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CFP Special Issue on Medical Applications for Wireless Sensor Networks (http://lab405.fesb.hr/jcomss/index.php?call=1)

JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS (http://lab405.fesb.hr/ jcomss/index.php)

Submission deadline: June 1, 2008

Guest Editors: Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal (joeljr@ieee.org) Farid Farahmand, Central Connecticut State University, USA (farahmandfar@ccsu.edu) Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France (lorenz@ieee.org)

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) play an important role in medical diagnosis and patient monitoring. New wireless sensors and medical devices continue to be developed to create safer health care environments. The rapid growth of using such devices and technologies in medical fields has created new opportunities and applications. However, enormous challenges still remain to be resolved in order to develop flexible, reliable, secure, and power-efficient networks suitable for medical needs. High-quality, original, unpublished contributions will be considered for the issue. Authors wishing to submit papers should send an electronic version (PDF or postscript file only) with a separate cover letter containing the paper title, authors with affiliations, and up to 200 words abstract, to one of the Guest Editors.

Topics include, but not limited to, the following:

• Biomedical Sensors and Systems • Biotelemetry • Biosurveillance Systems and Applications • Body Sensor Networks • Clinical Biofeedback • Communications Protocols and Architectures • e-Health • Embedded Computing Systems • Medical Signal Acquisition, Analysis and Processing • MicroElectricoMechanical Systems (MEMS) • Mobile Applications • Modeling and Simulation • Performance Evaluation • Real-time Systems • Security and Privacy • Telemedicine • Weareable Sensors and Systems • Wireless Sensor Networks

Best regards, Joel Rodrigues

__________________________________________________ Joel Rodrigues PhD, MSc, Eng, IEEE Senior Member.

Networks and Multimedia Group, Institute of Telecommunications Department of Informatics, University of Beira Interior Rua Marques d'Avila e Bolama 6201-001 Covilha, Portugal