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The 1st ACM International Workshop on Medical-grade Wireless Networks (WiMD 2009) In conjunction with MobiHoc 2009

New Orleans, LA, USA May 18, 2009

http://wireless.cs.uh.edu/WiMD09/

Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE

CALL FOR PAPER

To address the challenges facing pervasive deployment of wireless devices in medical environments, many research and engineering problems need to be resolved. Eventual working solutions involve efforts from hospital personnel, standard committees, federal agencies, IT industry and research community. This workshop is a forum for researchers and practitioner to exchange information regarding advancement in the state of the art and practices as well as to identify the emerging research topics and define the future of wireless health-care systems.

The technical program will consist of invited talks, paper presentations, and panel discussions. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

- Emerging hardware platforms in personal health-care - Spectrum sensing, device identification - User and measurement studies and evaluations of wireless devices/systems in medical environments - Dynamic spectrum management, resource management/provisioning for robust communication - Middleware and system architecture for medical device plug-n-play - Embedded computing, signal processing, and sensor information processing for wireless medical and health applications. - Methods for assuring efficient use of resources including energy for distributed wireless medical and health systems and networks. - Risk analysis, control and management - Real-Time networked medical device infrastructures - Verification and validation of wireless medical devices and systems

IMPORTANT DATES

Registration: February 21, 2009 Submission: Feb 27, 2009, 11:59pm EST Notification: March 27, 2009 Conference date: May 18, 2009

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

WiMD 2009 will only accept electronic on-line submissions. Detailed instructions can be found in the workshop web page. Accepted papers will be published by ACM. Simultaneous submissions to other conferences with published proceedings are not allowed.

GENERAL CHAIRs:

Jie Wu (Florida Atlantic University, USA)

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRs:

Rong Zheng, University of Houston, USA Xue Liu, McGill University, Canada

MORE INFORMATION:

http://wireless.cs.uh.edu/WiMD09/

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