Wi-DroIT 2025

Lucca, Italy

June 9 - June 11, 2025

Co-located with DCOSS 2025

Submission Link

Scope

Recently, the rapid development of Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, has highlighted a plethora of emergent applications such as infrastructure inspection and surveillance, smart agriculture, seek and rescue, parcel delivery, communications, and post-disaster recovery. In all these applications UAVs may coexist with ground Internet of Things (IoT) devices. For example, UAVs autonomously perform remote sensing relaying the collected data by the sensors. Additionally, one or more UAVs can collaborate to provide services that require efficient protocols where multiple objectives and constraints need to be considered.

For this workshop, we seek papers that combine the design of algorithms and testbed implementations to develop the theoretical foundations for UAVs as well as the synergies with IoT devices. The numerous emergent applications raised by IoT may require an interdisciplinary approach involving techniques from algorithm foundations and different areas, such as computer networks, artificial intelligence, concurrent, parallel, and distributed computing, security, digital signal, image, and sound processing.

Author Information

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on distributed sensor systems related to Wi-DroIT topics of interest. Please use the US letter size (8.5 x 11 in) standard IEEE conference LaTeX format or Microsoft Word template available here.

All submissions should be written in English and submitted as a full paper. Full papers should have a maximum of eight (8) printed pages including figures and references. Full papers are expected to describe fully developed ideas with a thorough evaluation. Note that Wi-DroIT does not follow the double-blind review policy. The names and affiliations of all the authors must be present in the submitted manuscript.

Topics of Interest

• Autonomous sensing via UAVs
• Topology monitoring with UAVs
• Remote sensing networks via UAVs
• Communication protocols of UAVs over IoT
• Modeling and analysis of UAVs over IoT
• Precision agriculture and UAVs
• High-altitude platform station

• Crops monitoring in agriculture
• Bugs monitoring in agriculture
• UAVs for environmental monitoring
• Autopilot and UAS autonomy
• UAVs path planning and scheduling
• Parcel delivery using UAVs
• Hierarchical aerial computing: collaboration of UAVs and HAP

• Cellular networks and UAVs
• Constrained and multi-objectives problems
• Sensors localization with UAVs
• UAVs tracking techniques
• Cooperative control of multiple UAVs
• Cyber-security communications and UAVs
• Flocking of multi-UAV

• Optimal UAV deployment strategies
• Test-beds and experimental results for UAVs
• Single UAV applications
• Multi-UAV applications
• Energy-efficient UAV communications
• Machine learning for UAV communications
• Multi-UAV cooperative edge computing

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: April 5th

Notification of Acceptance: May 4th

Camera Ready Deadline: May 9th

Committees

Workshop Chairs

Federico Corò - University of Padova, Italy
Arindam Khanda - Missouri S&T, USA
Debashisha Mishra - Université de Lorraine, France
Lorenzo Palazzetti - University of Perugia, Italy

Steering Committee

Enrico Natalizio - Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates
Cristina M. Pinotti - University of Perugia, Italy
Francesco Betti Sorbelli - University of Perugia, Italy

Program Committee

Publicity Chair

Web Chair

Lorenzo Palazzetti - University of Perugia, Italy