[Tccc] CALL FOR PAPERS - IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine - Special Issue on Wireless Networking for e-Health Applications

Hamid Sharif-Kashani hamidsharifatunl.edu
Tue Nov 27 11:31:53 EST 2012



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CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine  

Special Issue on Wireless Networking for e-Health Applications
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The confluence of electronics miniaturization, information proliferation in 
healthcare, and novel concepts for energy efficiency and energy scavenging, has 
pushed the application of Mobile Wireless Networks, such as Wireless Sensor 
Networks (WSN) and - perhaps more importantly so - Wireless Body Area Networks 
(WBAN) from the realm of theoretical exploration into healthcare reality. This 
advance heralds in a new era for patient monitoring, medical procedures, 
patient status awareness, outpatient treatment, and a plethora of other areas 
in modern healthcare. 

Developments in component miniaturization of electronics and sensing devices, 
advances in low-power wireless communication, and the arrival of energy 
harvesting have led to the development of ultra-low power wireless 
communication and sensing devices that are ideally suited for mobile healthcare 
applications. These devices can be installed in medical facilities and 
equipment, or worn directly on a patient's body, allowing for real-time data 
acquisition, data fusion, reporting, and alerting from a plethora of sources. 
This allows for an unprecedented level of insight into a patient's health, with 
a similarly high level of fidelity of the collected data that in many cases is 
sufficient to allow biometric identification of an individual.

With the advent of these new e-Health applications and their associated 
requirements and constraints, many vital topics of research need to be explored 
to provide robustness, security, responsiveness, and longevity of the wireless 
network and patient health information. This special issue focuses on the 
state-of-the-art in wireless networking for e-Health applications, associated 
technical and regulatory challenges, as well as exploring deployments and 
implementations in real-world applications.

The topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to:
 
- Applications of Wireless Networks in e-Health
- Real-World e-Health environments from design to operation - experiences, 
problems, and insights 
- Cross-Layer Design for e-Health applications 
- The PHY Layer of WSN, WBAN, and other e-Health Wireless Networks
- MAC and Routing in e-Health Wireless Networks
- Privacy, Security and Trust for e-Health applications
- Biometrics using WBANs and its applications
- Ensuring Energy Efficiency
- Energy Harvesting for low-power wireless networking in e-Health applications
- RF Interference and Coexistence
- Mobility in e-Health applications
- Modeling, Simulation, and Performance Evaluation for e-Health technologies
- Collaborative, Opportunistic, and Cognitive Wireless Technology in e-Health
- Trends, Future Applications and Research Challenges for Wireless Networks in 
e-Health
- Regulatory Challenges and Commercialization of e-Health solutions
- Data Collection, Data Storage, Data Sharing, and Cloud Services for e-Health
- Analysis of e-Health products for compliance, security, performance

 
Manuscript Submission
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Authors are invited to submit original scientific articles for review. Only 
original papers that have not been published or submitted for publication 
elsewhere will be considered. Papers should be tutorial in nature to help 
non-expert readers gain a good understanding of the topic. The papers should 
also discuss recent advances and future research topics. For further details, 
please refer to "Submission Guidelines" in IEEE Wireless Communications 
Magazine website at: 
http://www.comsoc.org/wirelessmag/paper-submission-guidelines. Authors must 
follow the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine guidelines for preparation of 
the manuscript and submit it via Manuscript Central 
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ieee-wcm, selecting "Wireless Networking for 
e-Health Applications" as the topic.


Submission Schedule
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Manuscript Submission: January 11, 2013 
Notification of Acceptance: April 1, 2013 
Final Manuscripts Due: July 1, 2013 
Publication Date: August, 2013


Guest Editors
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Hamid Sharif
Director, Advanced Telecommunications Engineering Laboratory University of 
Nebraska - Lincoln, USA
email: hsha... at unl.edu 

Michael Hempel
Associate Director, Advanced Telecommunications Engineering Laboratory 
University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA
email: mhemp... at unl.edu 

Bernd Blobel
Director, eHealth Competence Center
University of Regensburg Medical Center, Germany
email: bernd.blo... at klinik.uni-regensburg.de

Thomas Michael Bohnert
Director, ICCLab
Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
email: thomas.bohn... at zhaw.ch 

Ali Khoynezhad
Director, Thoracic Aortic Surgery
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
email: ali.khoynez... at cshs.org 




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