Wednesday, April 29, 2020

[DMANET] Wi-DroIT 2020 – 2nd International Workshop on Wireless Drones over Internet of Things

Wi-DroIT 2020 – 2nd International Workshop on Wireless Drones over Internet
of Things

June 15-17, 2020

Due to the pandemic, DCOSS 2020 Workshops will be held in an online manner,
without physical attendance. Still, all accepted papers will be included in
the IEEE Proceedings as planned, in the same volume with the main event.
Reduced registration fees will apply.

Link: https://sites.google.com/view/widroit2020

in conjunction with the:
16th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
(DCOSS 2020)

Workshop papers will get 8 pages in the IEEE proceedings, in the same
volume with the DCOSS papers.

Few selected papers will be invited for the:
Special Issue "Routing in Aerial, Underground, and Underwater Wireless
Sensor Networks", of
The journal Sensors (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors)

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=widroit2020

Important Dates
Submission: May 7, 2020
Notification: May 30, 2020
Camera Ready: June 10, 2020

In the last few years, Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (UAVs), have developed
rapidly and have been used for emergent applications that range from
inspection, surveillance, agriculture, cargo delivery, and communications.
The symbiosis between UAVs and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) started
quite naturally: UAVs perform remote sensing, act as data-mule that carry
the data collected by the WSN. Evolving WSN in Internet of Things (IoT)
devices, single or multiple Drones/UAVs can cooperatively provide services
that require efficient protocols where multiple objectives and constraints
should be accounted.

For this workshop, we search for papers that combine design of algorithms,
optimization, and test-bed to develop the theoretical foundations for the
UAV systems operating in symbiosis with WSN in IoT applications. The
numerous emergent applications nurtured by IoT may require an
interdisciplinary approach, involving techniques from algorithm foundations
and different areas, such as robotics, artificial intelligence,
mathematical modeling, machine learning. Possible topics are:

Autonomous WSN via Drones
Topology monitoring of WSN with Drones
Build Remote Sensing Networks via Drones
Communication architectures and protocols of Drones over IoT
Modeling and analysis of Drone systems over IoT
Precision Agriculture
Monitoring crops
Controlling bugs in Agriculture
Drones for environment monitoring
Autopilot and UAS autonomy
UAV mission planning, path planning, and scheduling
Parcel delivery using Drones
4G-5G networks and UAVs
Constraints and multiobjective optimization problems in UAVs
Ground Localization with Drones
Cooperative control of multiple UAVs
UAV secure communication techniques
Optimal UAV deployment strategies
Experimental results, simulators and test beds for drone networks
Single UAV Applications
Multi-UAV Applications
Human Rights and Drones


Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that
demonstrate current research on distributed sensor systems related to
Wi-DroIT topics of interest. Please use the US letter size (8.5 X 11 in)
standard IEEE conference LaTeX format or Microsoft Word template available
on the link below:


http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html


All submissions should be written in English and submitted as a full paper.
Full papers should have a maximum of eight (8) printed pages including
figures and references. Full papers are expected to describe fully
developed ideas with a thorough evaluation.
Note that Wi-DroIT does not follow the double-blind review policy. The
names and affiliations of all the authors must be present in the submitted
manuscript.

Program Chairs
Wan Du, UC Merced, CA, USA
Enrico Natalizio, University of Lorraine/LORIA, France
Cristina M. Pinotti, University of Perugia, Italy

Program Committee
Kaikai Liu, San Jose State University, USA
Shijia Pan, University of California, Merced, USA
Paolo Barsocchi, ISTI-CNR Pisa, Italy
Stefano Carpin, University of California, Merced, USA
Marco Levorato, University of California, Irvine, USA
Tathagata Mukkerjee, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA
Daniele Palossi, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Anil Shende, Roanoke College, USA
Francesco Betti Sorbelli, Missouri S&T University, USA
Farshad Ghanei, University at Buffalo, USA
Vijay Shah, Wireless@Virginia Tech, USA
Ajay Pratap, Missouri S&T University, USA
Simone Silvestri, University of Kentucky, USA
Nirnay Ghosh, IIEST, Shibpur, India
Nicola Roberto Zema, University of Paris-Saclay, France
Angelo Trotta, University of Bologna, Italy
Abolfazl Razi, Northern Arizona University, USA
Dimitrios Zorbas, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland
Lars Wolf, T.U. Braunschweig, Germany
Panagiotis Sarigiannidis, University of Western Macedonia (UOWM),
Greece
Ing-Ray Chen, Virginia Tech, USA


Contact
Francesco Betti Sorbelli, Missouri Science and Technology University,
Rolla, MO, USA; francesco.bettisorbelli@mst.edu

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Francesco Betti Sorbelli

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