Workshop Description: Military communications and networking leverage information from a wide range of sources to support a wide range of applications. The performance of these applications depends in part on the properties of the information used to make these decisions, including but not limited to the recency of the information, the relative applicability of the information to the application, and the utility of the information to benefit the application. Fundamental understanding of these quantities will enable full stack cross-layer network optimization to handle the big data management problem in constrained military communication environments. These ideas have been studied in the research community through the interrelated concepts of Value of Information (VoI), Age of Information (AoI), and Quality of Information (QoI). These findings are used to understand and control these networked systems particularly in resource-challenged environments.
We invite technical papers including recent research results, works in progress, and vision papers on the concepts of Age of Information (AoI), Value of information (VoI), and Quality of Information (QoI) and their implications on military communications and networks in the following topics:
- Theory and Analysis: AoI/VoI/QoI and Game Theory, Control Theory, Machine Learning
- Networking: Tactical Edge Applications, Empirical Studies on Networked Applications, Network Monitoring, Cross-Layer Design, Distributed Computing, IoT
- Communications: Goal Oriented Communications, Channel State Information, Source and Channel Coding, Information Theory, Semantic communications
- Cybersecurity: Intrusion Detection, Information Provenance, User/Device Authentication
Workshop Chairs:
Clement Kam, U.S Naval Research Laboratory
Kevin Chan, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
