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<div dir="auto">The 18th International Workshop on Networked Robotics and Communication Systems</div>
<div dir="auto"> (IEEE NetRobiCS 2025, ex WiSARN)</div>
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<div dir="auto"> in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2025, </div>
<div dir="auto"> May 19, 2025, London, UK</div>
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<div dir="auto">WEBSITE</div>
<div dir="auto">https://netrobics2025.nws.cs.unibo.it/</div>
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<div dir="auto">SUBMISSION LINK</div>
<div dir="auto">https://edas.info/N33129</div>
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<div dir="auto">CALL FOR PAPERS </div>
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<div dir="auto">Robotic networks have emerged as a transformative force with the potential to reshape industries, enhance our daily lives, and venture into the most challenging environments on Earth and beyond. At the heart of this transformation lies the critical
aspect of communication and networking, enabling robots to operate effectively, share data and collaborate seamlessly.</div>
<div dir="auto">In this era of interconnected devices, robots rely on advanced communication protocols and networks to function efficiently in diverse environments. Whether in manufacturing, healthcare, autonomous vehicles, or space exploration, the ability
of robots to communicate with each other and with humans is transforming industries and pushing the boundaries of technological innovation.</div>
<div dir="auto">The frontier of research foresees the deployment of highly autonomic and integrated scenarios where heterogeneous ground, aerial and/or marine robots coordinate with each other and with the existing sensing and processing infrastructures to
accomplish complex tasks. On the one side, this implies proposing and investigating novel M2M solutions and network protocols to enable the data communication on the aerial and ground segments while taking into account the novel possibilities offered by the
emerging technologies (e.g. 5G/6G and LEO satellite communications). The communication technologies must be paired with proper control mobility functions to support swarm operations and to instill coordinated behaviors. On the other side, the data processing
on the mobile edges may take advantage of emerging federated and embedded AI techniques to drastically reduce the latency of the decision process while limiting the amount of data transferred from the robotic networks.</div>
<div dir="auto">NetRobiCS aims at bringing together state-of-the-art contributions on the design, specification, and evaluation of architectures, algorithms, applications, and protocols for current and future applications of wireless ground, marine and aerial
robotic networks. Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in design, development and evaluation of wireless ground, marine and aerial robotic networks. </div>
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<div dir="auto">Possible topics include, but are not limited to:</div>
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<div dir="auto">- Aerial, Terrestrial and Marine Drone Communications and Networks</div>
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<div dir="auto">- Infrastructure-to-robot and robot-to-robot communication</div>
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<div dir="auto">- Embedded AI and federated learning solutions in robotic systems</div>
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<div dir="auto">- Energy efficiency and endurance management in robotic networks</div>
<div dir="auto">- Quality of service, security, and robustness issues in robotic networks</div>
<div dir="auto">- Blockchain-enabled robotic systems</div>
<div dir="auto">- Energy-efficient & real-time communication protocols in robotic networks</div>
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<div dir="auto">- Autonomic & self-organizing coordination and communication in robotic networks</div>
<div dir="auto">- Map exploration and pattern formation of mobile robots</div>
<div dir="auto">- Novel applications of robotic networks</div>
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<div dir="auto">FEATURES</div>
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<div dir="auto">- Best Paper Award, with a prize sponsored by the TII</div>
<div dir="auto">- Best-selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a workshop-dedicated Special Issue (SI)</div>
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<div dir="auto"> SUBMISSION RULES</div>
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<div dir="auto">Papers must be formatted in the standard IEEE two-column format that is used by the INFOCOM 2025 main conference and must not exceed 6 pages in length (including references). All submitted papers will go through a peer review process, and all
accepted papers which are presented by one of the authors at the workshop will be published in the IEEE INFOCOM 2025 proceedings and IEEE Xplore.</div>
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<div dir="auto">IMPORTANT DATES</div>
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<div dir="auto">Submission Deadline: December 19, 2024</div>
<div dir="auto">Notification of Acceptance: February 5, 2025</div>
<div dir="auto">Camera Ready: February 26, 2025 </div>
<div dir="auto"> Workshop: May 19, 2025</div>
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<div dir="auto">ORGANIZING COMMITEEE</div>
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<div dir="auto">General Chairs</div>
<div dir="auto">- Enrico Natalizio (Technology Innovation Institute (TII), UAE)</div>
<div dir="auto">- Yannis Paschalidis (Boston University, USA)</div>
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<div dir="auto">Technical Program Chairs</div>
<div dir="auto">- Christelle Caillouet (Université Côte-d'Azur, France)</div>
<div dir="auto">- Marco Di Felice (University of Bologna, Italy)</div>
<div dir="auto">- Marco Levorato (University of California, Irvine, USA)</div>
<div dir="auto">- Jennifer Simonjan (Technology Innovation Institute (TII), UAE)</div>
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