-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: FIRM deadline July 15, 2014 - GLOBECOM Wi-UAV workshop Datum: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 08:42:45 +0000 Von: christian.wietfeld@tu-dortmund.de christian.wietfeld@TU-DORTMUND.DE Antwort an: christian.wietfeld@tu-dortmund.de christian.wietfeld@TU-DORTMUND.DE An: tccc-announce@COMSOC.ORG

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Wi-UAV 2014 5th Int. IEEE Workshop on Wireless Networking and Control for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles in conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM 2014

Austin, Texas, USA WORKSHOP DATE: DECEMBER 12, 2014 PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JULY 15, 2014 (*** FIRM ***) WEBSITE: www.wi-uav.org

The 5th International IEEE workshop on Wireless Networking and Control for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (Wi-UAV 2014, www.wi-uav.org), co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM 2014), will be held in Austin, Texas, USA on December 12, 2014. The workshop is the interdisciplinary platform to bring together robotics and communications.

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

The *FIRM* deadline for submission via the EDAS system is: July 15, 2014.

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

This fifth edition of the workshop aims to discuss most recent results of various international research projects on new communications networks enabling the efficient control 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 architectures and protocols for unmanned autonomous vehicles communication in challenging environments: air, underwater, etc., indoor/outdoor - Ad-hoc networking, routing, handover and meshing * Cooperation of ground, aerial and maritime unmanned vehicles - Localization and vision based sense-and-avoid * Interfaces and cross platform communication - Agent based mobility, multi-platform control, cognitive capabilities and swarming - Communication and system design - Mini / Micro UAVs and enhanced Health Management - Use of civilian networks for UVs communication - Mission control centers and backend communication - Advances in remote sensing: miniaturization, low-weight and energy efficient communication - QoS mechanisms and performance evaluation - Advances in antenna design and MIMO systems - Interworking with satellites and terrestrial communication - Air traffic control and spectrum regulation - Results from prototypes, test-beds and demonstrations

Key Note The Wi-UAV has a tradition of distinguished key note speakers (see www.wi-uav-org). We are proud that this year Prof. Gregory Huff, Electromagnetics and Microwave Laboratory, Texas A&M University, has agreed to give a keynote talk on innovative, reconfigurable antenna designs for UAVs.

Best Student Paper Award (NEW!) The best of all submitted student papers will be distinguished with a Best Student Paper Award.

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 6 pages through EDAS submission system (http://edas.info/N17567), 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.

Attendance Fee Registration for this year's GLOBECOM workshops is $250, valid for any other IEEE GC'14 workshops that day.

Important Dates: Submission due: July 15, 2014 (Tuesday, FIRM) Decision notification due: September 01, 2014 (Monday) Camera-ready and registration due: October 01, 2014 (Wednesday)

Organizing Chairs: Jonathan How, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Yasamin Mostofi, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA Christian Wietfeld, TU Dortmund University, Germany

Program Committee: Kemal Akkaya, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA Christian Bettstetter, University of Klagenfurt and Lakeside Labs, Austria Torsten Braun, Universität Bern, Switzerland Liang Cheng, Lehigh University, USA Eric W. Frew, University of Colorado, USA Geoffrey Hollinger, Oregon State University, USA Tor Arne Johansen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California, USA Gerard Parr, University of Ulster, United Kingdom Shigeru Shimamoto, Waseda University, Japan Antonios Tsourdos, Cranfield University, United Kingdom Luiz Vieira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Fumin Zhang, Georgia Tech, USA Yifeng Zhou, Communications Research Centre, Canada

-------------------------------------------------------- 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/

Yasamin Mostofi Associate Professor University of California, Santa Barbara Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9560, USA, http://www.ece.unm.edu/

Christian M. Wietfeld Full Professor of Communication Networks Communication Networks Institute (CNI), TU Dortmund University, D-44227 Dortmund, http://www.cni.tu-dortmund.de Wichtiger Hinweis: Die Information in dieser E-Mail ist vertraulich. Sie ist ausschließlich für den Adressaten bestimmt. Sollten Sie nicht der für diese E-Mail bestimmte Adressat sein, unterrichten Sie bitte den Absender und vernichten Sie diese Mail. Vielen Dank. Unbeschadet der Korrespondenz per E-Mail, sind unsere Erklärungen ausschließlich final rechtsverbindlich, wenn sie in herkömmlicher Schriftform (mit eigenhändiger Unterschrift) oder durch Übermittlung eines solchen Schriftstücks per Telefax erfolgen.

Important note: The information included in this e-mail is confidential. It is solely intended for the recipient. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail please contact the sender and delete this message. Thank you. Without prejudice of e-mail correspondence, our statements are only legally binding when they are made in the conventional written form (with personal signature) or when such documents are sent by fax.

______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce@comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/