Call for Papers for
Springer Mobile Networks and Applications Special Issue on
/"Wireless Technology for Pervasive Healthcare”/

Since the start of this new century, the proportion of seniors has
been increasing more rapidly than other age groups while the newborn
rate is steadily decreasing. This global aging problem demands an
increased focus on preparing pervasive healthcare systems and
applications deployed around users and capable of remotely caring
for them and improving their health and well-being anywhere anytime.
These systems and applications require a sophisticated integration of
microcircuit, medical sensing, and wireless and mobile technologies.
They largely benefit users by decreasing the dependability on special
caregivers and eventually reducing healthcare expenses through a more
efficient use of healthcare resources and an earlier detection of
life-threateningemergency situations. However, the realization of pervasive healthcare sets some additional critical requirements, e.g. realtimeness and fault-tolerance, and reliability, security and efficiency challenges compared with traditional hospital-based systems. Exploitation of Information and
Communications Technologies as well as Networking and Sensors
Technologies will enable cost-effective and efficient healthcare delivery,
capable to deal with physical and logical mobility of patients and
devices.
The focus of this call is on theory and applications of Wireless
Technologies towards the definition of the Next Generation Pervasive
Healthcare. Original, unpublished contributions are solicited.
Possible topics of interest include, but are certainly not limited to
the following:
* Wireless body area networks for remote healthcare monitoring
* Energy efficient sensing and communication for pervasive healthcare
* Reliable and fault-tolerant communications in pervasive healthcare
* Network protocols design and analysis for pervasive healthcare
* Data management and resource sharing for pervasive healthcare
* Mobile, social, context-aware computing for pervasive healthcare
* Integration of different wireless technologies for pervasive healthcare
* Remote diagnosis and patient management for pervasive healthcare
* Distributed multimedia services for pervasive healthcare
* Emergency detection and response for pervasive healthcare
* Trust, security, privacy, and QoS provisioning for pervasive healthcare
* System architectures, applications & prototypes for pervasive healthcare

DATES:
Submision deadline: Oct. 15th, 2012 (extended)
First round of review: Dec. 15th, 2012
Revision deadline: Feb. 15th , 2013
Author notification: Mar. 15th, 2013
Publication date: 2013

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
The submission website is https://www.editorialmanager.com/mone/, the article type to choose is "Wireless Technology for Pervasive Healthcare".
The instructions for authors concerning paper format, paper length, etc. can be found at http://www.springer.com/engineering/signals/journal/11036.

GUEST EDITORS:
Giancarlo Fortino, Univ. Calabria, Italy (g.fortino at unical.it)
Xu Li, Inria, France (xu.li at inria.fr)
Xiaodong Lin, UOIT, Canada (xiaodong.lin at uoit.ca)
Oscar Mayora, CREATE-NET, Italy (oscar.mayora at create-net.org)
Enrico Natalizio, INRIA, France (enrico.natalizio at inria.fr)
Mehmet Yuce, Monash Univ., Australia (mehmet.yuce at monash.edu)

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