Program

Time

Item

Author

09:00 - 09:05

Introduction (Chairs)

 

09:05 - 09:45

Key Note Session:

Prof. Brian M. Argow, Director of the Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles (RECUV), University of Colorado, USA.

09:45 - 10:30

Technical Session 1

Aerial Channel Analysis and Physical Data Links

 

Avoid Communication Outages in Decentralized Planning

Olivier Huber; Han-Lim Choi; Jonathan How; Sameera Ponda

 

Coverage Evaluation of Wireless Networks for Unmanned Aerial Systems

Niklas Goddemeier; Kai Daniel; Christian Wietfeld

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

 

11:00 - 12:30

Technical Session 2

Connectivity and Coverage Optimization for UAVs

 

Dynamic UAV Relay Positioning for the Ground-to-Air Uplink

Feng Jiang; Lee Swindlehurst

 

Maintaining Connectivity in UAV Swarm Sensing

Luke Teacy; Jing Nie; Sally I McClean; Gerard P. Parr

 

A Discrete Stochastic Process for Coverage Analysis of Autonomous UAV Networks

Evsen Yanmaz; Carmelo Costanzo; Christian Bettstetter; Wilfried Elmenreich

 

Link Quality Dependent Mobility Strategies for Distributed Aerial Sensor Networks

Sebastian Rohde; Niklas Goddemeier; Kai Daniel; Christian Wietfeld

 

Connectivity of Aeronautical Ad hoc Networks

Hua Li; Bo Yang; Cailian Chen; Xinping Guan

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch break

 

14:00 - 15:30

Technical Session 3

UAV Based Mesh and Sensor Networks for Cooperative UAVs

 

Model-free Trajectory Optimization for Wireless Data Ferries among Multiple Sources

Benjamin Pearre; Timothy Brown

 

Measuring Receiver Diversity on a Low-Altitude UAV in a Ground-to-Air Wireless Mesh Network

HT Kung; Chit-Kwan Lin; Tsung-Han Lin; Steve Tarsa; Dario Vlah

 

Multi-Source Cooperative Communications Using Multiple Small Relay UAVs

Xin Li; Yimin Zhang

 

Performance Analysis of Multi-Carrier Relay-Based UAV Network Over Fading Channels

Ibrahim Y Abualhaol; Mustafa Muhammad Matalgah

15:30 -16:00

Coffee Break

 

16:00 - 17:30

Technical Session 4

System Design Aspects and Protocols for UAV-Based Sensor Networks

 

Moving Ground Target Tracking in Urban Terrain Using Air/Ground Vehicles

Mark Owen; Huili Yu; Tim McLain; Randy Beard

 

UAV-Based Passive Geolocation Based on Channel Estimation

Qilian Liang; Sherwood Samn

 

QoS Constraint with Prioritized Frame Selection CDMA MAC Protocol for WSN Employing UAV

Tu Dac Ho; Jingyu Park; Shigeru Shimamoto

 

Decentralised Cooperative Aerial Surveillance for Harbour Security: A Formal Verification Approach

Gopinadh Sirigineedi; Antonios Tsourdos; Brian White; Peter M G Silson

17:30

End