Dear all,
 
I trust this email finds you well.
 
Please consider submitting your original research papers to iFIRE---an ACM workshop co-located with ACM MobiHoc 2019---in the wonderful city of Catania (Italy).
 
Hereafter you can find more details.

Deadline: April, 7 2019!!
 


Vincenzo
 
 
 
iFIRE - ACM Workshop on innovative aerial communication solutions for FIrst REsponders network in emergency scenarios
 
Co-located with ACM MobiHoc 2019
 
July 2, 2019, Catania, Italy
 
http://ifire.neclab.eu <http://ifire.neclab.eu/>
 
 
Call for Papers
The public safety is a timely topic that has showed its paramount importance after the major human-driven and natural disasters witnessed during the last few years. According to the American Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the majority of the victims in many different scenarios are untrained rescuers and even professional first responders. Accurate information gathered from sensors may allow first-responders and volunteers to make better and faster decisions, understand the situation, identify the rescue actions with higher success probability, correctly allocate resources such as number of ambulances, and prevent or mitigate personal risks. Today, even commonly available technologies, such as cellular phones, could save many lives if properly adopted. 
 
There is a compelling need of exploring the feasibility of new technologies, explicitly designed for working in emergency scenarios. Recently in this wide context, the aerial communication has significantly progressed due to longer battery life-time, new international law regulations and microelectronics evolution with lower prices and higher performance. In particular, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can easily and quickly reach far-away locations, scan carefully the area looking for injured people and autonomously create a communication bridge between first responder networks and victims. However, there are several unaddressed challenges on both communication and computational means that might further improve the reactiveness and efficiency of the first response after a natural disaster or human-driven threat.
 
The workshop is focused on main upcoming activities about the involvement of UAVs as emergency communication means during emergency situations. It is open to both scientific and industrial communities, and will disclose the latest research achievements in the research field of fine-grained localization, advanced communication between moving objects and optimal UAV-cell coverage. The main motivation is to gather people involved in public safety innovative actions, encompassing both the mathematical frameworks and realistic solutions to bring intelligence and efficiency on board of UAVs.
 
The scope of the workshop includes (but is not limited to) the following topics:
 
-   Integration of aerial recovery networks in 5G New Radio (5G-NR)
-   Design and Implementation of self-organized aerial networks for disaster recovery
-   Mobility and traffic predictions for Disaster recovery networks
-   Edge and Fog computing for the Disaster recovery aerial networks
-   Energy management strategies for public safety networks
-   Trajectory planning and handover management for public safety aerial networks
-   Network slicing for aerial public safety networks to support low-latency response
-   Advanced localization technique using UAVs
-   Age-of-Information aware scheduling for public safety networks
-   Dynamic spectrum allocation and overlay network formation for public safety networks
-   Mobility diversity enhancement mechanisms for UAV networks
-   Experimental case-studies and simulation frameworks for public safety networks
-   Performance characterization for aerial public safety networks.
 
 
Important Dates
Workshop paper submission: April 7, 2019
Notification of papers acceptance: May 5, 2019
Camera-ready submission: May 12, 2019
Workshop Co-Chairs
Vincenzo Sciancalepore (NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH, Germany)
Marco di Renzo (CNRS / Paris-Saclay University, France)
Syed Zaidi (University of Leeds, UK)
Toktam Mahmoodi (King's College London, UK)
Keynote speakers
Prof. Robert Richardson (Professor of Robotics, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds, UK)
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