2nd International Workshop on

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and IoT (UAV-IoT) 2024

September 25, 2024

Co-located with MASS 2024

Submission link: click here

Scope

The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers, engineers, and practitioners from academia and industry to share their latest research findings and practical experiences in the area of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and its synergy with Internet of Things (IoT). The workshop will provide a platform to discuss the challenges and opportunities of UAVs and IoT integration, their applications, and their impact on various domains such as transportation, agriculture, healthcare, and environmental monitoring. Over the past decade, advances in Internet of Things, edge computing and wireless communication have led to the evolution of advanced form of smart systems to utilize our resources intelligently. Originated from RFID and wireless sensor networks (WSNs), the paradigm of IoT has been transforming every aspect of human life including healthcare, energy, transportation, manufacturing and entertainment. Recently, the rapid development of UAVs, like aerial drones, or any other automated carriers on road, has highlighted a plethora of emergent applications such as infrastructure inspection, surveillance, smart agriculture, search and rescue, parcel delivery, communications, post-disaster recovery, and many more. In all these applications UAVs may coexist and synergize with Internet of Things (IoT). For energy-constrained sensor devices of IoT, UAVs may collect the data and communicate it to other devices that are out of the communication ranges. Also, using IoT technologies, UAVs may autonomously perform remote sensing relaying either the raw data by the sensors, or an aggregated view using edge computing to reduce latency and communication overhead. Additionally, one or more UAVs can collaborate to provide services that require efficient protocols where multiple objectives and constraints need to be considered. Moreover, with the rising concern of global warming, care should be taken to make these emerging applications green, sustainable and eco-friendly.

This workshop will consider the research works that combine the design of algorithms and testbed implementations to develop the theoretical foundations for UAVs as well as the synergies with IoT devices.

Topics of Interest

The workshop will focus on the following (but not limited to) topics:

  • UAV-Enabled Sensor Networks

  • Energy-aware Applications of UAV and IoT

  • Communication protocols of UAVs over IoT

  • Autopilot and UAS autonomy

  • UAVs path planning and scheduling

  • Cellular networks and UAVs

  • Test-beds and experimental results for UAV and IoT

  • Energy-efficient UAV communications

  • Green and sustainable applications of UAVs with IoT

  • Battery and energy management in UAV-based networks

Important Dates

  • Paper Submission: Friday, June 21, 2024 (11:59pm AoE) Wednesday, July 8, 2024 (11:59pm AoE)
  • Acceptance Notification: Friday, July 26, 2024
  • Camera Ready Deadline: Friday, August 9, 2024
  • Workshop Day: Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Author Information

Prospective authors are invited to submit original and unpublished research papers that are not currently under review elsewhere. The papers should be written in English and should not exceed 6 pages in length. The papers should follow the IEEE conference format. All papers will be reviewed by the program committee and accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.

Special Issue

A few selected papers of UAV-IoT 2024 will be invited to submit their extended workshop paper version to the ACM Journal on Autonomous Transportation Systems special issue on “Applications-Driven UAV Routing and Scheduling Algorithms for Autonomous Transportation Systems”.

Details about the SI can be found here.

Committees

Workshop Chairs

  • Punyasha Chatterjee: Jadavpur University, India
  • Federico Corò: University of Padova, Italy

Steering Committee

  • Pinotti Maria Cristina: University of Perugia, Italy
  • Sajal K. Das: Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
  • Ljiljana Trajkovic: Simon Fraser University, Canada

Program Committee

  • Francesco Betti Sorbelli: University of Perugia, Italy
  • Subhasis Bhattacharjee: IIT Jammu, India
  • Sunanda Bose: Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
  • Sandip Chakraborty: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
  • Sajjad Ghobadi: University of Perugia, Italy
  • Michela Meo: Politecnico di Torino, Italy
  • Lorenzo Palazzetti: University of Florence, Italy
  • Nirmalya Roy: University of Maryland, USA
  • Simone Silvestri: University of Kentucky, USA
  • Koushik Sinha: University Carbondale, USA
  • Eirini Tsiropoulou: University of New Mexico, USA

Publicity Chair

  • Avirup Das: Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore

Web Chair

  • Salah Eddine Merzougui: University of Padova, Italy
  • Mirko Franco: University of Padova, Italy

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