AutoDrive5G 2018 - 1st Workshop on 5G and Cooperative Autonomous Driving

The recent progress on 5G ultra reliable and low latency communications is paving the way to
applications in future autonomous vehicle communications and unlocking new uses cases for enhanced
safe driving at high vehicle speeds, harsh driving conditions, and cooperative driving. A plethora of
techniques and protocols in wireless connectivity, localization and navigation such as 802.11p, LTE-V,
C-V2X, precise positioning, 3D High Definition (HD) maps, augmented reality, Fog computing, Advanced
Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), etc. are proposed or under development to respond to emerging
road safety use cases for 5G communications in vehicular environments.
In the path towards fully autonomous and safe coordinated driving, several requirements should be met,
such as the availability of a sophisticated environment model for accurate driving decisions, full
integration not only with smart road infrastructure but also with satellites and UAVs. Subsequently, it is
crucial to investigate how and up to which point the 5G paradigm, as an enabler of evolved vehicular
services, is able to meet the requirements of autonomous driving, accommodate the emergency of new
roles and behaviors of connected vehicles and handle the heterogeneity of new applications in terms of
data rates, latency and hyper-connectivity.
In the spirit of ICC, this workshop aims at favoring a multidisciplinary, cross-layer perspective to 5G and
autonomous cooperative driving, bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners from
academia and industry.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
· Use case requirements for autonomous vehicles
· Cellular vehicle-to-everything communication
· HD dynamic mapping and accurate positioning
· Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
· ADAS systems for autonomous vehicles
· Fog computing for terrestrial and aerial vehicles
· Fog-based zero-time handover mechanisms
· Caching techniques for enabling ultralow latency services.
· SDN for autonomous driving management
· Named Data Networking (NDN) for autonomous vehicles
· Big Data stream processing and analytics techniques
· Online flight planning and management for drones
· Energy efficient drone-to-drone communications
· Vehicle-to-drone communications
· Interference management for drones
· Future drone operations, such as Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS)
· Intrusion detection systems specific to autonomous vehicles
· Security issues in 5G for autonomous cooperative driving
IMPORTANT DATES:
· Paper submission: January 3rd, 2018
· Notification date: February 21st, 2018
· Final paper due: March 5th, 2018
PAPER SUBMISSION:
Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality original technical contributions for presentation at
the workshop and publication in the IEEE ICC 2018 Proceedings and IEEE Xplore. All submissions
should be written in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages (10-point font)
including figures without incurring additional page charges (maximum 1 additional page with over length
page charge for an additional fee, if accepted) in the standard IEEE two-column conference format.
Papers must be registered on EDAS and submitted in PDF format using this link:
http://edas.info/N24163
Detailed submission instructions are available at the workshop website: AutoDrive5G.hevs.ch
General Chair:
Ridha Soua, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Program Chairs:
Maria Rita Palattella, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland
Gianluca Rizzo, HES SO Valais, Switzerland