PIMRC 2023 will be held in person

PIMRC 2023 conference will be held in person 5 – 8 September 2023, in Toronto, Canada.

Authors with an accepted paper who will not be allowed to travel abroad due to strict national rules or Visa issues at the time of the conference will be given the opportunity to present their accepted work remotely.

SwarmNet Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Communication and networking protocols for UAV swarms
• Resilient communication and networking protocols for multi-agent planning and control
• Cross-layer optimization and control of UAV networks
• Delay-tolerant networking for UAVs
• MIMO, mmWave, and THz networking for UAVs
• Network topology control for performance optimization (connectivity, throughput, etc.)
• Wireless localization for UAVs or wireless localization using UAVs
• Communication architectures and technologies for UAV air-traffic control
• UAVs in 5G and beyond networks
• Networking for UAV sensing and applicaitons
• Aerial video streaming for virtual/augmented reality
• Data offloading and mobile edge computing with UAVs
• Spectrum and interference management techniques for UAV networks
• Air-to-air, air-to-ground, and ground-to-air channel modeling for UAVs
• Cyber-security for UAVs
• Trajectory planning and resource management in UAV networks
• UAV swarm network simulation platforms
• Onboard AI for UAV-enabled aerial intelligence
• UAV swarm network simulation platforms, digital twins, testbeds, experimental evaluation, and prototyping

SwarmNet Committees

Organizing Committee
• Nick Mastronarde
  University at Buffalo, USA
• Fatemeh Afghah
  Clemson University, USA
• Vuk Marojevic
  Mississippi State University, USA

Technical Program Committee
• Abolfazl Razi, Clemson University, USA
• Ali Alipour, University at Buffalo, USA
• Charuvahan Adhivarahan, University at Buffalo, USA
• Georgios Sklivanitis, Florida Atlantic University, USA
• Farshad Ghanei, University at Buffalo, USA
• Hao Xu, University of Reno, USA
• Jonathan Ashdown, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
• Joseph Camp, Southern Methodist University, USA
• Kamesh Namuduri, University of North Texas
• Panos P. Markopoulos, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
• Sabur Baidya, University of Louisville, USA
• Zhangyu Guan, University at Buffalo, USA

Workshop Program

Day: Tuesday, 5 September

Time: 9:00 am - 12:30 pm ET (half-day workshop)

Room: Pier 2

• All times are Eastern Time (GMT-4)
• 09:00 – 09:10 Opening remarks
• 09:10 – 10:30 Keynote: Towards Zero-Touch Automated UAV-Enabled NextG Networks Through Digital Twin-Assisted Domain Adaptation, Speaker: Prof. Zhangyu Guan, University at Buffalo, USA
• 10:30 - 11:00 Networking Coffee Break
• 11:00 – 12:30 Accepted and Invited Papers (18 minutes per paper including Q&A)
• [1] 5G Wings: Investigating 5G-Connected Drones Performance in Non-Urban Areas, Authors: Mohammed Gharib, Bryce Hopkins and Jackson Murrin (Clemson University, USA); Andre R Koka (IS-WiN Laboratory, USA); Fatemeh Afghah (Clemson University, USA)
• [2] Cellular Spectrum Occupancy Probability in Urban and Rural Scenarios at Various UAS Altitudes, Authors: Amir Hossein Fahim Raouf, Sung Joon Maeng, Ismail Güvenç, Özgür Özdemir and Mihail Sichitiu (North Carolina State University, USA)
• [3] Dynamic Scheduling for Quality of Information Maximization in Location-Aware Opportunistic Mobile Crowdsensing, Authors: Mozhang Guo and Xianbin Wang (Western University, Canada)
• [4] Invited Paper: Actuator Trajectory Planning for UAVs With Overhead Manipulator Using Reinforcement Learning, Authors: Abolfazl Razi and Hazim Alzorgan (Clemson University, USA); Ata Jahangir Moshayedi (Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, China)
• [5] Invited Paper: Ground-Based Communication Support for Air Corridors, Authors: Kasun Prabhath, Xiang Sun, Sudharman K. Jayaweera and Daniel Manu (University of New Mexico, USA); Karthik Kakaraparty, Sah Pallav and Ifana Mahbub (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Jaya Sravani Mandapaka, Sudesna Das Rochi, Mahdin Meraz and Kamesh Namuduri (University of North Texas, USA)