Christian Wietfeld Christian.Wietfeld@tu-dortmund.de schrieb:

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Wi-UAV 2011

Architectures, Protocols and Applications

in conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM 2011

Houston, Texas, USA

WORKSHOP DATE: DECEMBER 05 or 09, 2011

PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JULY 07, 2011

Dear colleagues,

the 2nd international IEEE workshop on Wireless Networking for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (Wi-UAV 2011, http://www.wi-uav.org http://www.wi-uav.org), co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM 2011), will be held in Houston, Texas, USA on December 05 or 09, 2011.

You are kindly invited to submit your research paper to this workshop and discuss current innovative technological advances in the area of networking solutions for unmanned autonomous systems.

The deadline for submission via the EDAS system is: July 07, 2011.

Aims and Scope:

Unmanned systems are increasingly used in a large number of contexts to support humans in dangerous and difficult-to-reach environments, e.g. ground-based robotics, aerial sensor systems, space and underwater applications. In order to fulfill challenging tasks, visionary scenarios foresee unmanned vehicles to be organized in networked teams and even swarms. The corresponding wireless networks must provide highly reliable and delay-tolerant control links for the management of the behavior of the unmanned vehicles' behavior as well as data links to reliably transfer telemetry and sensor data respectively. At the same time, unmanned vehicles offer the capability to provide ad-hoc wireless networks, for example to compensate network outages in case of public events and large scale incidents.

The successful first workshop at GLOBECOM 2010 focused mainly on unmanned aerial vehicles ( http://www.wi-uav.org www.wi-uav.org). This year's workshop addresses any kind of unmanned autonomous systems. The workshop aims to discuss most recent results of various international research initiatives on new communications networks enabling the efficient operation of teams of unmanned vehicles/systems operating on the ground, in the air, underwater and in space scenarios. Contributions addressing heterogeneous scenarios, e.g. combination of aerial and underwater devices are highly welcome.

Topics:

. Communication technologies and protocols for Unmanned Vehicles

. Interworking with satellites and terrestrial networks

. Maritime and underwater communication

. Cooperation of ground, aerial and maritime unmanned vehicles

. Agent based mobility, multi-platform control, cognitive capabilities and swarming

. Network architectures for UVs and mesh networking

. Localization and vision based sense-and-avoid

. Mini / Micro UAVs and enhanced Health Management

. Channel models and antenna design for UVs

. Use of civilian networks for UVs communication

. Interfaces and cross platform communication

. Communication for navigation, control and guidance

. Mission control centers and backend communication

. QoS mechanisms and performance evaluation

. Advances in remote sensing: miniaturization, low-weight and energy efficient communication

. Advances in antenna design and MIMO systems

. Aerial sensing, surveillance and reconnaissance

. Air traffic control and spectrum regulation

. Standardization, applications and services

. Results from prototypes, test-beds and demonstrations (incl. live demos during workshop)

Submission Guidelines and Publication:

GLOBECOM workshops accept only original, previously unpublished papers.

Concurrent submission to GLOBECOM and other conferences or journals is not allowed. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit papers in IEEE conference style up to 5 pages through EDAS submission system ( http://edas.info/N10863; http://edas.info/N10863), but one additional page is allowed with additional publication fee.

Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE digital library (IEEE Xplore). An accepted paper must be registered before the registration deadline. An accepted paper should be presented at the workshop. Failure to register before the deadline will result in automatic withdrawal of the paper from the workshop proceedings and the program. GLOBECOM will remove an accepted and registered but not presented paper from the IEEE digital library.

Important Dates:

Submission due: July 07, 2011 (Thursday)

Decision notification due: August 15, 2011 (Monday)

Camera-ready and registration due: August 31, 2011 (Wednesday)

Organizing Chairs:

Prof. Jonathan How

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Prof. Christian Wietfeld

TU Dortmund University, Germany

Program Committee:

Prof. Christian Bettstetter, University of Klagenfurt and Lakeside Labs, Austria

Prof. Liang Cheng, Lehigh University, USA

Renzo De Nardi, University College London, United Kingdom

Gilles Fournier, EADS Innovation Works, France

Prof. Eric Frew, University of Colorado, USA

Prof. Eytan Modiano, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Prof. Gerard Parr, University of Ulster, United Kingdom

Prof. Paul Scerri, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Prof. Shigeru Shimamoto, Waseda University, Japan

Prof. Antonios Tsourdos, Cranfield University, United Kingdom

Prof. Kimon Valavanis, University of Denver, USA

Dario Vlah, Ph.D., Harvard University, USA

Prof. Luiz Vieira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Yifeng Zhou, Ph.D., Communications Research Centre, Canada

To be completed

Best regards

Wi-UAV 2011 Workshop Organizers

Jonathan How and Christian Wietfeld

http://www.wi-uav.org www.wi-uav.org

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Jonathan P. How

Richard C. Maclaurin Professor of Aeronautics and

Astronautics Aerospace Controls Laboratory (Director), and

Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

33-326, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA02139

http://acl.mit.edu/

Christian M. Wietfeld

Full Professor of Communication Networks

Head of Communication Networks Institute (CNI)

TU Dortmund University

Otto-Hahn-Str. 6, D-44227 Dortmund

http://www.cni.tu-dortmund.de

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