Workshop Program:

Keynote 1: 

Prof. Ismail Guvenc, North Carolina State University, USA

Title: AERPAW and Its Digital Twin for Supporting AI Research with Autonomous Vehicle Networks 

Keynote 2: 

Prof. David Gesbert, EURECOM, France

Title: Learning and Sensing in the Sky with UAV-aided 6G Networks

The list of paper presentations is as follows:

Session 1 (From 9:00 to 10:30), sorted based on the order of presentation (20 minutes each):

1. Control-Oriented Uplink and Downlink Co-design for Low-Latency Unmanned Operations, Xinran Fang and Wei Feng (Tsinghua University, China); Yunfei Chen (University of Durham, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Ning Ge (Tsinghua University, China).

2. Goal-oriented SemanticCommunication in Bandwidth-constrained MARL, Yang Su (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yali Du (King College London, China); Yansha Deng (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)).

3. UAV-Assisted Coverage Hole Detection Using Reinforcement Learning in Urban Cellular Networks, Mushfiqur Rahman and Ismail Güvenç (North Carolina State University, USA); David Ramirez (DOCOMO Innovations Inc., USA); Chau-Wai Wong (North Carolina State University, USA).

4. First Results on UAV-aided User Localization Using ToA and OpenAirInterface in 5G NR, Omid Esrafilian and Rakesh Mundlamuri (EURECOM, France); Florian Kaltenberger (Eurecom, France); Raymond Knopp (Institut Eurecom, France); David Gesbert (Eurecom Institute, France).

Session 2 (From 13:30 to 15:30), sorted based on the order of presentation (20 minutes each):

1. Introducing a 6G-Enabled Multi-Connectivity Robotic Teleoperation Platform, Eric Mittag (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany); Robin Klose (Technische Universität Darmstadt & Secure Mobile Networking Lab, Germany); Jan Herbst, Matthias Rüb, Jan Petershans and Christian König (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany); Matthias Hollick (Technische Universität Darmstadt & Secure Mobile Networking Lab, Germany); Hans D. Schotten (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany).

2. Advancing Collaborative Research in Communication and Robotics: Insights from Experiments in a Remote Experience Center, Dong Yang (Technical University of Munich & Chair of Media Technology, Germany); Adam Janes, Jan Danek and Praveen Gorla (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic); Xiao Xu (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Zdenek Becvar (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic); Eckehard Steinbach (Technische Universität München, Germany).

3. Decomposition and Efficient Learning for Adaptive Multi-Mission AUVs Collaboration in UWSNs, Ruikai Wen and Jiarun Tang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China); Juan Tu (Wuhan Maritime Communication Institution, China); Wei Liu and Jing Xu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China).