SwarmFEC
Computer Networks & Wireless Communication Computer Security & Cryptography Computing Systems Artificial Intelligence Engineering & Computer Science (General) Game Theory and Decision Science Automation & Control Theory Aviation & Aerospace Engineering Quality & Reliability Robotics
In the last few years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, also known as drones), have been rapidly developed due to device miniaturization and cost reduction. These Aerial cooperative systems can provide fast, cost-effective, and safe solutions for many civil and military applications. Drone swarms, made of highly mobile self-organizing vehicles, are characterized by the coordination and mobility of nodes that can accomplish distributed sensing and actuation tasks. However, these applications may require reliable communication as well as intensive computation leading to high energy consumption. Unfortunately, UAVs are in general battery-powered and are equipped with devices that are not capable of providing a fast and reliable reply to user applications. In this respect, mobile fog and edge computing applied to drone swarm (SwarmFEC) draws an adaptive and agile approach by enabling cross-domain control and management protocols to be deployed, thus revolutionizing the way swarm computation is executed.
This Special Issue aims to push computation and data services toward the edge of the network, closer to the origin of the demand in order to mitigate network load as well as improve service quality by reducing end-to-end latency and overall backhaul bandwidth demand. Potential research directions are fostered for this Special Issue, ranging from security and privacy issues to SwarmFEC deployment, from mobility management to resource optimization, and from joint coordination of aerial vehicles to wireless communications.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
Dr. Angelo Trotta, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy
Dr. Gokhan Secinti, Computer Engineering Department - İstanbul Technical University (ITU), Turkey
Prof. Marco Di Felice, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy
Prof. Zhangyu Guan, Department of Electrical Engineering, University at Buffalo, NY, USA
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