[Tccc] IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI) Special Issue on "Emerging Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) for Ubiquitous Healthcare"
Honggang Wang
hwang1atumassd.edu
Mon Jun 3 21:11:52 EDT 2013
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)
hwa... at umassd.edu
Athanasios V. Vasilakos
Univ. of Western Macedonia (Greece)
vasil... at ath.forthnet.gr
Majid Sarrafzadeh
Univ. of California, Los Angeles (USA)
ma... at cs.ucla.edu
Chenyang Lu
Washington University in St. Louis (USA)
l... at cse.wustl.edu
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Please read these guidelines thoroughly before submitting your manuscript
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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 (hwa... at umassd.edu)
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