Italy
- Shibo He, Zhejiang University, China
- Karin Hummel, JKU Linz, Austria
- Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
- Jorge Ortín, Centro Universitario de la Defensa Zaragoza, Spain
- Shigeru Shimamoto, Waseda University, Japan
- Angelo Trotta, University of Bologna, Italy
- Fabrice Valois, Univ Lyon, INSA Lyon, Inria, CITI, France
- Christian Wietfeld, TU Dortmund University, Germany
- Evsen Yanmaz, Lakeside Labs, Austria
- Nicola Roberto Zema, LRI – Paris 11, France
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