-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Deadline EXTENDED to JULY 19 - 2nd Int. IEEE Workshop on Wireless Networking for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Datum: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:21:01 +0200 Von: IEEE GC'11 Wi-UAV christian.wietfeld@tu-dortmund.de An: tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu

We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ________________________________________________________________________ Wi-UAV 2011 2nd Int. IEEE Workshop on Wireless Networking for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles: Architectures, Protocols and Applications in conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM 2011

Houston, Texas, USA WORKSHOP DATE: DECEMBER 05, 2011 FURTHER EXTENDED PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JULY 19, 2011 (firm deadline)

Dear colleagues,

the 2nd international IEEE workshop on Wireless Networking for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (Wi-UAV 2011, 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, 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. Due to many requests, the deadline for submissions has been extended by another 2 days. The extended deadline for submission via the EDAS system is: July 19, 2011 (firm).

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 (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 UVs - 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), 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 19, 2011 (FIRM!) 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

Best regards Wi-UAV 2011 Workshop Organizers Jonathan How and Christian Wietfeld www.wi-uav.org

-------------------------------------------------------- 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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