13.01.2010 CNI organizes Globecom Workshop "Wireless Networking for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles"

The Communication Networks Institute of TU Dortmund jointly organizes with the Aerospace Controls Laboratory of MIT the first workshop on "Wireless Networking for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles" at Globecom 2010. The availability of low-cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), such as unmanned quadrocopters and blimps, opens up the prospects of an entirely new class of Low Altitude Wireless Network Platforms, which are hosted at altitudes of up to a few hundred meters. These aerial networks allow on one hand new sensor applications like 3D-air-quality-measurements and on the other new navigational strategies that are based on inter-robot communication like swarming. The corresponding wireless network needs to provide highly reliable and low delay control links and data links for administering and managing UAVs and user/sensor/mission data respectively. At the same time, UAVs offer the capability to provide ad-hoc wireless networks, for example to facilitate temporary hot spots in case of public events and emergencies. In addition, UAV-based networks may be flexibly deployed to compensate network outages.

The workshop aims to share and discuss most recent results of various international research initiatives in the area of communication systems for aerial wireless networks. The focus of the workshop will be solely based on projects and research aiming at civilian applications. 

Important Dates                                                                                           Workshop Homepage:
Paper Submission Deadline: July 02, 2010                                           http://www.wnuav.org                 
Acceptance Notification: August 13, 2010
Camera Ready Version and Registration: August 31, 2010
Workshop Date: December 06 - 10, 2010   

26.10.2009 CNI organizes international workshop on OMNeT++

The 3rd International Workshop on OMNeT++ (OMNeT++ 2010) is a one day workshop to be held in conjunction with the Third International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools 2010). The workshop will take place in Malaga, Spain.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together OMNeT++ users and their tools, applications and ideas. It intends to provide a forum for presentations of recent developments and novel ideas in the broad context of network simulation with focus on OMNeT++. It will bring together researchers to focus on the important topics of integrating simulation models, coupling different simulation tools, providing better modeling approaches, and contributing to the active modeling and simulation community with respect to identifying some of the most promising candidate solution methods, architectures and techniques to address the various challenges of network simulation.

Important Dates

Workshop: March 16, 2010

22.09.2009 Two Best Paper Awards for CNI researchers

A new Method for speeding up the secure access of several aid organisations to a mobile emergency information system was successfully explored by Dipl.-Ing. T. Tran. It has been revealed on a renowned IEEE conference. The publication of Dipl.-Ing. Brian Niehöfer, already presented on an international satellite conference in July, deals with a new option for dynamic generation of highly updated mapmaterial, based on anonymised motion-profiles of mobilephone participants.

T. Tran, C. Wietfeld: Approaches for Optimizing the Performance of a Mobile SAML-based Emergency Response System, 13th International IEEE EDOC Conference, Mobile Technologies in Enterprise Computing Systems Workshop, Auckland, New Zealand, September 2009.

B. Niehoefer, R. Burda, C. Wietfeld, F. Bauer, O. Lüert: GPS Community Map Generation for Enhanced Routing Methods based on Trace-Collection by Mobile Phones, 1st International Conference on Advances in Satellite and Space Communications (SPACOMM), Colmar, July 2009.