[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
Wed May 8 21:29:48 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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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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