IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

CALL FOR PAPERS

Wireless and Pervasive Communications for Healthcare

Wireless and Pervasive Communications for Healthcare, a new and growing interdisciplinary field, calls for innovation in information and communications technology to facilitate reliable, comprehensive, and high quality heathcare. Advances in networking infrastructure as well as middleware are vital to delivering telemedicine services regardless of a patient's physical location. In-home care for elderly persons is costly and can require sensors, wireless monitoring devices, and networking infrastructure and middleware to automatically contact emergency services. Healthcare is motivating unique basic research challenges in wireless and pervasive communications due to requirements for safe signal propagation characteristics, low network latency, low packet loss, high quality image and video transmission, and the need for safe, secure, and dependable operation. The goal of this issue is to report on cutting-edge research in communications for healthcare. Basic research papers are solicited, but papers on systems integration or deployment will also be considered. We seek papers that describe original and unpublished contributions, and that reflect those aspects of communications research for healthcare which are distinctly different from communications research in general.

Possible topics include:

. New Network architectures for wireless telemedicine

. Unique wireless network research issues to support healthcare applications

. Regionally-lossless and near-lossless coding for medical images

. Unique middleware for enabling medical applications

. Equipping ambulances with wireless and sensor networks

. E-surgery using large bandwidth connections

. Mobile and wearable technologies for next generation drug trials

. Organic Computing for Healthcare Networks

. Remote tactile sensors for remote diagnosis

. Actuators and prompters for rehabilitation and behavior modification

. Sensors and mobile devices for continuous patient monitoring

. Cyber-physical systems for patient monitoring

. Sensor networks for hospitals, operating rooms, elderly monitoring

. Autonomic Sensor Networks for Healthcare

Prospective authors should follow the IEEE J-SAC manuscript format described in the Information for Authors under http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/. Authors MUST submit their manuscripts through the EDAS peer review website.

Submission deadline: July 30, 2008

Acceptance Notification: Nov 15, 2008

Final Manuscript due: Jan 15, 2009

Publication: 2nd quarter 2009

Guest editors:

Athanasios V. Vasilakos

Department of Informatics with applications in Biomedicine,

UniversityofCentral Greece,

35100,Lamia,Greece,

vasilako@ath.forthnet.gr

Hsiao-Hwa Chen

Institute of Communications Engineering

National Sun Yat-Sen University

Taiwan 804, hshwchen@ieee.org

Hussein Mouftah

School of Information Technology and Engineering

University of Ottawa,

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5,,mouftah@site.uottawa.ca

Ibrahim Habib

Department of Electrical Engineering

City College and Graduate School

City University of New York

Convent Avenue at 140th Street

New York, NY 10031, hab mailto:habib@ccny.cuny.edu ib@ccny.cuny.edu

Kevin Montgomery

National Biocomputation Center

701A Welch Road, Suite 1128

Stanford, CA 94305

kevin@cohiba.stanford.edu

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