-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Fwd: IEEE Communications Magazine Special Issue: Wireless TechnologyAdvances and Challenges for Telemedicine (deadline approach: June 15, 2005)] Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 10:19:37 -0400 From: Heather Yu heathery@research.panasonic.com To: multicomm list multicomm@comsoc.org

Dear All, Could you please alert this special issue to your Multimedia Communications TC members? Thanks. --Nirwan

Wireless Technology Advances and Challenges for Telemedicine

Background

Telemedicine employs telecommunications to provide medical information and services via secured communication channels. Telemedicine systems can utilize well established and developing wireless technologies and standards such as various Wi-Fi based networks for the reliable delivery of medical information and provision of life-saving services. A wide range of medical applications can be supported by technological advancements in wireless communication systems in conjunction with biosensors. These systems often operate in harsh outdoor environments, especially when accidents are often caused by heavy rainfall, where the wireless communication link can be severely affected by various conditions. Under any situation, they must operate reliably at all times in order to support mission-critical services. Such diverse range of services can only be reliably supported by having the appropriate quality assurance methodology and information security in place. As a result, advancements in wireless networking technology provide a vital link to enhancing telemedicine services. Scope of Contributions We solicit papers covering various aspects of telemedicine system including, but not limited to, the following:

* Wearable medical devices and sensors * Reliability and quality assurance for telemedicine * Optimization of various stages of communications systems, such as source coding and channel coding, for telemedicine * Medical data coding and compression * Biometrics for telemedicine * Standards activities in support of telemedicine * Security/privacy issues in sensor networks and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) for telemedicine

Papers should be of tutorial nature or contain state-of-the-art research and development materials. Authors must follow the IEEE Communications Magazine guidelines regarding the manuscript format. For further details, please find information for authors at the IEEE Communications Magazine website at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html. Papers will be submitted through Manuscript Central at: http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/. Choose "February 2006/Wireless Technology Advances and Challenges for Telemedicine" from the Topic or Series drop down menu.

Tentative Schedule Manuscript Submission: June 15, 2005 Acceptance Notification: September 1, 2005 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2005 Publication: February 2006

Guest Editors

Nirwan Ansari Advanced Networking Lab Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering New Jersey Institut of Technology University Heights Newark, NJ 07102, USA Phone: +1-973-596-3670 Fax: +1-973-596-5680 Email: Nirwan.Ansari@njit.edu

Bernard Fong School of Engineering Auckland University of Technology Private Bag 92006 Auckland 1020 New Zealand Phone: +64-9-917-9999 Ext. 5345 Fax: +64-9-917-9973 Email: bfong@ieee.org

Yuan-ting Zhang Department of Electronic Engineering Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin NT, Hong Kong Phone: +852-2609-8459 Fax: +852-2603-5558 Email: ytzhang@ee.cuhk.edu.hk