1st IEEE MASS Workshop on Reliable Aerial and satellIte Networks: joint Communication, Computation, Caching for Critical scenarios (RAIN4C)
October 6–8, 2025 | Chicago, USA
Website: https://site.unibo.it/rain4c/en/rain4c-workshop

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


Submission Guidelines:
All submissions should be written in English with a maximum length of 9 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. Based on TPC reviews and discussions, some papers may be accepted as 5-page short papers or 2-page posters in addition to the regular 9-page papers. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by IEEE.

Paper submission website is available in EDAS: https://edas.info/N33816

Important Dates
Full Paper Submissions Due: Monday, June 30, 2025
Paper Acceptance Notification: Friday, July 31, 2025
Camera-ready Version: Friday, August 7, 2025

Workshop Co-Chairs
Giovanni Interdonato, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy
Sara Pizzi, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Angelo Trotta, University of Bologna, Italy