RPSCS 2016 - Workshop on Resiliency in Public Safety Communication Systems (RPSCS)

Many of today’s critical networked infrastructures, such as transportation and power systems, rely heavily on
communication technologies and systems. The resiliency of such communication systems in face of natural
disasters, malicious attacks, or even day-to-day wear and tear has become of great importance to maintain the
continuous operation of such critical systems. Resilience can have many definitions that range from the ability
of a communication system to operate under harsh environments or to withstand malicious attacks, all the way
to its adaptability to failures or other unexpected events. In particular, resilience of public safety communication
networks during emergencies can become a matter of life or death, since first responders and public safety
personnel rely heavily on wired and wireless communication capabilities to execute their search and rescue
operations. At the same time, critical infrastructure networks and other civil protection network deployments
need to be highly robust, and function effectively in the presence of dynamically varying external and internal
conditions. The goal of this workshop is to bring together academic and industrial researchers to identify and
discuss technical challenges and recent results related to resilient and robust communication networks, as well
as their applications in public safety and critical infrastructure systems.
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
? New definitions of resiliency as it applies to wired and wireless communication systems.
? Public safety communication (PSC) systems relying on 4G LTE and 5G wireless technologies.
? Public safety spectrum sharing, future spectrum requirements for PSC networks.
? Resiliency studies for PSC networks and infrastructure against natural disasters, and terrorist/cyberattacks.
? Use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for enhancing PSC and communication resiliency.
? Resilient cyber-physical systems and smart cities.
? Synergies between resilient control systems and resilient communication networks.
? Advanced technologies such as device-to-device, multi-hop, and relay-based communications for
enhanced PSC.
? Propagation channel measurements and modeling for PSC.
? Interworking and interoperability between public safety networks and commercial networks.
? Game-theoretic techniques, resource allocation, and power control for resilient and public safety
communications.
? Software defined radio (SDR) testbeds and experimentation on resilient systems.
? Software-defined management and control mechanisms for improving PSC communication resilience.
? The role of cyber-physical systems in resiliency.
? Resilient rapidly deployable communication networks.