-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI) Special Issue on "Emerging Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) for Ubiquitous Healthcare" Datum: Wed, 8 May 2013 21:29:18 -0400 Von: Honggang Wang hwang1@umassd.edu Antwort an: hwang1@umassd.edu An: tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS:

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI) Special Issue on

"Emerging Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) for Ubiquitous Healthcare"

Health monitoring of patients' vital signs over wireless body area networks (WBANs) provides an economical solution to rising costs in the healthcare system with real-time updates of medical records. The WBAN consisting of a set of mobile and small intercommunicating sensors is expected to significantly impact future healthcare services. On the other hand, many other techniques such as smartphones, cloud services and social networks have been widely deployed for many mobile applications and are offering a great opportunity to extend the functionalities of WBANs. The integration of WBANs with these promising techniques for ubiquitous healthcare applications will lead to interpretation of the broad concepts of telemedicine and m-health.

There are significant research challenges involving the development of protocols, platform, applications of WBANs, especially when wireless body sensors are either wearable or implanted into the human body and thus their resources and capacities are extremely limited. Many existing sensor network solutions are not applicable to WBANs. There are numerous research issues in WBANs related to interoperability, communication interference, security, mobility, energy, deployment, and costs, etc. In addition, there is a promising research trend for the integration of cloud computing with WBANs to provide ubiquitous and mobile healthcare services. Further, traditional solutions in WBANs have to be evolved with the emergence of new hardware and techniques such as smartphones and energy harvesting. For example, adopting energy harvesting techniques has led to the development of ultra-low power wireless communication and miniaturized sensors that are suited for m-health applications. New emphasis on the applications such as smart health and wellbeing will significantly speed up the wide deployment of WBANs and broaden their impact. It is a challenging task to develop more innovative health applications such as elder care, sports, military, or security. Extending the WBANs technology to new application domains can be supported by seamless and secure data communications between users, or between users and base stations with required quality of service (QoS). Therefore, it is critical to understand and develop WBANs from the perspective of applications, protocol and system. The specific focus of this special issue will be on the ubiquitous healthcare service impact and implications of emerging WBANs technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Security and privacy

* Network protocols and standardization for WBANs

* The integration of cloud computing with WBANs

* Data storage, distribution, and cloud services for WBANs

* Inter-WBANs communication interference mitigation

* Nano communication and nanotechnologies for WBANs

* Wearable computing

* Embedded medical sensor devices

* Cognitive radio techniques for WBANs

* Trends, future applications for WBANs

* Regulatory challenges and commercialization of WBANs

* Biometrics using WBANs and their applications

* Resource allocation and cross-layer design

* Hardware and testbed platforms for WBANs

* Social networks for WBANs

* Energy harvesting for low-power WBANs

* Modeling, simulations, and performance evaluations

* QoS of WBANs

* Innovative smart health and wellbeing applications

GUEST EDITORS

Honggang Wang

Univ. Massachusetts Dartmouth (USA)

hwang1@umassd.edu

Athanasios V. Vasilakos

Univ. of Western Macedonia (Greece)

vasilako@ath.forthnet.gr

Majid Sarrafzadeh

Univ. of California, Los Angeles (USA)

majid@cs.ucla.edu

Chenyang Lu

Washington University in St. Louis (USA)

lu@cse.wustl.edu

SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS

Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. As an author, you are responsible for understanding and adhering to our submission guidelines. You can access them at the IEEE Computer Society (http://www.computer.org) and IEEE engineering in Medicine& Biology Society (http://www.embs.org/) web sites. Please read these guidelines thoroughly before submitting your manuscript through the Manuscript Central (http://embs-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/). When submitting, authors are requested to choose "Emerging Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) for Ubiquitous Healthcare" in the manuscript type to indicate that the paper is intended for this special issue.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 15th June 2013

FIRST REVIEWS DUE: 15th August 2013

REVISED MANUSCRIPT DUE: 15th September 2013

FINAL DECISION: 30th September 2013

PUBLICATION: October-November 2013

Please address all other correspondence regarding this special issue to the Lead Guest Editor Dr. Honggang Wang (hwang1@umassd.edu)

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