IEEE Global Communications Conference
9-13 December 2019 // Waikoloa, HI, USA
Revolutionizing Communications

WS-08: Intelligent Wireless Emergency Communications Networks (IWECN)

WS-08: Intelligent Wireless Emergency Communications Networks (IWECN)

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The Workshop on "Intelligent Wireless Emergency Communications: Theory, Application, and System" provides a forum for discussions of the theoretical foundations and original technical contributions of emergency wireless communications/networks as well as brings together industry and academia, engineers, and researchers.

The emerging fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks aim at ensuring that various contemporary wireless applications can be timely and satisfactorily served in any time, any place, and any way. Nowadays, the 5G mobile wireless communications and networks are rapidly developing and are expected to be extensively deployed after 2020. However, even with well-developed infrastructure, there still has a long way for wireless networks to achieve the goal of communicating in any time and any place. For example, after some unforeseen disaster, such as earthquakes or floods, the traditional communication infrastructure may be unavailable or seriously disrupted and overloaded. Under such circumstances, rapidly deployable network solutions are needed to restore connectivity and provide assistance to users and first responders in accident/incident areas.

Having noticed the importance of communications at post-disaster or extremely dangerous scenarios, many countries have started their research plans/projects on emergency communications, which involve a number of specified wireless networks, such as satellite-based space information networks, post-earthquake networks, and unmanned aerial vehicle (UVA) assisted networks. Based on these corresponding projects, a number of academic and industrial researchers are making great efforts on developing efficient architectures/schemes as well as implementing them in various emergency communications scenarios. This workshop is expected to attract a number of high quality papers containing the latest ongoing results. On the other hand, the latest projects results will attract many related researchers to attend the workshop for further discussion.

 

Topics

This workshop will mainly focus on, but not limited to, the following topics:

  • Satellite/aerial/terrestrial assisted architecture for intelligent wireless emergency communications networks
  • Mobile edge infrastructure for disaster emergency communications networks
  • Resource allocation/service management/security analysis/performance analysis for wireless emergency communications networks
  • Network planning and scheduling for intelligent wireless emergency communications networks
  • Artificial intelligence and deep-learning based schemes for wireless emergency communications networks
  • Quality of service provisioning for the emergency communication systems
  • Ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC)/massive Machine Type of Communication (mMTC) assisted emergency communications networks
  • Drone assisted wireless emergency communications networks
  • Medium access control (MAC) protocols designing for wireless emergency communications networks
  • Testing platform for wireless emergency communications.

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