2021 ACM MOBICOM WKSHPS: Drone-Assisted Wireless Communications for 5G and Beyond (DroneCom)

[Sahil Garg]

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Call for Papers

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The Second International Workshop on

Drone-Assisted Wireless Communications for 5G and Beyond (DroneCom)           

(in Conjunction with ACM MOBICOM 2021)

October 29, 2021 | Virtual Conference

Submission Deadline: May 21, 2021

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Mobile communication technology is leading towards the deployment of Fifth generation (5G) networks, wherein Internet of Things (IoT) is likely to play a central role. It is expected that 5G deployments will be characterized by increased network density, enhanced capacity, near ubiquitous connectivity, and ultra-reliable and low latency communications, in order to deliver flawless quality of service (QoS) that is essential for IoT to be successful. To deal with these trends and support the growing appetite of data services, mobile backhaul becomes an indispensable solution towards realising a 5G network. Moreover, the emergence of dense heterogeneous networks (HetNets), which are constantly promoted as a prime candidate for 5G evolution, has further provisioned the need of mobile backhaul solutions while making it a critical component of RAN. However, wireless backhauling relies on Small Cell Base Stations (SBSs); wherein the installation of extra terrestrial infrastructures for SBSs may not be an acceptable solution due to the high cost of deployment. Thus, a huge paradigm shift in backhaul network design is highly desirable for 5G networks in order to dynamically manage the increasing traffic demands of SBSs and cater new applications with ease. In this direction, the integration of both terrestrial and aerial network components can be considered a promising solution. Therefore, drone-mounted infrastructure are envisioned to supplement the terrestrial infrastructure while improving flexibility and reliability of backhaul operations. However, in order to reap the full potential of drones in 5G backhaul, it must cope with the inherent challenges like lack of fixed backhual links, multi-drone coordination, collision and crash avoidance, sparsely and intermittently connected network topologies, and moreover limited communication, computation, and endurance capabilities. Therefore, the proposed workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to share their ideas, latest findings, and state-of-the-art results on fostering the promising benefits of drones in 5G wireless networks. Potential topics include, but not limited to the following:

- New architecture/communication protocols for drone-based 5G communications

- Channel modelling for drone-ground and drone-drone communications 

- Simple, scalable and cost effective solutions for drone communications

- Massive MIMO based backhaul solutions 

- Resource management and security mechanisms for drone enabled networking

- SDN and NFV based backhaul architectures 

- Data offloading schemes for heterogeneous small cell networks 

- Resource scheduling in backhaul networks

- Cutting-edge solutions for drone assisted heterogeneous networks 

- Standardization efforts and testbeds for drone communication systems 

- Game theoretical approaches for drone based 5G communications 

- New trends in backhauling 

- AI and ML based architectures for dynamic routing in drone communications

- Authentication and Accounting for drone aided 5G communications

- Energy-aware drone deployment and operation mechanisms

- Interference management techniques for aerial platforms

- Use cases, testing and field trials for drone assisted 5G communications

- Other applications/implementations for integrating drones into 5G and beyond

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: May 21, 2021

Paper Notification: Will be Updated

Camera-ready: July 31, 2021

General Co-Chairs:

- Sahil Garg, École de technologie supérieure, Montreal, Canada (Email: sahil...@ieee.org)

- Dusit (Tao) Niyato, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Email: dni...@ntu.edu.sg)

- Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy (Email: fabrizio...@unitn.it)

- Harpreet Dhillon, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA (Email: hdhi...@vt.edu)

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Submissions to ACM DroneCom 2021 must be original, unpublished work, and not under consideration at another conference or journal. Submitted papers must be at most six (6) pages long, including all figures, tables, references, and appendices in two-column 10pt ACM format. Papers must include authors names and affiliations for single-blind peer reviewing by the PC. Manuscripts should be submitted through the HotCRP at https://dronecom2021.hotcrp.com/

This LaTeX template should be useful in complying with the above requirements, but as an author you bear the final responsibility to verify that your submission is format-compliant. Use \documentclass[sigconf,10pt]{acmart} as header for your submission.

Papers accepted for presentation will be published in the ACM MobiCom/DroneCom 2021 Proceedings, available at the ACM Digital Library.