6th International Workshop on

Wireless Sensors and Drones in the Internet of Things (Wi-DroIT) 2024

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

April 29 - May 1, 2024

co-located with DCOSS 2024

Submission link: click here

Scope

Recently, the rapid development of Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, has highlighted a plethora of emergent applications such as infrastructure inspection and surveillance, smart agriculture, seek and rescue, parcel delivery, communications, and post-disaster recovery. In all these applications UAVs may coexist with ground Internet of Things (IoT) devices. For example, UAVs autonomously perform remote sensing relaying the collected data by the sensors. Additionally, one or more UAVs can collaborate to provide services that require efficient protocols where multiple objectives and constraints need to be considered.

For this workshop, we seek papers that combine the design of algorithms and testbed implementations to develop the theoretical foundations for UAVs as well as the synergies with IoT devices. The numerous emergent applications raised by IoT may require an interdisciplinary approach involving techniques from algorithm foundations and different areas, such as computer networks, artificial intelligence, concurrent, parallel, and distributed computing, security, digital signal, image, and sound processing.

Topics of Interest

  • Autonomous sensing via UAVs
  • Topology monitoring with UAVs
  • Remote sensing networks via UAVs
  • Communication protocols of UAVs over IoT
  • Modeling and analysis of UAVs over IoT
  • Precision agriculture and UAVs
  • Crops monitoring in agriculture
  • Bugs monitoring in agriculture
  • UAVs for environmental monitoring
  • Autopilot and UAS autonomy
  • UAVs path planning and scheduling
  • Parcel delivery using UAVs
  • Cellular networks and UAVs
  • Constrained and multi-objectives problems
  • Sensors localization with UAVs
  • UAVs tracking techniques
  • Cooperative control of multiple UAVs
  • Cyber-security communications and UAVs
  • Optimal UAV deployment strategies
  • Test-beds and experimental results for UAVs
  • Single UAV applications
  • Multi-UAV applications
  • Energy-efficient UAV communications
  • Machine learning for UAV communications

Important dates

  • Paper Submission: March 1, 2024
  • Acceptance Notification: March 15, 2024
  • Camera Ready Deadline: March 29, 2024

Author information

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on distributed sensor systems related to Wi-DroIT topics of interest.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 here:

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.

Committees

Workshop Chairs

  • Evgenii Vinogradov: Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates
  • Federico Corò: University of Padova, Italy
  • Nirnay Ghosh: Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur, India

Steering Committee

  • Enrico Natalizio: Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates
  • Cristina M. Pinotti: University of Perugia, Italy
  • Francesco Betti Sorbelli: University of Perugia, Italy

Program Committee

  • Alessandro Brighente: University of Padova
  • Alfredo Navarra: Università degli Studi di Perugia
  • Antonis Savva: KIOS Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence, University of Cyprus
  • Chengyi Qu: Florida Gulf Coast University
  • Dimitrios Zorbas: Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
  • Eirini Tsiropoulou: University of New Mexico
  • Lars Wolf: TU Baunschweig
  • Lorenzo Palazzetti: Università degli Studi di Firenze
  • Luca Davoli: University of Parma
  • Nicola Roberto Zema: University of Paris-Saclay
  • Pietro Tedeschi: Technology Innovation Institute
  • Punyasha Chatterjee: Jadavpur University
  • Savio Sciancalepore: Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)
  • Tathagata Mukherjee: University of Alabama in Huntsville
  • Sajjad Ghobadi: University of Perugia

Publicity Chair

  • Lorenzo Palazzetti: Università degli Studi di Firenze

Web Chair

  • Pulak Majumdar: Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur, India

Program

10:30-10:35: Workshop opening

Session: 1 [Chair: Evgenii Vinogradov]

10:35 - 10:55: “Optimizing RF-Sensing for Drone Detection: The Synergy of Ensemble Learning and Sensor Fusion”, Laiba Tanveer, Muhammad Zeshan Alam, Maham Misbah, Farooq Alam Orakazi, Ahmed Alkhayyat and Zeeshan Kaleem

10:55 - 11:15: “Should I Stay or Should I Go: A Learning Approach for Drone-based Sensing Applications”, Giorgos Polychronis, Manos Koutsoubelias and Spyros Lalis

11:15 - 11:35: “A Bi-Layer Joint Training Reinforcement Learning Framework for PostDisaster Rescue”, Songjun Huang, Chuanneng Sun, Jie Gong and Dario Pompili

11:35 - 11:55: “A Multi-task Transformer Architecture for Drone State Identification and Trajectory Prediction”, Nikolas Souli, Andreas Palamas, Tania Panayiotou, Panayiotis Kolios and Georgios Ellinas

11:55 - 12:15: “Optimizing UAV Base Station Positioning Through Quantum-Inspired Solution Workflow”, M Saravanan and Viswanath Pathmanaban

12:15 - 12:35: “Differentiated QoS DDPG-based Slicing and Drone Positioning for Next Generation Networks”, Ghoshana Bista, Abbas Bradai and Emmanuel Moulay

12:35 - 13:00: Invited Talk: Francesco Betti Sorbelli, “A Comprehensive Pest Monitoring System for Brown Marmorated Stink Bug

13:00 - 14:00: Lunch

Session: 2 [Chair: Evgenii Vinogradov]

14:00 - 14:55: Keynote Talk: “Automating Digital Twins in IoT-Drone Ecosystems” Prof. Marco Di Felice, Università di Bologna, Italy

14:55 - 15:15: “Risk Assessment in BVLoS Operations for UAVs: Challenges and Solutions”, Francesco Betti Sorbelli, Punyasha Chatterjee, Papiya Das and Maria Cristina Pinotti

15:15 - 15:30: Coffee break

Session: 3 [Chair: Francesco Betti Sorbelli]

15:30 - 15:50: “Experimental analysis of Wi-Fi-based remote control of UAVs with concurrent mission traffic”, Thierry Arrabal, Théotime Balaguer, Isabelle Guérin-Lassous and Olivier Simonin

15:50 - 16:10: “Empirical evaluation of multi UAV coverage path planning for aerial surveying” , Jamie Wubben, Jo˜ao P. Matos-Carvalho, D´ario Pedro and Slavisa Tomic

16:10 - 16:30: “An Over the Air Software Update System for IoT Microcontrollers based on WebAssembly”, Ivan Zyrianoff, Luca Sciullo, Lorenzo Gigli, Angelo Trotta, Carlos Alberto Kamienski and Marco Di Felice

16:30 - 16:50: “A Deep Learning-based Pest Insect Monitoring System for Ultra-low Power Pocket-sized Drones”, Luca Crupi, Luca Butera, Alberto Ferrante and Daniele Palossi

16:50 - 17:10: “An Adaptive Drone-based Multigenerational Sensor System for Monitoring Large Ecosystems” , Ravi Mukkamala, Stephan Olariu, Meshari Aljohani, Mohan Sunkara and Hind Aldabagh,

17:10-17:15: Closing Remarks

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