*IEEE ICC 2014 2nd Workshop on Emerging BAN Technologies *

*www.bodyareanetworking.com <http://www.bodyareanetworking.com/>*


*http://www.ieee-icc.org/2014/programWorkshops.html
<http://www.ieee-icc.org/2014/programWorkshops.html>*

*Call for Papers:*

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have been recognised as a key
technology to enable remote-health monitoring. Furthermore, WBANs are
envisioned to transform the health industry by significantly reducing
health care costs and providing independence and freedom to the elderly and
disabled. In parallel to applications in health, WBANs have a diverse range
of applications in a number of fields, such as
sport, entertainment and
social networking. This workshop aims to bring together leading researchers
in the area of Wireless Body Area Networking (WBAN) to present cutting edge
research and developments with respect to WBAN challenges. The workshop
will have two major objectives: The first objective is to present current
state-of-art in terms of the development of real test-bed and devices for
various scenarios in WBANs. This includes intra, inter-body and end-to-end
networking scenarios where a complete prototype has been developed. We are
also interested to see applications beyond medical – such as clothing,
entertainment, consumer electronics and enterprise usages. The second
objective is to present current WBAN communication related research and
development in PHY, MAC, routing models and routing protocols that address
challenges such as energy efficiency, reliability and security.

The workshop will also
include an opening keynote presentation by a
distinguished researcher in the area of WBANs.

*Topics of Interest*

The workshop seeks contribution from authors with original (previously
unpublished and currently not under-review) research and results in the
area of WBANs. The work may include the development of new: algorithms,
theoretical models and analysis, protocols and test-beds. The specific
topics include (but not limited to):

   - Antenna Design and modelling for On-body and In-body WBANs
   - Physical layer models including advanced channel and propagation
   modelling.
   - Radio Technologies and models for WBANs.
   - MAC layer protocols.
   - Resource allocation.
   - Power management.
   - Energy efficiency and harvesting.
   - Interference mitigation.
   - Intra and Inter WBAN communications.
   - Localisation and tracking.
   - Protocols for Heterogeneous
WBAN Scenarios.
   - Routing and Addressing.
   - Reliability and Fault-Tolerance.
   - Cloud-based Management and Monitoring for WBANs.
   - Applications for WBANs.
   - Test-bed and early experimental results.
   - Simulation modelling and tools for WBANs
   - Security issues in WBANs.




*   General Chair:*

Mehran Abolhasan (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)

Mehran.abolhasan@uts.edu.au

*Organising Committee:*

Mehran Abolhasan (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)

Abbas Jamalipour (University of Sydney, Australia)

Justin Lipman (Intel IT Labs China)

Jia-Liang Lu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

David Smith (NICTA, Australia)

*       Technical Program Committee*

        Mehran Abolhasan (UTS, Australia)

        Eryk Dutkiewicz (MQ, Australia)

        Daniel Franklin
(UTS, Australia)

        Abbas Jamalipour (Usyd, Australia)

       Minseok Kim (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

       Justin Lipman (Intel IT Labs, China)

       Jia-Liang Lu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

       Huanbang Li (NICT, Japan)

       Wei Ni (CSIRO, Australia)

       Farzad Safaei (UoW, Australia)

       Kandeepan Sithamparanathan (RMIT, Australia)

       David Smith (NICTA, Australia)

       Vijay Sivaraman (UNSW, Australia)

       Yong-Mei Sun (BUPT, China)

       Fabrice Theoleyre, (CR CNRS)

       Mehmet R. Yuce (Monash, Australia)



If you wish to have your paper considered for this Workshop, please go to
EDAS and click on the workshop link to submit your paper. Workshop papers
will undergo the same peer-review process, page limits and formatting as
other papers submitted to
the IEEE ICC 2014. To be published in the IEEE
ICC 2014 Workshop Proceedings and IEEE Xplore®, an author of an accepted
workshop paper is required to register for the workshop and the paper must
be presented at the workshop by an author of that paper, unless the
Workshop Chair grants permission for a substitute presenter. Non-refundable
Workshop registration fees must be paid prior to uploading the final IEEE
formatted, publication-ready version of the workshop paper to EDAS.

*Important Dates*

   - 15 December 2013: Paper submission deadline on EDAS
   - 20 February 2014: Paper Acceptance Notification
   - 15 March 2014: Camera Ready submission


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