-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [tciin] The First International Workshop on Recent Advances in WBANs Design and Deployment,for Real-time and Healthcare Applications (RA-WERHA 2014) Datum: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 14:55:32 +0100 Von: Kacimi Rahim kacimi@irit.fr An: tciin.isat@u-bourgogne.fr

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The First International Workshop on Recent Advances in WBANs Design and Deployment for Real-time and Healthcare Applications (RA-WERHA 2014) (http://csserver.ucd.ie/~sdjahel/RA-WERHA2014/main.html) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

To be held in conjunction with The 39th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Sep. 8-11, 2014, Edmonton, Canada -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

SCOPE

The recent advances in wireless sensing technology have led to the emergence of a wide range of applications in different domains such as medical, sports, consumer electronics, social networking, and enterprise usage. E-health is recognized as the most important and promising among these applications for its potential for health monitoring of chronic illnesses, lifesaving in emergency situations, and its ability to provide round the clock healthcare to rural and disadvantaged areas. Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are the key enabler of remote and in-hospital health monitoring and are expected to revolutionize the health and real-time body monitoring industry.

WBAN technology has quickly attracted a lot of attention from researchers, practitioners and clinicians as well as mobile health related data managers. The main objective of WBAN is to provide cost-effective, flexible, and secure use of biotelemetry information and communication technologies to support both medical and non-medical applications. This technology enables ambient assisted living by providing more freedom to the elderly, disabled, and chronic illness sufferers. Moreover, it can be rapidly deployed in emergency and disaster situations facilitating faster and more accurate remote diagnosis of victims. WBAN technology unleashes the possibilities and potentials for personalized medicine which promises to revolutionize healthcare that will have a significant societal and economic impact and improve the citizens’ quality of life, particularly in future smart cities. However, WBAN applications present several challenges for the research community including: passive non-intrusive and power utilisation design issues, security and reliability with regards to the integrity of the acquired biotelemetry data and the real-time transmission of the monitored data using QoS aware techniques. Moreover, new emerging applications, which consider critical flows, are gaining more and more popularity in various activity domains.

This workshop seeks to bring together leading academic and industrial researchers, practitioners, and clinicians to identify and discuss the major technical challenges and recent results related to WBANs based medical and non-medical applications. All are welcome to present and share their latest research findings, ideas, simulation tools and prototype test-beds at the 2014 RA-WERHA workshop.

WORKSHOP TOPICS

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Wearable and body sensor networks - Wireless biotelemetry sensor technologies - Emerging eHealth applications - Health monitoring, traffic characterization, and management - Future Network/Communications Infrastructures and Architectures for Healthcare - Energy Saving for Long Time Monitoring - Pervasive and ubiquitous computing on eHealth - MAC and Routing protocols design for WBANs - Practical Applications of e-Health - Intra and Inter WBAN communications - Storage and Display devices for eHealth - Telemedicine and mobile telemedicine - Distributed storage of WBANs data - Interference mitigation techniques in WBANs - QoS-mapping from Application level to Network and MAC levels - Cross-layer Designs for WBANs - QoS-oriented dynamic reconfiguration in WBANs - M-healthcare mobile social networks - Fault tolerant routing techniques in WBANs - Experimental prototypes and test-beds - Security and privacy concerns in WBANs

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IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline April 7, 2014 Acceptance notification May 30, 2014 Camera-ready version June 30, 2014

GENERAL CHAIRS Soufiene Djahel, University College Dublin, Ireland Rahim Kacimi, Paul Sabatier University, France John Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Nikki Cranley, University College Dublin, Ireland Amit Pande, University of California Davis, USA André-Luc Beylot, INPT/ENSEEIHT, France

PUBLICITY CHAIR Riadh Dhaou, INPT/ENSEEIHT, France

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE TBD