The RAIN4C workshop is organized in conjunction with the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS 2025)
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.
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Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not currently under review elsewhere. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum length of 6 single-spaced, double-column pages using 10pt fonts on 8.5 in x 11 in paper, including all figures, tables, and references, in PDF format. Authors must use the Manuscript Templates for IEEE Conference Proceedings. Reviewing will be single-blind, i.e., authors can keep their names on their submitted paper. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by IEEE and will be presented at the conference. For all papers, IEEE reserves the right to exclude the paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference.
For each accepted paper to be published, at least one author is required to register and attend the conference. The paper must be presented by an author listed on the paper. Substitute presenters, due to unforeseen circumstances or verifiable excuses, must be authorized in advance by the TPC Chairs. Unauthorized substitute presentations will result in the paper not being added to the IEEE digital archive of the conference proceedings. We also strongly encourage the authors to apply for a visa, if needed, at their earliest convenience.
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