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**CALL FOR PAPERS**

Dear Researchers/Authors,

You are invited to submit your high-quality research findings to the 6th International Workshop on Wireless Sensors and Drones in the Internet of Things (Wi-DroIT 2024)

Date: April 29 - May 1, 2024

Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Wi-DroIT co-located with DCOSS 2024

Website: https://widroit2024.github.io

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=widroit2024

**SCOPE** Recently, the rapid development of Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, has highlighted a plethora of emergent applications such as infrastructure inspection and surveillance, smart agriculture, seek and rescue, parcel delivery, communications, and post-disaster recovery. In all these applications UAVs may coexist with ground Internet of Things (IoT) devices. For example, UAVs autonomously perform remote sensing relaying the collected data by the sensors. Additionally, one or more UAVs can collaborate to provide services that require efficient protocols where multiple objectives and constraints need to be considered.

For this workshop, we seek papers that combine the design of algorithms and testbed implementations to develop the theoretical foundations for UAVs as well as the synergies with IoT devices. The numerous emergent applications raised by IoT may require an interdisciplinary approach involving techniques from algorithm foundations and different areas, such as computer networks, artificial intelligence, concurrent, parallel, and distributed computing, security, digital signal, image, and sound processing.

**TOPICS OF INTEREST** - Autonomous sensing via UAVs - Topology monitoring with UAVs - Remote sensing networks via UAVs - Communication protocols of UAVs over IoT - Modeling and analysis of UAVs over IoT - Precision agriculture and UAVs - Crops monitoring in agriculture - Bugs monitoring in agriculture - UAVs for environmental monitoring - Autopilot and UAS autonomy - UAVs path planning and scheduling - Parcel delivery using UAVs - Cellular networks and UAVs - Constrained and multi-objectives problems - Sensors localization with UAVs - UAVs tracking techniques - Cooperative control of multiple UAVs - Cyber-security communications and UAVs - Optimal UAV deployment strategies - Test-beds and experimental results for UAVs - Single UAV applications - Multi-UAV applications - Energy-efficient UAV communications - Machine learning for UAV communications

**IMPORTANT DATES** Paper Submission: February 16, 2024 Acceptance Notification: March 8, 2024 Camera Ready Deadline: March 29, 2024

We look forward to seeing you at the 6th International Workshop on Wireless Sensors and Drones in the Internet of Things.

Sincerely,

Lorenzo Palazzetti PhD Student Computer Science University of Florence, Italy