JSAC 2012 - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Communications Challenges and Dynamics for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles

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Deadline: July 01, 2011 | Date: February 01, 2012

Venue/Country: CALL FOR PAPERS, U.S.A

Updated: 2011-04-07 12:17:43 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Communications Challenges and Dynamics for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles

Scope of Proposal

Over recent years there has been increasing interest and engineering activity from academia, industry and governments in the design and

deployment of Autonomous Unmanned (anywhere) Vehicles that are designed to operate underwater, airborne or across land/ice surfaces.

Such AUxV platforms vary in architecture, capability, application and power and will have a variety of on-board sensors or attachments to

support their role. The application scenarios may include search and rescue, threat surveillance, chemical/bio hazard sampling, underwater

mine detection, bridging communications for ground command and control, natural disaster monitoring, emergency response target and

report, border imaging or flood monitoring. Regardless of the role, all AUxVs share a set of common challenges including their

communications strategy between each other and with command and control stations; hardware/software component resource management;

communications signal outages and communications protocol failure; component power constraints, channel interference and ensuring safe

operation in flight/swarm mode. Future deployments of AUxVs will see an increase in the level of autonomous functionality and behaviour

as the human operators transition from being “in the loop” to “on the loop”, and this necessitates increased levels of robustness and real-time

self management. In such situations, the complexity of coping with communications dynamics and failure when operating autonomously is

further compounded when deployed in swarm configurations. As such, rapid fluctuations in the network topology may occur as a result of

agents moving apart or when wireless transmissions are blocked by terrain features or atmospheric conditions. The planning and control of

these AUxVs depends on good situational awareness and the communication network is used to enable coordinated estimation, path

planning, and observation models. This Special Issue proposal is designed to stimulate further research that addresses the coupled problem

of controlling a network of autonomous AUxVs, rather than the traditional paradigm of controlling autonomous components over a network.

The goal of this special issue is to report on state-of-the-art multi-disciplinary research and achievements which address key dynamics for

AUxVs communications and networks that are different from ground-based MANETS and WSNs. For example, whilst much MANET

research has addressed issues of connectivity between nodes whose movement is independent of that connectivity, there is the possibility

with AUxVs to cause nodes to move specifically to create bridges, repair routes, and maintain state. We are seeking papers that describe

high-quality, original, and previously unpublished novel contributions.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

Radio signal propagation models for AUxV collision avoidance

Optical data communications architectures for high altitude endurance AUxVs

Ad-hoc routing protocols for dynamic AUxVs

AUxV swarm inter-networking and collaboration protocols

AUxV command and control protocols

AUxV self-protection and safety management protocols

AUxV self-configuration, self healing, self-optimization

Network management for cooperative AUxV communications

Trial systems and AUxV Testbeds

Review and Publication Schedule

Prospective authors should prepare their submissions in accordance with the rules specified in the 'Information for Authors' section of the

JSAC guidelines (http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/Guidelines/info.html ). Prior to submitting their papers for review, authors should make sure

that they understand and agree to adhere to the over-length page charge policy presented in the JSAC guidelines. Authors MUST submit

their manuscripts through the EDAS peer review website http://edas.info and must be in PDF format. The key dates for authors are as

follows:-

Initial paper submission: 7/1/2011

First reviews complete: 11/1/2011

Second reviews complete/acceptance letters sent: 12/16/2011

Final to publisher: 2/1/2012

Publication: Second quarter 2012

Senior Guest Editors:

Professor Gerard Parr Professor Steve Hailes

School of Computing and Information Engineering Department of Computer Science

University of Ulster University College London , UK

Coleraine, Northern Ireland s.hailescs.ucl.ac.uk

gp.parrulster.ac.uk

Professor Jonathan How Professor Joe McGeehan

Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Director

Aerospace Controls Laboratory Centre for Communications Research

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA University of Bristol, England

jhowmit.edu j.p.mcgeehanbristol.ac.uk

Professor Y Jay Guo

Theme Leader, Broadband for Australia

Director, Wireless Technologies Laboratory

CSIRO ICT Centre

Australia

Jay.Guocsiro.au

cfp: http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/Calls/UnmannedAutonomousVehiclesCFP.pdf