Scope
The past few years have witnessed a tremendous increase on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a wide range of civilian and commercial applications. With the number of UAVs expected to increase explosively in the coming years, it is imperative to develop innovative communication technologies not only for supporting reliable and secure UAV remote command and control, but also for enabling high-capacity mission-related information transmission, with potentially densely deployed UAVs. To this end, integrating UAVs into 5G cellular systems is a promising solution, where UAVs with various missions are connected to cellular networks as special aerial users. Thanks to the almost ubiquitous accessibility and high authentication of today's Long-Term Evolution (LTE) and the forthcoming 5G networks, cellular-connected UAV communications are expected to achieve orders-of-magnitude performance improvement over the traditional direct ground-to-UAV communications, in terms of reliability, security, throughput, and operation range. Moreover, the integration of UAVs can also be exploited to improve the communication performance of terrestrial users in 5G, where UAVs such as drones, helikites, and balloons, could be deployed as dedicated aerial flying base stations (BSs), access points (APs), or relays to assist the terrestrial communications. UAV-assisted 5G communications have many promising advantages with numerous potential use cases including public safety, BS offloading, information dissemination and data collection for Internet of Things (IoT), fast service recovery after natural disasters.
The two paradigms of cellular-connected UAV communications and UAV-assisted 5G communications are significantly different from the conventional terrestrial communications, due to the high altitude and mobility of UAVs, the unique channel characteristics of the UAV-ground links, the stringent design constraints imposed by the size, weight, and power (SWAP) limitations of UAVs, as well as the additional design degrees of freedom with joint UAV mobility control and communication resource allocation. This workshop aims to bring together researchers, industry practitioners, and individuals working on the related areas to share their new ideas, latest findings, and state-of-the-art results. Prospective authors are invited to submit original manuscripts on topics including, but not limited to:
- Channel measurement and modeling for UAV-ground and UAV-UAV communications
- New architecture and communication protocols for cellular-connected UAVs
- Spectrum management and multiple access schemes for cellular-connected UAVs
- Interference mitigation for cellular-connected UAVs
- 5G systems with coexisting aerial and ground users
- 3D beamforming for cellular-connected UAVs
- Massive MIMO/millimeter wave communications for cellular-connected UAVs
- 3D aerial BS placement
- Trajectory optimization for UAV-mounted flying BSs/APs/relays
- Joint trajectory design and resource allocation for UAV-assisted 5G communications
- Spectrum sharing and coordination between aerial and ground BSs
- Energy consumption model of UAVs
- Energy-efficient UAV communications
- Field measurement and prototype results for UAV communication systems
Workshop Co-Chairs:
- Yong Zeng, National University of Singapore, Singapore, elezeng@nus.edu.sg
- Jie Xu, Guangdong University of Technology, China, jiexu@gdut.edu.cn
Keynote Speaker:
- Rui Zhang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Confirmed Authors for Invited Papers:
- David Gesbert, EURECOM, France
- Robert W. Heath Jr., The University of Texas at Austin, USA
- Nuria González Prelcic, University of Vigo, Spain
- Halim Yanikomeroglu, Carleton University, Canada
DEADLINES:
- Paper Submission Deadline:
January 3, 2018, Extended to January 17, 2018 - Acceptance Notification: February 21, 2018
- Final Paper submission: March 5, 2018
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Submission Guideline: see http://icc2018.ieee-icc.org/authors/call-workshop-papers
Submission link: http://edas.info/N24159
