-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call for Papers: Workshop SoCoDiS at NetSys 2013 Datum: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:45:26 +0200 Von: Waldhorst, Oliver (TM) waldhorst@KIT.EDU Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" KUVS-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE An: KUVS-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE

***************************************************************

Call for Papers --- Submission deadline Nov 5, 2012

Workshop on

Self-organized Communication in Disaster Scenarios (SoCoDiS 2013)

in conjunction with Networked Systems (NetSys) 2013

Stuttgart, Germany, March 11-15, 2013

***************************************************************

Scope =====

In disaster scenarios, such as natural disasters or terroristic strikes, it is very important for rescue teams to get an overview of the current situation. To get that overview as quick as possible and to coordinate the rescue teams during their mission, it is essential that the teams are able to communicate with each other. However, as the disaster area is unknown and the previous communication infrastructure may be broken, the rescue teams ideally have to bring their own communication equipment to set up an independent infrastructure.

Such an infrastructure may be based on small, fast, and autonomously flying Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) that are able to fly over affected areas. These devices carry network equipment that creates an ad-hoc communication network infrastructure among all UAVs, dedicated for the rescue teams. Such a basic communication system can be used to coordinate the teams, to search for people that need help by scanning for isolated cell phones, or to offer new kinds of applications that assist the rescue teams during their work. In the second step, this temporary network can be extended by devices that have more capabilities than UAVs, for example cars or trucks that are able to carrying heavy base stations.

Having such a system would be very beneficial for rescue teams that enter large-scale disaster areas. However, as each disaster scenario is different and each deployment poses different challenges, it must be possible to adapt such a communication system to the specific needs of arbitrary disaster scenarios easily.

Requirements of such a system include: * adaptation to arbitrary disaster scenarios, e. g. by defining missions in a dedicated language, * having a communication scheme among the nodes that copes with mobility, * offering basic services for common tasks, e. g. scanning for infrastructure remains, and * it has to incorporate self-organized algorithms, to follow missions autonomously.

This workshop will cover aspects of such communication architectures dedicated to disaster scenarios as a whole. It brings together researchers working on different layers of communication systems, as working on such an architecture benefits from knowledge regarding a broad set of aspects.

Workshop Topics ===============

The workshop solicits contributions regarding novel and possibly preliminary research results related, but not limited to the following list of topics:

==== Autonomous operation of UAVs, to assist rescue teams ====

* Hard- and software architectures for UAV systems * Mission planning languages * Autonomous execution of missions * Mobility-aware inter-UAV signaling protocols * Self-organized task allocation among UAVs * Energy management and flight scheduling * Cooperative swarms and formation flights

==== Communication in disaster scenarios ====

* Robust TCP/IP communications in MANETs * Interworking between ad-hoc networks and the Internet, e.g. via satellite links * QoS support in MANETs for rescue teams * Middlewares * Services * Routing * Delay tolerant networks

==== Reconnaissance and repair ==== * Detection of infrastructures, data collection * Data management, data fusion and refinement * Security and privacy aspects in disaster relieve networks * Interaction with remaining network infrastructures, e.g. WiFi, GSM, UMTS, LTE

Workshop Organization =====================

Florian Evers, Ilmenau University of Technology, florian.evers@tu-ilmenau.de Tobias Simon, Ilmenau University of Technology, tobias.simon@tu-ilmenau.de Andreas Mitschele-Thiel, Ilmenau University of Technology, mitsch@tu- ilmenau.de

Program Committee =================

Jochen Seitz (TU Ilmenau, Germany) Jochen Schiller (FU Berlin) Oliver Waldhorst (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Verena Hafner (HU Berlin, Germany) Volker Zerbe (FH Erfurt, Germany) Christian Bettstetter (Universität Klagenfurt, Austria) Hans Peter Geering (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) Christian Wietfeld (TU Dortmund, Germany)

Submissions and important dates ===============================

Submission deadline: Nov 5, 2012 Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socodis2013 Notification of authors: Dec 3, 2012 Camera-ready copy: Dec 21, 2012

Each submission will be reviewed by three members of the program committee. Papers are selected according to their originality, quality, and relevance to the workshop topics.

Papers have be submitted in PDF format via the NetSys2013 submission system. Contributions should present novel and possibly preliminary research results (up to 12 pages, 12 pt, a4, single-column IEEE format).

Accepted papers will be published as a technical report of the Ilmenau University of Technology, available online and via ISBN. Authors have to deliver the LaTeX source code of their accepted paper. Thus, submissions have to be created with LaTeX based on the ieeetran class.