RAIN4C - Workshop

The RAIN4C workshop is organized in conjunction with the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS 2025)

Call for Papers

Ensuring network services in critical scenarios—such as post-disaster areas, remote rural regions, and maritime environments—is a fundamental challenge in modern wireless communications. Traditional terrestrial networks (TNs) often fail to provide reliable coverage in these settings, making the integration of non-terrestrial networks (NTNs), including UAV swarms, drone-assisted relays, and satellite constellations, essential for next-generation connectivity. 
As 6G evolves toward a three-dimensional (3D) network architecture, seamless orchestration of aerial, satellite, and terrestrial segments becomes crucial to overcoming limitations in coverage, latency, and computational capacity. The RAIN4C workshop will explore innovative strategies for joint communication, computation, and caching to enable resilient and adaptive NTN-based architectures, with a particular focus on UAV-assisted networking, drone-based edge computing, and satellite-enabled service continuity. 

Topics of Interest (including, but not limited to): 

  • Reliable NTN-based connectivity for post-disaster and remote scenarios 
  • Joint optimization of communication, computation, and caching in NTNs 
  • Edge-to-satellite continuum computation offloading for UAV-based networks 
  • Multi-layer caching strategies for latency reduction in NTN environments 
  • AI-driven resource allocation and orchestration in NTN-integrated 6G networks 
  • Cell-free massive MIMO, mmWave, and sub-THz communications for NTN 
  • Routing, mobility management, and energy-efficient UAV swarm coordination 
  • Security, privacy, and trust in aerial-satellite communications 
  • Experimental testbeds, real-world deployments, and performance evaluation

Important dates

  • Submission deadline: June 30, 2025
  • Notification: Friday, July 31, 2025
  • Camera ready: Friday, August 7, 2025
  • Presentation: TBD

Submit a paper

EDAS link: SUBMIT A PAPER

Committees

General Chairs

  • Giovanni Interdonato, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy
  • Sara Pizzi, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy
  • Angelo Trotta, University of Bologna, Italy

 

Technical Program Committee (to be completed)

  • Tomaso De Cola, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
  • Tommaso Foggi, University of Parma, Italy
  • Gino Masini, Ericsson Research, Sweden
  • Arcangela Rago, Politecnico di Bari, Italy

Program

(to be defined)