UAVS 2018 - 2018 WORKSHOP ON "INTEGRATING UAVS INTO 5G"

The past few years have witnessed a tremendous increase on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a wide range of civilian and commercial applications. With the number of UAVs expected to increase explosively in the coming years, it is imperative to develop innovative communication technologies not only for supporting reliable and secure UAV remote command and control, but also for enabling high-capacity mission-related information transmission, with potentially densely deployed UAVs. To this end, integrating UAVs into 5G cellular systems is a promising solution, where UAVs with various missions are connected to cellular networks as special aerial users. Thanks to the almost ubiquitous accessibility and high authentication of today's Long-Term Evolution (LTE) and the forthcoming 5G networks, cellular-connected UAV communications are expected to achieve orders-of-magnitude performance improvement over the traditional direct ground-to-UAV communications, in terms of reliability, security, throughput, and operation range. Moreover, the integration of UAVs can also be exploited to improve the communication performance of terrestrial users in 5G, where UAVs such as drones, helikites, and balloons, could be deployed as dedicated aerial flying base stations (BSs), access points (APs), or relays to assist the terrestrial communications. UAV-assisted 5G communications have many promising advantages with numerous potential use cases including public safety, BS offloading, information dissemination and data collection for Internet of Things (IoT), fast service recovery after natural disasters.
The two paradigms of cellular-connected UAV communications and UAV-assisted 5G communications are significantly different from the conventional terrestrial communications, due to the high altitude and mobility of UAVs, the unique channel characteristics of the UAV-ground links, the stringent design constraints imposed by the size, weight, and power (SWAP) limitations of UAVs, as well as the additional design degrees of freedom with joint UAV mobility control and communication resource allocation. This workshop aims to bring together researchers, industry practitioners, and individuals working on the related areas to share their new ideas, latest findings, and state-of-the-art results. Prospective authors are invited to submit original manuscripts on topics including, but not limited to:
Channel measurement and modeling for UAV-ground and UAV-UAV communications
New architecture and communication protocols for cellular-connected UAVs
Spectrum management and multiple access schemes for cellular-connected UAVs
Interference mitigation for cellular-connected UAVs
5G systems with coexisting aerial and ground users
3D beamforming for cellular-connected UAVs
Massive MIMO/millimeter wave communications for cellular-connected UAVs
3D aerial BS placement
Trajectory optimization for UAV-mounted flying BSs/APs/relays
Joint trajectory design and resource allocation for UAV-assisted 5G communications
Spectrum sharing and coordination between aerial and ground BSs
Energy consumption model of UAVs
Energy-efficient UAV communications
Field measurement and prototype results for UAV communication systems