[telco-cg] Extended CFP: IEEE VTM Special Issue on Advanced Aerial Mobility - December 1st, 2020

[Javier Manuel Gozalvez Sempere]

CALL FOR PAPERS - IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine Special Issue on
Advanced Aerial Mobility
(Impact Factor: 7.921)

Extended submission deadline (final): 1st  December, 2020

Recent advances in unmanned aviation opened new opportunities for the
aviation industry. Encouraged by the successful demonstrations of projects
such as the U-Space and Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management
(UTM), the aviation industry around the world is moving towards more
advanced applications of air mobility including services such as air taxi
and air ambulance. At the same time, the academic research community is
finding new challenges to address in high-density, low altitude flying UASs.

Advanced aerial mobility refers to “transformative and disruptive new
airborne technology supporting an ecosystem designed to transport people
and things to locations not traditionally served by current modes of air
transportation, including both rural and the more challenging and complex
urban environments”, according to the National Academies Press. The
platforms that are being developed for advanced aerial mobility
applications are typically short-range, runway independent, and highly
automated vehicles such as the electric powered Vertical Takeoff and
Landing (eVToL) aircraft. Along with new platforms, there are new
developments emerging in other areas including vertiport design, software,
sensors, alternative energy generation and storage solutions. Community
testbeds and service frameworks (e.g., Aerial Experimentation Research
Platform for Advanced Wireless and U-Space framework for safe and secure
access to airspace) are being developed for experimentation of advanced
aerial mobility applications around the world.

New challenges are predicted in areas including airspace operations,
traffic management, vehicle health integrity monitoring, and human-autonomy
teaming, to name a few. In parallel, there is a need for identifying
efficient strategies for micro-weather modeling and prediction, collision
avoidance in close encounters, detection of uncooperative and rogue
aircraft, and geofencing and GPS-denied operation strategies among others.
Advances are also required in communication, navigation, and surveillance
domains. Airborne communication options ranging from LTE and 5G networks to
satellite links, as well as direct and over-the-air radio frequency links
using either licensed or unlicensed frequency spectrum need to be
investigated.

This special issue aims to share the progress and efforts being made by
researchers, practitioners, and regulators towards advanced aerial
mobility. This call solicits novel concepts that are currently being
pursued or transformative ideas envisioned for this emerging area of
research. Original submissions that discuss research, development,
experimentation, and evaluation strategies that support advanced aerial
mobility are encouraged within the following scope or related areas:
- Autonomous air space operations: Flight planning, scheduling, and tracking
- Airborne communications: 5G and beyond-5G cellular, satellite, and radio
frequency and other (e.g., optical) communication support for UAS, for both
air-ground (AG) and air-air (AA)
- Aerial platforms:  Aerodynamics, power, propulsion, energy efficiency
- Command, control, navigation, and surveillance: Aircraft identification,
beyond visual line of sight and beyond radio line of sight communication,
and navigation in GPS denied areas
- Remote Identification (ID) support for UAS using low-power wide-area
network technologies: Theoretical/simulation results, analysis, and
experiments with technologies such as LoRa, Sigfox, WiFi, Bluetooth 4.X and
5.X, NB-IoT, and ASTM standards for remote ID
- Multi-vehicle cooperation: Collision avoidance and conflict management
and resolution
- Traffic Management: Geofencing, air corridors, and trajectory design and
optimization
- Human-autonomy and teaming: Best practices and strategies for pilots to
interact with unmanned systems in the same air space
- Noise mitigation: Acoustic modeling, measurement, and control strategies
- Weather Prediction and Modeling: Prediction and modelling of
micro-weather at low altitudes
- Computing paradigms: Edge computing, fog computing and cloud computing
support for UAS, including machine-learning (ML) and artificial
intelligence (AI) based approaches
- Experimental Platforms: Experimental results and proof-of-concept
prototypes related to advanced aerial mobility
- Security: Communications, navigation, and surveillance security,
including techniques to ensure both physical layer security and
higher-level security

Submitted papers should contain state-of-the-art research or technical
material presented in a tutorial or survey style. All manuscripts must
adhere to the IEEE VTM guidelines at
http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtmagazine/submission.php. Authors should submit a
PDF version of their manuscript to (select Special Issue when submitting)
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/vtm-ieee

Important Dates
Extended submission deadline (final): 1st  December, 2020
First Round Reviews by: 12 February 2021
Second Round Submissions by: 29 March 2021
Second Round Reviews by: 15 May 2021
Final articles received by: 25 May 2021
Publication: September 2021

Guest Editors
Kamesh Namuduri (University of North Texas, USA)
Uwe-Carsten Fiebig (Institute of Communications and Navigation of DLR,
Germany)
David W. Matolak (University of South Carolina, USA)
Helka-Liina Määttänen (Ericsson, Finland)
Ismail Guvenc (North Carolina State University, USA)
K.V.S Hari (Indian Institute of Science, India)
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