Internet of Unmanned Things (IoUT) and Mission-based Networking

Chaker Abdelaziz Kerrache is an associate professor at the department of Computer Science, University of Laghouat, Algeria. He is currently the head of the Informatics and Mathematics Laboratory (LIM) and the manager of the Business Incubator at the University of Laghouat. He received his MSc. degree in computer science in 2012, and his Ph.D. degree in computer science in 2017, both at the University of Laghouat, Algeria. In 2013, he joined the Informatics and Mathematics Laboratory (LIM) as a research assistant and the Computer Networks Group (GRC) in 2015 as a visiting PhD student. His research activity is related to trust and risk management, secure multi-hop communications, vehicular networks, Named Data Networking (NDN), Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), and Brain-to-Computer Interface (BCI).

Carlos Miguel Tavares De Araujo Cesariny Calafate is a Full Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) since December 2018 in the area of Computer Architecture and Technology, and his research focuses on Communication Networks. He has been teaching at the School of Informatics since 2004. As a full-time professor at the School of Informatics, he has always been teaching courses in the Computer Networks area. As proof of his quality as a teacher, in 2017 he received the Excellent Teacher Award by the Social Council of the UPV and the Valencian Government. In terms of research activity, he has two "sexenios": Periods 2005-2010, and 2011-2016. In 2014, his group received the best research group award (UPV). He has led different national, regional and local research projects. He is currently involved in the SmartLagoon European project, and the SETMAN national project (RTI2018-096384-B-I00), among others. He has participated in the scientific committee of more than 300 conferences sponsored by IEEE, ACM and IFIP. Among others, he has been TPC Chair of ICCCN 2018, DS-RT 2019/2020, IFIP Wireless Days 2013 and ICT-DM 2018, Workshops Chair of the CCNC Conference in 2016 and 2017, and General Chair of DS-RT 2021, ICCCN 2020, INSERT-IoT 2019, Goodtechs 2017, ICCNA 2017, and DroNet 2018, among others. He is currently an associate editor of several scientific journals including: Elsevier Vehicular Networks, MDPI Sensors, Mobile Information Systems, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, MDPI Electronics, IET Smart Cities, IET Networks, MDPI Drones, etc. He is ranked among the World's Top 2% Scientists, and also among the top 100 Spanish researchers in the Computer Science & Electronics field. He is a founding member of the IEEE SIG on Big Data with Computational Intelligence and the IEEE SIG on Green Internet of Vehicles. To date he has published about 460 papers in journals, books and conferences, including 120 articles in international journals with JCR impact index (70 in Q1), and 213 articles in international conferences (mainly IEEE, ACM and IFIP), 50 of them classified as CORE A/GRIN class 2.

Introduction.- An Overview on IoUT and UAV-assisted applications.- Mobility, traffic models and network management for IoUT.- Energy efficiency in IoUT.- Security, privacy, and trust in IoUT.- Mobile edge computing in IoUT.- Performance, scalability, reliability and efficiency of Inter-UAV and UAV-to-X communications.- Machine-learning techniques for IoUT.- Inter-UAV communications over future internet architectures.- 5G and beyond for IoUT.- Explainable artificial intelligence and semantic representation and reasoning for IoUT.- Testbeds and validation of IoUT solutions.- Conclusion.